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Cambridge police last night reported that two days of investigation had revealed no new leads in the daring Sunday night robbery of the Midget Restaurant, near Radcliffe. Midget owner Alfred Kagan estimated the loss at over $1400, in small bills...
...year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own auto-repair shop at El Centro, Calif. Swarthout promptly built the first one in the Imperial Valley. Since then, micro-midget racing has spread as far east as Pennsylvania. Reason for the popularity of the micros: they can be built for as little...
Limits to Leeway. California's Imperial Valley Micro-Midget Association, like others, has imposed stringent limits on size and engine displacement for the racers. The buglike cars must be no longer than 5 ft., no higher than 34 in., must have a wheel spread of no more than 42 in. Valve-in-head engines may have a maximum of 18 cu. in. of total cylinder displacement; overhead valve engines are limited...
With that kind of leeway, micro-midget fans have scrounged engines from a wild assortment of places: lawnmower motors, outboards, motor scooters, units from generating and refrigerator plants, and even bilge-pump engines salvaged from Navy landing craft. Average weight of car and engine...
...Price for an Offenhauser-powered midget: $5,500-$7,000; for a road-racing Ferrari...