I promised you guys I would share a couple of photos I took at Lime Rock's Vintage Festival over Labor Day weekend. Feel free to submit your driver/car/year responses, but these aren't part of the "official" thread.
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I promised you guys I would share a couple of photos I took at Lime Rock's Vintage Festival over Labor Day weekend. Feel free to submit your driver/car/year responses, but these aren't part of the "official" thread.
And from the back...
You might enjoy this photo, too. It's something else watching these guys tackling the esses at Lime Rock perched way up high in their pre-WWII race cars! The first 3 cars in line are American champ cars from the 1930s. I think the last one in line is a Maserati grand prix car, but I could be wrong.
Mihai, it's still your turn...
champcarray - awesome pics!!
Sorry for the delay. I just came back from a hillclimbing event.
Since you were talking about the Atlantics, here's an Atlantics pic. The name of the driver would be enough.
Driver - Andrew BordinQuote:
Originally Posted by Mihai
Car - Swift 008.a-Toyota
Year- 2000
Very good! Your turn now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenixent
Nice photo of Andrews car. He did very well in the Atlantic with 5 wins in three seasons and finishing in the top 3 in points for those years.
New photo coming up.
Driver, Car, Year, & Track
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Sheldon Kinser
Indy 1981
Longhorn-Cosworth
The first race I ever went to :) (other than Riverside in West Memphis, AR (1/4 mile dirt)) :p :
You are Correct AM. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexamateo
Your Turn. :)
Here's the next one!
Dick Ferguson
somewhere 1984
Eagle-Cosworth
You got it Mihai!
The track is Long Beach and Dick was a DNQ for the weekend, you're up.
Damn, I'm getting that feeling again! That I can crack any picture. :p
Name both drivers please:
Max Papis
Reynard-Ford
Toronto
1999
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=208476
An interesting thread from another forum.
There's one more driver in the picture...Quote:
Originally Posted by Civic
Bryan Herta. =)
Yep, it's him! :up:
I want the info for both cars.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tanggarcia.jpg
"Tang" car is Luiz Garcia Reynard Ford, Other car is PJ Jones in a Swift. Year is 1999 and track is Long Beach(?)
You got PJ Jones and the year right. Track is wrong.
Dennis Vitolo @ Toronto 1999. I thought with Petrobras on the car the driver had to be Brazilian, but no.
Vitolo is the driver and Toronto is the track. But there's a bonus question! What model year is that Reynard? =)
Reynard 98I :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Civic
Correct, but it's still Alexamateo's turn!
I cannot seem to attach a photo (see Pino's announcement) If anyone has a direct link photo and wants to post something, please feel free to do so. :)
Since the forum is fixed now, I'll post the next one.
The usual info on both cars please.
Bumping this back to the top. Also, I found this on another forum and thought as a bonus to see if anybody can identify the people in the photo.
Zoomie, if you're out there, I hope you don't mind and thanks for those great old photos. :) :up:
Just finished up a project and see there was no takers on this. So I will give it a try. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexamateo
Drivers- A.J. Foyt Jr. and Roger Ward
Cars- Watson-Offy Roadster and Watson-Offy Rear Engine.
Year- 1964
Track- Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The people photo "bonus":
Looks like one of the Mickey Thompson "skate" cars with the Buick or Chevy motor...
I am going to guess it is Indy in 1963 and the kid in the car is Pancho Carter and one of the other guy is Duane Carter. Probably Mickey Thompson and I wonder if the mechanic is Grant King (don't even know if he worked oon those cars - just a hunch...).....
Everything is right except the track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenixent
Chris, You're correct, that is indeed a young Pancho Carter sitting in his dad's Mickey Thompson built rear engine cars in 1963. The mechanic in the photo is not identified, so I don't know who that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
TrentonQuote:
Originally Posted by Alexamateo
Some more info on the photo from another forum:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
Quote:
I found out from a person more intelligent than me that the guy who Duane has his arm around in the light colored sweater is Billy Krause.
Excerpt from an interesting interview with Krause:
THE BILL KRAUSE INTERVIEW by Willem Oosthoek
Quote:
WO: After Daytona 1963 Chevrolet closed the door but you still had Mickey’s Indianapolis program.
BK: The Indy cars constructed by Mickey had those little controversial 12 inch wheels and we tested them at a Firestone test track in Texas, a 7-mile oval in the middle of the desert. But that track did not offer enough high friction so we couldn’t find out much about the adhesion and handling characteristics of those tires. Firestone was nervous about their use and made real hard rubber compounds for them. It showed! When they let go during practice at Indy there was no warning. When I spun the car I had no clue. It was just gone, lost traction. Usually you have a little warning. It was zero. I was straight and I was sideways. I spun in turn 1 and ended up in turn 2, never touching the brakes. And I would not have hit anything if Roger McCluskey’s roadster hadn’t run into me.
WO: Nobody could qualify those cars. Graham Hill couldn’t. Masten Gregory couldn’t.
BK: Well actually Duane Carter did. But there was too much confusion in the team. Mickey had 6 cars entered. Three days in a row, when I was doing 200 mph on the back straightaway, the hot oil would come out and the wind would blow it in my face and goggles. I lost confidence. I didn’t feel comfortable. I probably could have qualified the car but I couldn’t have driven it with 32 other guys because I couldn’t tell where it was going. So I decided to pack up and go home to California. At that point I decided I should stick with making a living and pursue my business interests. I had lost my motivation. Indy changed my attitude. I did race after that but it was never the same.
Phoenix, It's Milwaukee. I had cropped the original down and if you could see it, you'd recognize it as Milwaukee. Why don't you go ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenixent
Thanks AM. :up: Didn't know that The Mile looked so green in the corners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexamateo
New photo coming up.
Driver, Car, Year, & Track
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