| Author | Message | ||
     Fast1075 |
I just realized The Indy 500 was today. I watched part of the race and that was it. The 500 used to be the showcase of engineering and innovation, with huge diversity of equipment and ideas. From the turbine car to the insane little Offenhauser 4 bangers on 40" of boost, to Smokey Yunick's chevys, Chassis of every conceivable variety. Innovation, and outside the box thinking. Now relegated to another "Skittles down the toilet" formula class. I really miss "run what you brung" racing. | ||
| Gschuette |
The first rule of race club. There are no rules in race club! That would be cool! | ||
| Ducbsa |
I was at a Pennsylvania Hillclimb Assoc event yesterday and saw a twin three cylinder snowmo engine car. I was talking to the owner about a twin 911 engine car that failed to qualify for the 500 in '69 or so. Yes, those were the days! | ||
| Crusty |
I watched the race. I enjoyed it. | ||
| Hughlysses |
If you want to see run what ya' brung, go to Bonneville sometime. I ran out of superlative exclamations half way through a walk through the pits. | ||
| 46champ |
The first time I went to Bonneville with a friend of mine we were looking at a 36 Chrysler Airflow that had a flathead 6 with a 4 71 Jimmy blower hanging off the side and Bob says "these people don't give up on anything do they." | ||
| Strokizator |
It's still a big spectacle. Got to see Jim Nabors sing "Back Home in Indiana" for the last time. The last few laps featured good racing. My only complaint is for some f'n reason, ABC thought I wanted to see pictures of girlfriends and wives instead of actual race cars. I've got a 50-something inch TV but instead of a full screen shot of the race I got a split screen showing 18" of the race and another 18" of Helio Castroneves's GF. Who the F cares ?!? Read Smokey's Yunick's book on racing. Lots of behind-the-scenes stuff about Indy and George Hurst, among others. "Race, Party, Screw" - I'm guessing those days are gone. | ||
| Ourdee |
I used to live in Indy. The 500 museum is a nice stop. As a youth I got an after hours tour of the non public part of the museum. The infield used to be one big party. I went there once. Wound up carrying my girlfriend over my shoulder at the end of the day. I saw the top half of one car go by that day. That was all the race I saw. I've cruised the roads around the track the night before. That is a show all it's own. Craziest time was in a top down jeep with three girls with me. The jeep looked and sounded good but not as good as the attention it was getting. Then I looked in the back and saw one of the girls standing up with her shirt over her head. Thought I was in Missouri. | ||
| 46champ |
Thought I was in Missouri  | ||
| Badlionsfan |
With the amount of technology involved in racing today, run what ya brung would just ensure that he with the deepest pockets won every race in whatever series you wanna talk about. The days of a few guys in a barn coming up with something to beat the big dogs are sadly gone, not that it ever happened all that regularly in any era in any race series. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Back in the day, Andy Granatelli sold a lot of STP oil treatment. | ||
| Ourdee |
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| Slaughter |
Andy Granatelli Tribute Lap with Vince Granatelli, Parnelli Jones and Mario Andretti.  (Message edited by slaughter on May 27, 2014) | ||
| Hr_puffinstuff |
I went to the indy 500 and I had a real good time. Who won? Met some fine folks, drank a few good beers, ate a 5 star steak from a 5 star chef, and even got to see some boobies - and the race was pretty good, too. Everybody should go to indy once, like Mecca for motorheads. You don't even need to be a race fan do have a good time. See you at the bike races in August! | ||
| Ourdee |
103 more miles and I'll be there. | ||
| Sifo |
Back in 1982 I took part in the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indianapolis. As a participant I got to drive my '72 Nova around the track for a lap. They kept us down to about 70 mph, but still pretty cool. The town at night was a huge party. Cops were doing their best to keep things relatively safe, by directing "traffic" while people were doing burnouts with people holding onto the bumpers and other stupid stuff. I would really hate being a resident of Indianapolis during these huge events. I was told that the crowds for that event was quite a bit bigger than for the Indy 500. Biggest custom car show you will ever see! I actually had three cars I did entered in the show that year. Good times! Supposedly Ted Nugent was there staying at the same hotel we were at. Never saw him, but someone told me which car was supposedly his. I have no clue if any of that was true or not. Never went for the Indy 500 though. |
