Pike Green, like Don Radbruch, was a great source of information and encouragement for me to continue to research racing history around the Greater Vancouver area. So, like with Don, I have to thank him and can only wish he was still around.
Fortunately he still is in his writings. He sent me many photocopies of stories wrote for Racing Wheels in the early 1970s on racers he knew from his years in the northwest, starting with Langford Speedway in the 1930s. He also started Golden Wheels, a fraternity of racers that helps keep the history alive with vintage racing exhibitions.
This story is on Swede Lindskog. The links up on the sidebar show The Swede Lindskog Project, a nephew of the late racer who is compiling material on the man.
One thing I found, and pointed out to Pike, was that Swede did lose a feature (or two) at Langford Speedway. I hate having to "set the record straight".
(Sorry about the quality of the scans. Taken from poor photocopies of yellowed newsprint.)
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