Pleasing to the eye

[Budman]

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[NeilTPS]

Oh yes...the famed ROADSTER.

 

Cotton Sherland and Johnnie Doyle have told me champ car racing got ruined when they put the engines in the rear and the roadster became obsolete.

 

Budman - Who raced the car in the picture?

 

Neil Upchurch

[NeilTPS]

Oh yes...the famed ROADSTER.

 

Cotton Sherland and Johnnie Doyle have told me champ car racing got ruined

when they put the engines in the rear and the roadster became obsolete.

 

Budman - Who raced the car in the picture?

 

Neil Upchurch

[Budman]

Neal,

 

I have no idea. I just came across it on the net a couple of days ago.

its a modern picture of a restoration. Thought it was a beautiful

car so I downloaded it to put it on here.

 

 

 

 

(of course given the logo on the side

I could have made up a story about Paris

driving it in her next reality show

[Budman]

What Cotton and Johnnie said

is absolutely correct. Then, they

had to start getting European

and South American drivers

who had more experience driving

rear engine cars...... and that's

where we are today. Very few

Americans driving those types of

cars in any of the series. That's

why I find the new silver crown

car so exciting!

 

Through the fifties and mid-sixties,

the Indianapolis 500 was just as

"American" as any Daytona 500.

And everybody was just as familiar

with all 33 of the drivers in the race

each year as we are today with any

Nascar Nextel Cup race. Then came

the rear-engine cars, soon followed

by a long line of foreign drivers that

no one had ever heard of. Nothing

personally against them, but it's just

not the same.

 

Imagine the excitement around here

in 1963 when Foyt, McElreath, Ruby

and Rutherford, all Texans started the

500!