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Post by bobjeffreson on May 6, 2010 17:54:51 GMT 10
Back in the day, the Offenhauser was the motor of choice in speedway racing. From midgets, through sprintcars and dirt champ, to Indy, the name was on the side of all these cars.
I walked out of my hotel in Frankfurt to see this parked across the road ......what the......an Offenhauser bus...  
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Post by mandmdavis1 on May 6, 2010 20:35:38 GMT 10
O.K Bob ....who know's the story on the famous offenhauser .?
Q9
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Post by sprintmen on May 16, 2010 18:54:25 GMT 10
Working from a very unsure(once I would have been sure lol) memory I think it was an ex Mike Mcgreevy Offy driven in Australia by Barry Watt one of the smoothest operators ever to come out of Qld.Barry was considered by many of us as the Northern States Peter Cunneen.Funny how time makes us unsure of something we would have known in a flash.
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Post by mandmdavis1 on May 17, 2010 17:47:34 GMT 10
yep i remember him ...mate your not buy your self there they call it C.R.A.F.T disease..hhmm..
guy's who was the dude to run the first offy in oz..of cause the yank's would of brought them here
but who??........Q9
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Post by bobjeffreson on May 18, 2010 5:27:48 GMT 10
MD,
How about Paul Swedberg in 1939.
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Post by sprintmen on May 19, 2010 18:44:33 GMT 10
Thats spot on Bob.I think the car then went to a NZ owner.
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