Back to Loudon – again
with photos
By Tom Avenengo
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Getting into some Indy cars now, and starting with this Studebaker powered old timer. Beautiful car, isn't it?
A couple of Silver Crown "Indy" cars. First, here is the # 15. Prior to the Indy "Roadsters", this is what was raced at Indy and on the Championship Trail - whether the tracks were dirt or asphalt.
Here is the second Silver Crown "Indy" car - # 42. Starting in 1952, the Indy Roadsters started to replace these "dirt" cars on pavement. The Roadsters were great at Indy, but when they hit the paved mile tracks, the dirt cars more than held their own, many times coming out ahead of the Roadsters. And, on some occasions, the "Dirt" styled Silver Crown cars even beat some of the Rear Engined Indy cars on pavement.
Time for a couple of Roadster photos - this one of car # 16. I believe this one had an Offy engine in it.
Here's another Roadster - # 37. This one, if I'm not mistaken had a Chevrolet engine under the hood. Yes, there were other Roadsters at Loudon, too.
Roadsters - 3-wide! These drivers had a blast running the track - on a few occasions, like this. And all the way around, too.
More three-wide action. The # 1 car was powered with an Alpha engine. The red car, in the middle, a Chevy and the blue car, on the outside - an Offy.
A little four-wide out of the fourth turn. Got just a tad tight, so there weren't many laps run this way.
The red car was Chevy powered and just had "header pipes", so it was quite loud. The blue car had an Offy and a reguar exhaust system.
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