Cleveland midget race cars and equipment

It's difficult to put in words what NEMA meant to them, but what maybe even more difficult, is to define what "Gene and Marilyn" meant to this organization. Read More below LaGuardia, a fireplug of a character with boundless energy and passion. When LaGuardia died his obituary in the New York Times read that while he got things done sometimes in a swirl of controversy, he got them done. The same could be said about Gene.

Not a year after Fred Offenhauser took over the operations of his former employer, engine builder Harry A. Miller — which consisted mainly of casting, machining, and selling racing parts, and rebuilding truck engines — a new business opportunity arose in the summer of Midget racing had taken the country by storm, offering cheap thrills for spectators and drivers alike in the depths of the Depression. One of those promoters, Los Angeles-based Earl Gilmore, grew dismayed with the frequent breakdowns and the unruly nature of the miscellaneous motorcycle, junkyard, and cut-down engines that powered the cars racing at his stadium, so he turned to Offenhauser for help. The was, as Millers went, relatively simple, that is, inexpensive.

Spotlight Rust Magazine had a chance to sit down with Tommy Hunt in his memento-filled office in Roseville. Tommy, the son of legendary magneto king Joe Hunt, has spent his whole life in the world of racing, aside from a short stint playing minor-league baseball for the Cleveland Indians. For 11 years Hunt, 71, has been the race promotor of Calistoga Speedway, the oldest dirt track on the West Coast. He started out working for his dad, Joe, who ran race cars.

Cleveland midget race cars and equipment. Placerville, CA — May 4, …It was a hi Track prep had gone on prior to the feature and made for some fantastic racing on the Placerville bullring. Gualda paced the field out front while drivers raced hard for position behind him.