Billy cantrell midget photo

Walt Von Amberg Trimmed with Vinyl Coated Plasties. Central States Racing Association. From what I understand, the car was re-restored a year or two ago and put up for auction this past month, and now lives with a competent collector on the east coast. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas His experience and knowledge helps preserve the legacy of the Offy.

Jimmy Caruthers was the next to pilot one of Dad's cars. Right after Dad sold the winter '68 build car, I told him I wanted to drive. Advertising on Auto Racing Memories. Some of the races involved road trips, like this one at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona. That simple illustration left a lasting memory, now more than 50 years later. In he married Norma and together, over the following 10 years, they had five children, 2 girls and 3 boys.

I was told the owner parked it in his yard and planted flowers in it. Curtis Spicer 8 positions. Its next owner in was Owen Shaw for his first midget season at Western Springs, the car then went to Invercargill to be raced by Dave Burns until Perhaps the film wasn't developed until then. The two dipped and dove between the lapped cars of Weyant and Daniel Adler as the pair threaded through the eye of a needle in a game of racing limbo to see who could be the first to get the lowest on the racing surface.