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    Tony - someone already asked you what vintage INDY car you would drive - so I'll ask what is the oldest & coolest car you have driven... oh and would you please check out Where They Raced?

    Wiki says this about Mickey Thompson's 1962 - "Despite being more than 70 bhp down on the other cars Dan Gurney qualified eighth and was in ninth place until a leaking oil seal seized the gearbox and ended his race on lap 94. He was placed 20th out of 33. The team won the Mechanical Achievement Award for original…

    Wish I could watch INDY's from the teens and 20's LIVE... with cars like this - same car 100 years later

    Come this August I hope there will be another teenager / racer / filmmaker making some history at Bonneville - check out CHASING 200 and follow Kaylin's quest to joing the 200MPH CLUB https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chasi…

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    And there is this Mini-Doc about how they pulled them out from their YouTube:

    An when I say Miller I also mean Fred Offenhauser who was Miller's chief engineer and then bought out the company. Bewteen them they dominated INDY & everything else with something like a combined 30 wins in the first 50 years... crazy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Offe…

    Really? Harry Miller is not on the list already?

    11 years younger than the National at our booth. But u can sit in ours!!! It raced at the LA Motordrome - 1st board track in America and at the Santa Monica road races.

    It is a 2014 version of La Bestioni:

    Don't forget the So. Cal. Timing Association's last races out at El Mirage Sat & Sunday... and obviously the big screen premiere of Where They Raced on Sunday night.

    Please keep WHERE THEY RACED on the radar for a L.A. Screening if & when that happens... www.wheretheyraced.com

    I can find a wall

    With a cherry red roadster on top! Just was part of a film fest up in Pebble Beach... it was a blast. Would love to do more.

    I tried to make the Petersen event - but was too late... tried DM you guys on twitter...

    65th Speed Week on the salt at Bonneville. SCTA website is trying to have a live feed... but last I checked it was still crashed