On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:22:58 -0500, dpb wrote:

I really don't have any strong affinity but while was in E TN/piedmont
VA where it's homegrown was hard to avoid. It's worth at least once't
to go to both a short track as well as one of the super speedways...

I remember well the midgets racing on a 1/2 mile dirt track. Looked like
someone had taken an Indy car (as they were then) and shrunk it. Don't
hear much about them anymore.

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

On May 31, 2:19*pm, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:22:58 -0500, dpb wrote:
I really don't have any strong affinity but while was in E TN/piedmont
VA where it's homegrown was hard to avoid. *It's worth at least once't
to go to both a short track as well as one of the super speedways...

I remember well the midgets racing on a 1/2 mile dirt track. *Looked like
someone had taken an Indy car (as they were then) and shrunk it. *Don't
hear much about them anymore.

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

I don't remember

"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:22:58 -0500, dpb wrote:

I really don't have any strong affinity but while was in E TN/piedmont
VA where it's homegrown was hard to avoid. It's worth at least once't
to go to both a short track as well as one of the super speedways...

I remember well the midgets racing on a 1/2 mile dirt track. Looked like
someone had taken an Indy car (as they were then) and shrunk it. Don't
hear much about them anymore.

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw


When I was still in high school I had a friend whose dad drove a midget. It
had an Offenhauser modified Ferguson tractor motor.
I used to go to those races in Owosso, Michigan. Loved that Castrol oil
smell.
Many of the "midget" cars had the flat head Ford V-8s.

Max