Indy Roadsters

[Michael Clark]

For anyone remotely interested, there is an story about Roadsters in the latest issue of NZ Classic Car...

[MarkQ]

[MarkQ]

[bry3500]

Looks like the Bill Cheesbourg-Greenman Casale Special 1959

[stubuchanan]

This #39 car is a 1963 Watson-built roadster driven in the 1966 Indy 500 by Bobby Grim as the Racing Associates Special. It had a 168 cu. in turbocharged Offenhauser engine that year and qualified 15th and finished 7th. In earlier years it had a 252 cu. in engine. Claimed to be the last Roadster to run in the '500', but Jim Hurtubise qualified his own Mallard front engined car in 1968 but lasted only 9 laps in the race. The Mallard (its tail stuck up like a duck!) was a semi monocoque lightweight car with solid axles, and the Herk entered it, perhaps as a joke, well on into the 1970's. He put in a single lap of 176.991 mph in 1972, but had already qualified faster in a rear engined car.

Stu

[928]

the first version of the 168 CID offy had a roots type supercharger driven by a gear train from the rear of the crankshaft. this is from memry having read a magazine article back in the 60's

This #39 car is a 1963 Watson-built roadster driven in the 1966 Indy 500 by Bobby Grim as the Racing Associates Special. It had a 168 cu. in turbocharged Offenhauser engine that year and qualified 15th and finished 7th. In earlier years it had a 252 cu. in engine. Claimed to be the last Roadster to run in the '500', but Jim Hurtubise qualified his own Mallard front engined car in 1968 but lasted only 9 laps in the race. The Mallard (its tail stuck up like a duck!) was a semi monocoque lightweight car with solid axles, and the Herk entered it, perhaps as a joke, well on into the 1970's. He put in a single lap of 176.991 mph in 1972, but had already qualified faster in a rear engined car.

Stu

[MarkQ]

[MarkQ]

1962 Indy 500 Winner

[MarkQ]

[MarkQ]

I'm a bit of a Smokey Yunick fan so was wrapt to see this car.

[MarkQ]

AJ Foyts 1964 winning car, the last front engined car to win Indy.