1965 Copper Cup, CAMRA

Ending the year with an old race report from Racing Wheels. The 1965 Copper Cup from Salt Lake City, a CAMRA race.

Happy New Year !!

a midget wreck at Aurora, circa 1947

Two views of a wreck at Aurora. Looks like everyone walked away.

some old midget photos circa 1947

From negatives that were rediscovered in the pile of things needing rediscovery. Allen Heath and Louie Sherman at Aurora (Seattle), circa 1947.

Sunday funnies

A couple more pages from some old Hot Rods and Racing Cars comics.

Saturday morning sock hop

Johnny Lane sings (with lots of echo) "Rocking on the Dragstrip".

more Oregon racing

Hot rods at Hollywood Bowl (Salem) and Lane County Fairgrounds (Eugene), 1949.

more seasonal greasings

Have a safe and fun time. Santa is homeward bound.

Santa's on his run

Merry Xmas and all those seasonal greasings.

Hollywood Bowl in Salem, OR

The Salem, OR, version of the Hollywood Bowl opened in 1947. Many of the same guys who raced midgets at Digney Speedway from 1948 to 1951 raced down there.

1924 races at Lewiston, ID

Tracking races that the IMCA were part of in 1924. From Spokane to Ritzville to Lewiston to Billings. Here's some Lewiston info.

Sunday funnies

Found a whole bunch of old Hot Rods and Racing Cars comics online. Here's a couple pages.

Saturday morning sock hop

Slick Slavin sings "Speed Crazy".

two more old midget racers from the northwest

Louie Sherman and Allen Heath.

Louie with an outboard powered midget (I love his helmet design -- thumbing his nose) and Allen Heath circa 1940 at Seattle's Playland.

two midget racers from the northwest

Wayne Gaffney (74) and Ernie Spalding (79), 1942 at Tacoma. Both came up to Con Jones Park from 1939 to 1941.

two northwest racers

Chick Barbo and Don Olds. Chick at Chicago in 1948 and Don from 1952. Both lost their lives in racing accidents.

dang, missed a day

I was hoping for a perfect record but "officially" I missed Monday. Off in lala land I suppose.

Two photos from 1936, Seattle's Aurora Speed Bowl, stock car racing. From the Clarence Eckhardt collection courtesy of the late great Don Radbruch.

Sunday funnies

More Hot Rod Cartoons covers.

Saturday morning sock hop

Howlin' Wolf, Driving This Highway.

another season ending race from Seattle, 1950

This one for the midgets that included Rodger Ward from California.

and yet more from Seattle, 1950

Everything from the Seattle P-I, which did a fair amount of coverage of racing over the years.

The 1950 Northwest Championship Hot Rod race. A 100 lapper.

even more 1950 Seattle clippings

From the Seattle P-I again. Allen Heath is noted to be the stunt/racing double for Mickey Rooney in The Big Wheel.

some more 1950 Seattle clippings

Let's see, motorcycles at the Seattle Memorial Stadium.

Seattle, 1950

Finally getting some scans done of 1950s clippings from the Seattle P-I. I've only had them sitting in a folder for close to ten years.

First off some hot rod and big car races.

Sunday funnies

Some more old Hot Rod Cartoons covers.

Saturday morning sock hop

A naval version of Hot Rod Race -- Mick Woodward and Hot Rod Race Navy Style.

1953 news clippings from Seattle

Continuing with some photocopies off microfilm. This time from the 1953 Seattle Times.

some other 1969 scans

From the 1969 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Need to go back and look deeper. Some day, some way.

nice story about a racer who did come up to Langley Speedway on occasion

John Helegson, from the Ellensburg Daily Record, back in 1969.