This is way OT and will ruin your Saturday "to do" plans
I apologize?in advance for being so way OFF TOPIC, but Sotheby's has released its catalogue for an upcoming classic car auction.? Some examples are below.? I would also note that there reproductions peppered throughout the catalogue, some of which are powered by electric?motors.
The link for the complete catalogue:
Bill Blaylock
-- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
I will be helping out at Oulton Park, Cheshire on August 17. Maybe I will see you there.
Dennis Mattish San Jose, CA -- Dennis Mattish
San Jose CA USA
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Re: Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
A "Spaghetti Offy" as Dad used to call them Smitty Houston
Nicely done ... with that Skinner Union injection!
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Everyone I know who's tried an Offy on the street was disenchanted ... felt suffered at low end, IIRC. Am I wrong?
IMHO, I'd like to see that with one of the nice >2L Fiat twin cams and a proper 5 speed ... with appropriate Webers ... but that's just me.
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Bob Storck in KCMO
-----Original Message----- From: < [email protected]> Sent: Aug 2, 2024 9:06 AM To: < [email protected]> Subject: Re: [RH] Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
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Looks like it's a 109 cu. inch?offy with Rileys?? ?A really neat car/engine combination.
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Bill Blaylock
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 6:12?AM Edward Dean Butler via <edeanbutler= [email protected]> wrote:
Look at the engine!
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E Dean Butler
Broughton Green. UK
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E. Dean Butler
Broughton Green UK
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Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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-- David Schmidt Highlands TX USA
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Re: Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
Nicely done ... with that Skinner Union injection!
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Everyone I know who's tried an Offy on the street was disenchanted ... felt suffered at low end, IIRC. Am I wrong?
IMHO, I'd like to see that with one of the nice >2L Fiat twin cams and a proper 5 speed ... with appropriate Webers ... but that's just me.
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Bob Storck in KCMO
-----Original Message----- From: < [email protected]> Sent: Aug 2, 2024 9:06 AM To: < [email protected]> Subject: Re: [RH] Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
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Looks like it's a 109 cu. inch?offy with Rileys?? ?A really neat car/engine combination.
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Bill Blaylock
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 6:12?AM Edward Dean Butler via <edeanbutler= [email protected]> wrote:
Look at the engine!
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E Dean Butler
Broughton Green. UK
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E. Dean Butler
Broughton Green UK
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Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
Looks like it's a 109 cu. inch?offy with Rileys?? ?A really neat car/engine combination.
Bill Blaylock
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 6:12?AM Edward Dean Butler via <edeanbutler= [email protected]> wrote: Look at the engine!
E Dean Butler
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E. Dean Butler
Broughton Green UK
-- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
Looks like a George Beavis racer to me ¨C with Topolino front suspension! ? Karl L. ? Karl Ludvigsen Scoles Gate Farmhouse Hawkedon Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP29 4AU, UK -- Karl Ludvigsen
Scoles Gate Farmhouse
Hawkedon
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk IP29 4AU, UK
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Hot rodded Fiat Topolino in UK!!!!
Look at the engine!
E Dean Butler --
E. Dean Butler
Broughton Green UK
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Fellow RGers, ?Has anyone had contact with Gordon White? He was not at the Miller Meet this year.? ?Gene Ingram New Castle, In.
-- Gene IngramList OwnerNew Castle IN USA
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Re: 1934 Indy 500 (Cummings 1934 500 Winning Car)
Thanks Randall At least now I have a name and place to start looking Smitty Hoston
David (and all):
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Yes, the car apparently still exists as part of a private collection.? It was on display in the IMS Museum back in 2011 as part of the 100th 500 Mile Race being run.? I could be wrong but I don't think it has been back since.
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1934: Boyle Miller (Bill Cummings)
Car is part of the W.A. Goodwin Collection in Frankfort, Indiana, owned by William and Sonya Miller. It currently contains a prewar 255cid Offy. The Goodwin Collection is housed in the rear of the Goodwin Funeral Home, and is open for visiting daily, except when a funeral is in progress. There has been some mild dispute about the authenticity of the car. The collection includes a number of other important cars. In the spring of 2011 the car was included in the 100th Anniversary display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.
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?? Here's a list of the whereabouts of all of the 500 winning cars.? There are a couple on this list that likely aren't true and are disputed by historians but at least it's a start.
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Randall Cook
Indianapolis, IN
On 07/30/2024 7:07 PM EDT David Schmidt via groups.io <dschmdt@...> wrote:
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Can anyone please tell me if the Boyle Special that Wild Bill won the 1934 Indy 500 with is still in existence?
My second cousin Roy Unversaw rode with Bill that day and as we are approaching the 100th anniversary of that event I would like (IF I live that much longer) to ride around the track before the race that day.
Just asking
Smitty
Houston
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David Schmidt
Highlands TX USA
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David Schmidt
Highlands TX USA
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Re: 1934 Indy 500 (Cummings 1934 500 Winning Car)
David (and all):
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Yes, the car apparently still exists as part of a private collection.? It was on display in the IMS Museum back in 2011 as part of the 100th 500 Mile Race being run.? I could be wrong but I don't think it has been back since.
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1934: Boyle Miller (Bill Cummings)
Car is part of the W.A. Goodwin Collection in Frankfort, Indiana, owned by William and Sonya Miller. It currently contains a prewar 255cid Offy. The Goodwin Collection is housed in the rear of the Goodwin Funeral Home, and is open for visiting daily, except when a funeral is in progress. There has been some mild dispute about the authenticity of the car. The collection includes a number of other important cars. In the spring of 2011 the car was included in the 100th Anniversary display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.
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?? Here's a list of the whereabouts of all of the 500 winning cars.? There are a couple on this list that likely aren't true and are disputed by historians but at least it's a start.
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Randall Cook
Indianapolis, IN
On 07/30/2024 7:07 PM EDT David Schmidt via groups.io <dschmdt@...> wrote:
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Can anyone please tell me if the Boyle Special that Wild Bill won the 1934 Indy 500 with is still in existence?
My second cousin Roy Unversaw rode with Bill that day and as we are approaching the 100th anniversary of that event I would like (IF I live that much longer) to ride around the track before the race that day.
Just asking
Smitty
Houston
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David Schmidt
Highlands TX USA
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Can anyone please tell me if the Boyle Special that Wild Bill won the 1934 Indy 500 with is still in existence? My second cousin Roy Unversaw rode with Bill that day and as we are approaching the 100th anniversary of that event I would like (IF I live that much longer) to ride around the track before the race that day. Just asking Smitty Houston -- David Schmidt Highlands TX USA
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Dick Wallen sprint car videos on YouTube
Below is a link to one of Dick Wallen's videos, this one on sprint car racing up through the 1963 season (it is his volume 1; apparently there is a volume 2).
Some of the highlights: - It includes some good color on USAC, CRA and IMCA events.
- There are all of the notable sprint cars from the era:? The Konstant Hot (which Foyt drove for a while); Bobby Marvin running a roadster on dirt;? Foyt in Watson's Blue No. 9: Foyt in his own sprint car at DuQuoin; Fike Plumbing and Hurtubise's?No. 56.
- Some of the races include the late Steve Stapp running?with the leaders.
- IMCA ran 52 events in 1963.? Check out the fair at St. Paul, MN.? There were 50 drivers entered for two days of racing, including Jud Larson on a comeback.? And check out the size of the crowd in the stands.
- The flagmen?of the era were in my opinion just a little bit crazy.? You will see them on almost all the tracks standing halfway across the main straight?waving their flags as the winner -- or the field -- comes roaring by.
This is a good video. Enjoy
Bill Blaylock
-- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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OT ... (more or less) Troy Indy Special at auction
Check out this listing.? A really neat looking custom, Indy roadster looking car.? ?Current bidding when I posted this was $90K.? Kinda looks like one of the old Pat Clancy Bardahl roadsters, doesn't it.
Enjoy
Bill Blaylock
-- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Thanks, Jim. Old PJ was something else, just a helluva driver. I can imagine he intimidated a LOT of other drivers. It was just fun to watch him...talk about competitive!
Bill Barker
Fort Leavenworth, KS
On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 02:13:21 PM CDT, Jim Thurman <jim.thurman@...> wrote:
Bill,
The race where Parnelli's pole was disallowed was also at Riverside, but in the 1970 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race. Parnelli (and seven other Western drivers) qualified on Firestones. NASCAR ruled them ineligible as the tires weren't available in enough quantity for the entire field and disallowed the times. Parnelli strongly objected and brought truckloads to the track overnight, but NASCAR would not relent and moved Parnelli and the other Western drivers to the back of the field. Parnelli considered not running, but decided to go ahead. He started 35th. He stormed through the field (in his book, Western NASCAR star Jack McCoy, who started right behind Parnelli, said he saw him make moves he couldn't believe, adding that he tried to stay with him, but only could for so long). On lap 35, Parnelli took the lead. Coming off turn 9, in the lead for the first time, in front of the main grandstand, Parnelli stuck his arm out the window and lofted a single digit towards the press box, where one Bill France was watching. The crowd absolutely erupted. In their race report, Autoweek waggishly remarked that Parnelli let the crowd know exactly what position he was in. Unfortunately, Parnelli's transmission packed it in and he was a DNF.
The Trans-Am race, later that year at Riverside, had Jones fall well back after an on-track collision and resulting pit stop. He stormed back through the field to win that too!
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Jim Thurman
Lancaster CA USA -- Bill Barker Fort Leavenworth KS USA
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Re: Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Bill,
The race where Parnelli's pole was disallowed was also at Riverside, but in the 1970 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race. Parnelli (and seven other Western drivers) qualified on Firestones. NASCAR ruled them ineligible as the tires weren't available in enough quantity for the entire field and disallowed the times. Parnelli strongly objected and brought truckloads to the track overnight, but NASCAR would not relent and moved Parnelli and the other Western drivers to the back of the field. Parnelli considered not running, but decided to go ahead. He started 35th. He stormed through the field (in his book, Western NASCAR star Jack McCoy, who started right behind Parnelli, said he saw him make moves he couldn't believe, adding that he tried to stay with him, but only could for so long). On lap 35, Parnelli took the lead. Coming off turn 9, in the lead for the first time, in front of the main grandstand, Parnelli stuck his arm out the window and lofted a single digit towards the press box, where one Bill France was watching. The crowd absolutely erupted. In their race report, Autoweek waggishly remarked that Parnelli let the crowd know exactly what position he was in. Unfortunately, Parnelli's transmission packed it in and he was a DNF.
The Trans-Am race, later that year at Riverside, had Jones fall well back after an on-track collision and resulting pit stop. He stormed back through the field to win that too!
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Lancaster CA USA
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Robin Miller's video on Parnelli
If you have not seen it, check out the late Robin Miller's 4 minute video on Parnelli Jones.
Bill Blaylock -- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Thomas,
Thanks for letting us know the sad news. My fondest memory of PJ was an article in Sports Car Graphic where he had run a Mustang in the '70 Trans-Am race at Riverside. If I remember correctly he had qualified on the pole only for the officials to disqualify that time as his tires were illegal or some such thing. He started from the back of the pack and in not too many laps was leading. A great picture showed PJ in a hard right turn with (I think) the right rear tire slightly in the air and the right side of the car bashed in. I don't remember if he won but he sure as hell let them know who was boss.
The best thing about that report was the caption..."When PJ charges, women faint and strong men shudder!"
How can you not like and appreciate a driver like that? No wonder he had so much success. We are of an age where are heroes are passing on nearly every day. But, that's life and we're better for having seen drivers like PJ and great races through the years.
Bill Barker
Fort Leavenworth, KS On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 08:50:54 PM CDT, Thomas Luce via groups.io <toml242001@...> wrote:
Parnelli Jones, 90, winner of the 1963 Indy 500 as a driver and in 1970 and 1971 as a owner, has died on June 4th.
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Thomas Luce
Manhattan Beach CA USA -- Bill Barker Fort Leavenworth KS USA
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Re: Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Thomas, what a neat photo of a young Parnelli Jones.? ?Thanks for posting it.
Bill Blaylock
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 10:12?PM Thomas Luce via <toml242001= [email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the memories Parnelli.
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Thomas Luce
Manhattan Beach CA USA
-- Bill Blaylock
Sanbornville NH USA
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Re: Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Thanks for the memories Parnelli.
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Thomas Luce
Manhattan Beach CA USA
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Parnelli Jones dead at age 90 years
Parnelli Jones, 90, winner of the 1963 Indy 500 as a driver and in 1970 and 1971 as a owner, has died on June 4th.
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Thomas Luce
Manhattan Beach CA USA
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Bob Storck
Karl Ludvigsen
