NPOCP - Classic Race Car Edition

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 09/02/2015 at 07:40 • Filed to: None

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1950 Ford powered Indy Car price at $90,000. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

JR1 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 09/02/2015 at 09:16

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Nice price. A new Z06 or a piece of racing history. I bet it is a blast to drive

RacinBob > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 09/02/2015 at 21:13

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I see it was auctioned by RM auctions in 2007 LINK . Per the writeup it did not qualify with the flathead between ‘48 to ‘50. At RM, the high bid as $90,000 LINK .

Because it was an old Thorne indycar, I searched and found pictures of there

Mel Hanson in 1939

Joe Thorn in same car in ‘38 He finished 9th

and thorne engineering #16 1938 entry Ronnie Householder Qualified on the pole ! Finished 14

Jimmy Snyder in the ‘6 entry Qualified 4th, finished 15th! Snyder led ‘92 laps

These cars were entered as the Adams/Sparks by Thorne. Both cars retired at 3/4 race due to supercharger. If somebody has history, I would love to see it.

The car could be either of these. It has same brakes, grill, indents on base pan and parking brake. The steering arm are different and radius rods are gone, but I expect they had to be changed because of larger flathead and dual exhaust.

This is easily nice price, as this car likely started Pole or 2nd row of the ‘38 500. Buy it and run it in the Miller.

One last thing. I looked at the ‘39 field and Rex Mays ran a what appears to be the #6

Jimmy Snyder Started on the pole in what I assume to be the #16 and finished 2nd to Wilbur Shaw. He led 65 laps.

These cars were royalty, For a bucket of money, the best investment might be to plug in an offy and restore it to the pre war configation because if the sale car is either of those Adams/Sparks cars, (in the pictures there were only two) they were pole winners and race leaders!

RacinBob > RacinBob 09/02/2015 at 21:31

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By the way #16 entered in 1946 George Robson and it won in 1946

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I kind of doubt that this is #16 as it’s a race winner. Therefore my guess is it’s the pole winning #6 by Thornton and #15 driven by Rex Mays. Wow!

RacinBob > RacinBob 09/02/2015 at 21:47

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I think I got the ‘39 cars reversed, Snyder is in 10 , her ran as 6 in 38. Mays in the 10, Householder’s 16 ride in ‘38.

It’s really anybody’s guess.

Axial > JR1 09/02/2015 at 21:51

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I bet it actively tries to kill its driver...with a blast of fire after impact.

JR1 > Axial 09/02/2015 at 22:24

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That just adds to the character