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Originally Posted by humfrz
Yep, I got the picture -  |
that looks like a Sprint car to me. Never drove one of those, but I did once drive a figure stocker in a moment of lunacy. We had two ovals in the Denver area then. Lakeside Speedway was a 1/5 mile asphalt oval. And there was a 1/4 mile dirt track in Englewood. It was owned by Charlie Codner and the dirt was so hard we named it Carter's Concrete Speedway
I always thought the Kurtis Kraft midget was a gorgeous car. Back then they had a small roll bar behind the head, and one guy did get a broken neck when he hit the wall backwards and died. The big cages that were later built over the cars were obviously sensible but they sure are ugly compared to the originals. for a short time, Kurtis Kraft built what they a called a roadster, which was lower and wider and the driver sat toward the left side of the cockpit. I only saw one of them and the guy who drove it wasn't much of a competitor so it didn't last long.