Group 8 -- Indy Roadsters
/ Brooklands Cars
The featured car this year. Enough
roadsters appeared to fill a full Indianapolis 500 33-car field with cars
left over. Most were powered by 4.2 liter Offenhauser 4 cyl. engines,
with a couple of Chrysler V8s and one Chevy V8. I heard about a Novi
running a 4-cam Maserati V8 in lieu of the Novi V8 unit but I never saw
it.
Prints of these
photos are available for sale!
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Mark Mountanos --
1958 Epperly "Demler Special" (1)
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Tom Malloy -- 1958
Watson "McNamara Chiropractic Special"
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Don Butler -- 1958
Cornis "Cornis Engineering Special"
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Raymond Boissoneau
-- 1957 Kurtis "Roy Brady Special"
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Dave Schleppi -- 1961
Chenowth "San Diego Steel Products Special"
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James King -- 1960
Ewing "Joe Hunt Magneto Special"
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Bruce Revennaugh --
1961 Elder "Stearly's Motor Freight Special"
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Robert McConnell --
1957 Kurtis 500G2 "City of Daytona Special"
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Mark Mountanos --
1958 "Epperly Demler Special" (2)
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Larry Pfitzenmaier
-- 1959 Watson "Simoniz Special"
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Aldo Bigioni -- 1959
Kurtis 500 "McKay Special"
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Bill Boone -- 1960
Meskowski "Scmidt Special"
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Brooklands
was an early English banked track used for record runs. Its characteristics
spawned a unique breed of enormous aero-engined
record breakers. Three of these legendary cars circulated on demo
laps at this year's Monterey Historics.
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1933 Napier Railton
Special
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1909 "Blitzen Benz"
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"Blitzen Benz" --
Problems at the top of the hill.
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Mercedes-Benz
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