Junk Racers-Old Stories and Photos

[Olen McGuire]

I ran on to this site some time ago, and I can spend hours just going through the stories and pictures that old time racing used to be.When you get to the site,click on some of the articles on the left hand side.There's something there for everybody that enjoys the jalopy's and some of the stories that go with them.The site is "junkracer.virtualave.net".Just click JUNK RACERS (http://www.junkracer.virtualave.net) and have fun.~Olen


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[Thomas E]

Thums up!

In the post photos I see that number 45 has John Zink Co. on the door.

When JZ ran at Indy the would call his cars "Zinkenhauser's"

[JimmyK]

Cool. Check out the old sprint car (chassis and partial body) at the bottom of Finds Page 9. Nice project material.

[Jeff Isenhart]

Cool. Check out the old sprint car (chassis and partial body) at the bottom of Finds Page 9. Nice project material.

Wow cool site fun to look at and read the stories.

[Quick Time]

Olen,

Damn, what gold strike you gave us. The jalopy home page describes cars at the corner gas stations. That is exactly how I became aquainted with racing. My first connection to a race car began when I washed windows while customers gassed up. A time when every car got air in the tires, oil and belts checked while receiving fuel.

I would get to wrench a few little things on the race car while the boys waited for the station to close so they could pull it in the bay for after hours work.

Great days and even better memories.

Thanks for bringing this gem to our attention, you make great contributions.

Chuck

[Jerry Lee]

Wow! Very cool find, Dad! Now I'm never going to get anything done at work here........;)

[Olen McGuire]

In the post photos I see that number 45 has John Zink Co. on the door.
When JZ ran at Indy the would call his cars "Zinkenhauser's"


Bob Sweikert was the 1955 Indy winner with the John Zink Special which was a 1955 Kurtis-Kraft 500C.


http://autoracingmemories.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=130&pictureid=841

[Thomas E]

Bob Sweikert was the 1955 Indy winner with the John Zink Special which was a 1955 Kurtis-Kraft 500C.


http://autoracingmemories.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=130&pictureid=841

Great car. It was also called the "Pink bathtub". A car that I really liked, so I bought a Carousel One 1/18th scale for my bookshelf.

It's color was about that of '55 Ford pink and off white.

[lakeside #29]

Olen, What a cool site. I stumbled onto this site awhile back. How'd you like to know where some of these old babies are?

Chris Ertler-"professor coupe"

[Olen McGuire]

Olen, What a cool site. I stumbled onto this site awhile back. How'd you like to know where some of these old babies are?

Hey 'Professor Coupe',yeah, I also ran into this site a while back,and wondered the same thing about where some of them are now. It took some people a long time to compile a site like that, and I enjoyed it so much that I thought I'd share it with the one's who didn't know it was there.Looking at some of those old pics reminds me of Thomas E's signature on his post's.

"Late at night over by the old speedway, you can hear the ghosts - The barking and crackling of the "Flathead Fords", the zing of the "Chevy Stove Bolt's", The midget cars rumbling "KK-Offy's", the snarling "Ford V8-60's". Listen and faintly hear the announcer say, "Ladies and gentlemen, the line up for the main event," the place would erupt with the echoing of the cheers mixed with boo’s mixed . . . Remember? " Kudos Thomas.

[parrot]

Gee! Thanks alot Olen, now I can waste away MORE time! What a site, I'd almost forgotten about it. Think that's where I got some of those photos for the '34 Ford Story. You've made it really easy to get to. Gotta put that on my 'favorites'. For some of us, those really were the good old days. Didn't give a second thought back then about using up old cars. Recently heard about one of those old derelicts in a gulley in western Nebraska, going to check it out next time I get back there.