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...spindizzy can buy a ready-made car like the Hiller Comet, cheapest on the market, for $28 (engine & all). Or he may pay up to $175 for a custom-made job. But his little racer, under the rules of the newly organized American Miniature Racing Car Association, cannot be more than 24 inches long. The average miniature is 16 inches long, weighs seven pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their...
...last week's big race, Roy Richter's Richter Streamliner blew two tires. But when the last heat had been chalked up, Richter's racer had won the championship -at a speed of 67,085 m.p.h...
Married. Ezio Pinza, 48, big, curly-haired Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, who used to be a six-day bicycle racer; and Doris Neal Leak, 22; at Larchmont...
Martin's disadvantage is that Martin starts the race with a creaking, long inactive machine, while Flynn inherited a racer, not only in working order but tuned up for eight years by Master Mechanic Farley...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...