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December 31, 2011 at
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I know its been around awhile , but who was the first to run it ? And how did it change racing as we know it?
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December 31, 2011 at
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December 31, 2011 at
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http://www.hilborninjection.com/about.asp
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January 07, 2012 at
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first person to have injection on a sprint car was duane vobach out of topeka kansas, his driver thad dosher and several others are in the hall of fame. although back then sprint cars were knowen as super modifeds. and yes its in the hall of fame.
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January 07, 2012 at
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This message was edited on
January 08, 2012 at
07:28:38 AM by BIGFISH
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Posted By: outlaw15vv on January 07 2012 at 08:49:46 PM
first person to have injection on a sprint car was duane vobach out of topeka kansas, his driver thad dosher and several others are in the hall of fame. although back then sprint cars were knowen as super modifeds. and yes its in the hall of fame.
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It was the roadsters and the "big cars" that morphed into sprint cars. There's a very good article in SC&M magazine that talks about how this "middle division" evolved. I watched the old CRA roadsters as a little kid, and more than a few of us remember when, or have the knowledge that CRA originally stood for the California Roadster Association.. Dick Wallen has a book called, Roaring Roadsters The Road to Indy http://www.racingclassics.com/roaring_roadsters_indy.html
S Cali and AZ, and N.M. with the NMMRA as well, is still non wing traditional sprint car country, and we didn't have to take the wings off a "super" modified or anything like that to make a sprinter, because they came from the roadsters and the big cars that ran tracks like Legion Ascot in Southern Cali, and the fairground 1 miles tracks in S Cali and AZ.. Don't get me wrong, we had a good bunch of supers, but that's certainly not where the sprint car came from..... One of the first real sprint car tracks in S Cali was Carrell Speedway and Judge Carrell & Christopher J.C. Agajanian were the driving forces behind both tracks, (Ascot & Carrell) and the CRA itself. Sprint cars were introduced in 1953 and the name was changed in 1957 to the California Racing Association, or CRA... The supers like Hank Arnolds famous twister were in a class by themselfs.
Now some might say that a lot of different type cars were called sprint cars shortly after they started running at less than the championship distance of 100 miles, because of the shorter distance; but most people, and myself, only think of a true sprint car looking like the one's in the pictures below.
1953 Hilligass Sprint car..
1948 Hilligass sprinter..
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January 08, 2012 at
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Reply to:
Posted By: outlaw15vv on January 07 2012 at 08:49:46 PM
first person to have injection on a sprint car was duane vobach out of topeka kansas, his driver thad dosher and several others are in the hall of fame. although back then sprint cars were knowen as super modifeds. and yes its in the hall of fame.
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Reference Thad Dosher: "in the hall of fame" Thad- a former winner of the Knoxville Nationals has not been inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum located in Knoxville, Iowa. Thad, a good open wheel racer may be an inductee in another racing hall of fame but at this time he's not yet an inductee in the NSCHoF&M.
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January 08, 2012 at
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Great Pics and info too. Thad Dosher,if my old faded memory serves me correctly was originally from Napcarland,North Carolina,I believe,but my memory just isn't that good anymore,I'm down to one eye,one ear,and one ---,but I can still see that Novi screamin' around Atlanta,look at that --- of a ----- go,sit down boy,its only warm-ups.They take anymore of me I'll be a kit.
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January 08, 2012 at
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This message was edited on
January 08, 2012 at
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Posted By: Bet n Housen on January 08 2012 at 10:58:06 AM
Great Pics and info too. Thad Dosher,if my old faded memory serves me correctly was originally from Napcarland,North Carolina,I believe,but my memory just isn't that good anymore,I'm down to one eye,one ear,and one ---,but I can still see that Novi screamin' around Atlanta,look at that --- of a ----- go,sit down boy,its only warm-ups.They take anymore of me I'll be a kit.
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You'll like this Bet n Housen. http://www.indyroadsters.webs.com/apps/blog/show/1610714-the-novi-roadsters- and I'm sure you know Tony drove one.....These cars, also, made a rare appearance, away from the Indianapolis Speedway, at Atlanta in 1965, driven by Hurtubise and Tinglestad
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January 11, 2012 at
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Posted By: badger boy on January 08 2012 at 10:42:37 AM
Reference Thad Dosher: "in the hall of fame" Thad- a former winner of the Knoxville Nationals has not been inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum located in Knoxville, Iowa. Thad, a good open wheel racer may be an inductee in another racing hall of fame but at this time he's not yet an inductee in the NSCHoF&M.
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Congratulations to Thad Dosher who (as announced last night at the Chili Bowl) will be inducted on June 2nd, 2012 into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame--located in Knoxville, Iowa. Well done Thad and well deserved!!!
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