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[fines]

Like the sister thread about the Popely Indianapolis book, this is an attempt to avoid confusion and errors rather than to put blame on the publishers (we're all human - one hopes - and everyone makes mistakes...). Also, I will take the opportunity to add information about where, what and when - if I can, that is... Here goes:

Fabulous Fifties

p403, top left: later date picture, this is the team's new Kuzma-built dirt car which it only acquired two months later
p404, bottom left: wrong car, the Glessner was a lighter colour and did not have a rollover bar yet
p427, lower left: picture taken at Milwaukee 200 two months later (the pitboard in the background is for Bettenhausen, who was not present in June)
p435, bottom left: it's the start of the second heat rather than the third
p440, top right: a tough nut to crack, since Veith was supposed to drive the team's roadster there. So the pic was from June, right? Wrong, careful examination of the first-lap pic on the opposite page shows him to be in the dirt car after all!
p447, top far left: a practice shot, Bryan used the dirt car in the race (see previous page)

Board Track

p10, top right: this is Charlie Merz okay, but the picture was most probably taken at the 1912 Elgin Road Races (Illinois National Trophy, Aug 30, which Merz won on this early Stutz - 4 cylinders, 390 CID)
p35, bottom: picture is taken at the 1915 American Grand Prize, San Francisco - first appearance of the new "narrow" Stutz with single exhaust (Anderson/Rooney), Wilcox/Evans and Cooper/Dutton are still in the old 1913 cars.
p37: this is the freak 900 CID Packard 'Record Car', not the 299 CID Indy Car
p38: Indy 1916, Eddie Rickenbacher in "Prest-O-Lite Racing Team" Maxwell
p39: Henderson was Rickenbacher's 1916 teammate and, accordingly, this picture was also taken at Indy that year
p42: Cooper and unknown mechanic in their Stutz at Indy in 1914
p50, top right: Indy 1914, a rare picture of non-starter DePalma and his Mercedes
p50, bottom right: Indy 1913, Mulford in the Schroeder Mercedes
p86, top: Indy 1914, Mulford in the same car, now with Peugeot L76/73 engine
p132, bottom right: the date is Sep 3, 1917, and I'm pretty sure that the unidentified man second from left is Omar Toft - this was pretty much a second-division event, and apart from Oldfield and Hearne there were no name-drivers present (Elliott and Boyer were still novices then), so it's anybody's guess who the sixth man is - I can't even vouch for Cadwell and Burt, but if that's really Burt (and not Cadwell's mechanic), then the ex-Burman Peugeot he was driving (named after L. C. Erbes, the owner) possibly had one of the new SOHC Miller 289 engines instead of the Miller-modified and Burman-labelled DOHC Peugeot L56 (note the very prominent Miller lettering on their coveralls)! Incidentally, Toft did almost certainly not drive a Miller here (as per Phil Harms' data), but the Duesenberg-engined Omar (see pp 28 & 66)
p123: I am rarely confident of my Chevrolets, but I believe this is Gaston rather than Louis
p138, top right: In the same vein, I think this is Louis and not Arthur

to be continued...

[Henri Greuter]

Fines,

I know someone who must be fearing the day you're gonna deal with another book and make corrections on that one....
Impressive job, thanks for the efforts!


Henri Greuter

[fines]

Thanks, Henri! For the unknown author (in our midst???), there's no fear necessary except if for deliberate sloppy editing...

[Jim Thurman]

Again, great work Michael

Have you contacted Dick Wallen about these or his upcoming releases covering later eras of Champ Car racing?


Jim Thurman

[fines]

Originally posted by fines
to be continued...

Board Track

p43: left is the 1907 Sizaire & Naudin (1 cyl., 1.3 litre), right is the 1908 Sizaire & Naudin (1 cyl., 2.0 litre) which won the Coupe de l'Auto in the hands of Naudin
p44, bottom right: not the 'Venice GP', but the Vanderbilt Cup - the year is 1915, of course
p62, top left: Tetzlaff at Indy 1914, in 445 CID Maxwell 4 cyl.
p62, bottom left: Carlson at Indy 1915, in 298 CID Maxwell 4 cyl.
p62, bottom right: Burman at Tacoma 1915, in the Burman-Peugeot (1913 Peugeot EX3 chassis and copy of engine, both modified by Miller)
p67, bottom left: Hearne/Hartz at Tacoma 1919, July 4, in Chevrolet or Durant-Stutz, still carrying #14 from Indianapolis
p68, top right: Durant/Comer at Tacoma 1919, July 4, in Chevrolet-Stutz
p68, bottom right: Mulford/Eastman at Tacoma 1919, July 4, in Frontenac
p68, bottom far right: Resta/Dahnke at Tacoma 1919, July 4, in Resta Special , still carrying #1 from Sheepshead Bay (see http://www.atlasf1.c...highlight=resta for a detailed discussion about the car)
p74, bottom far right: puzzling picture, this is definitely Tacoma 1920 (see top right picture, background), but neither Miller nor the #31 Duesey are supposed to be here, according to Phil's data - maybe a non-starter? It could also possibly be Red Fetterman, who drove the car at Uniontown a fortnight earlier!? I'm going for Miller, though...
p80: this picture contradicts Phil's statistics in a few points such as starting order and numbers, but most of all it shows the very distinctive #9 Leach-Miller of Frank Elliott, who shouldn't be there at all! That's probably the reason why Elliott is included in the drivers picture on p77...
p105, bottom far left: this is not the 1916 Astor Cup Race, but the 1915 Grand Prize, and the car is the (in)famous Ono - for a car that has finished third in a full-blown Grand Prix, very little is known about it. It was probably built in 1914 by Pope-Hartford dealer Bert Dingley, a green Fiat chasssis with a Pope engine. Dingley crashed at Tacoma, and retired from racing, after which the car was rebuilt (?) and run by Hughie Hughes in early 1915. Notice the thread pattern of the rear wheels: it says "NON-SKID-NON-SKID-NON..." The car behind is Claude (Al?) Newhouse's Delage Y
p129, bottom: another pic of Hughes and the Ono. The mechanic resembles Marcel Treyvoux in looks, but I've no record of him riding with Hughes
p139, top left: G. Chevrolet/Bresnahan at Tacoma 1920, July 5
p140: Thomas/Treyvoux at Tacoma 1920, July 5
p141, top far left: these are indeed O'Donnell and Jolls, but at Tacoma, July 5
p141, top left: Sarles at Tacoma with a Duesenberg, so it must be either 1921 or 1922
p145: Mulford/Eastman at Tacoma in 1919, July 4, old grandstands behind (burned down in 1920)
p146: Murphy at Tacoma in 1920, July 5, new grandstands behind (built in 1920), mechanic Ernie Olson
p326, top right: interesting picture this, it shows Lockhart at his ill-fated AAA debut at Culver City on March 1, 1925 - the car is the ex-Murphy Miller 122, now owned by his cousin Richard "Dick" Doyle and later sold to Frank Elliott. Lockhart had a spectacular spin on the board track in practice, and was banned by AAA for the rest of the year - his next race would be Indianapolis 1926... (which he won, of course! )

to be continued...

[Henri Greuter]

Michael,

I know Bob Schilling knows about your work (I informed him about it)
I wonder what Dick Wallen will say about it!


Great work.

Henri Greuter

[fines]

Thanx, Henri!

A small correction of my own post:

p326, top right: interesting picture this, it shows Lockhart at his ill-fated AAA debut at Culver City on March 1, 1925 - the car is the ex-Murphy Miller 122, now owned by his cousin Richard "Dick" Doyle and later sold to Frank Elliott. Lockhart had a spectacular spin on the board track in practice, and was banned by AAA for the rest of the year - his next race would be Indianapolis 1926... (which he won, of course! ) [/B]

I had only browsed through Gary Doyle's book when I wrote this; now that I have read the first chapter, I need to make clear that Dick Doyle wasn't Murphy's cousin, but probably the spouse of Murphy's cousin Marguerite "Bess" O'Donnell and... Gary's grandfather!!!? Gary, can you confirm?

[paulhooft]

Hope Dick will send us some Errata someday..
If possibly it is included in the price we paid for the books...
Paul

[fines]

Originally posted by fines
p35, bottom: picture is taken at the 1915 American Grand Prize, San Francisco - first appearance of the new "narrow" Stutz with single exhaust (Anderson/Rooney), Wilcox/Evans and Cooper/Dutton are still in the old 1913 cars.

Good thing I'm keeping databases...

While checking on something else, I came upon this anomaly: Dave Evans in 1915? Riding mechanic for Stutz? Naah, this must be Dave Lewis!!! And right I was, checking the picture it's indeed Lewis, not Evans! I had taken the info from the book and put into my database without realising...

Can't blame Wallen, though - for ages I've been confusing these two names, even though one of them has the same name as the guitarist in one of my favourite rock bands! Funny thing, the brain seems to store the information like "Dave + common surname", and there you go!


__________________
But if the cause be not good
The king himself has a heavy reckoning to make
When all those legs and arms and heads
Chopped off in a battle
Shall join together at the latter day
And cry all 'We died at such a place'

Some swearing, some crying for a surgeon
Some upon their wives left poor behind them
Some upon the debts they owe
Some upon their children rawly left

I am afeared there are few die well
That die in a battle
For how can they charitably dispose of any thing
When blood is their argument?
Now, if these men do not die well
It will be a black matter
For the king that led them to it

[fines]

While looking for something else...

Fabulous Fifties

p501, bottom left: this is not Bob Veith in the Tiz-So, but very probably Jim Packard in the very similar (but not identical ;)) Glessner Special.

[You see, this was also in the summer of '59...;)]

[fines]

Board Track

p23: racing scenes from the Indy 500 - left - 1913 start: Bragg (Mercer) leading from Guyot (Sunbeam), Liesaw (Anel), Evans (Mason), Herr (Stutz), etc. - middle - 1914 start: Wilcox (Gray Fox), Tetzlaff (Maxwell), Chassagne (Sunbeam), Carlson (Maxwell), Chandler (Braender), Carl Fisher (Stoddard-Dayton pace car) - right - 1912: Zengel (Stutz) to the left
p28: drivers are alright, Thomas is mechanic of Pullen, Reeves Dutton mechanic of Cooper, cars from left to right: 1914/5 Duesenberg, 1916 Omar, 1915 Stutz, V12 Sunbeam, 1913 Mercer, 1914 Gordon (Mercer 35 Special), 1915 (?) Mercer and 1916 Milac - pictures probably taken March 1916 in California (Ascot Park or Corona)
p40, right: 1917 Hudson line-up, presumably before June 16 Chicago Derby
p55, bottom left: 1920 Duesenbergs of Joe Thomas (#5) and Roscoe Sarles (#6) in 1921, behind cars: Jimmy Murphy, Albert Guyot, Louis Inghibert and Joe Boyer
p57, top far left: car is probably 1915 Stutz
p57, top left: behind Sarles in white cap is Albert Guyot (Indianapolis 1921)
p57, bottom left: car is 1916 Frontenac, probably ex-Mulford
p103: this is Eddie Rickenbacher (Maxwell), not Gil Anderson (Stutz), and the race is the 1916 Metropolitan, not 1915 Astor Cup. Following is Jules DeVigne (Delage), one lap down and about to finish second. Interestingly, Rickenbacher is usually given #11 in this race, his teammate Henderson having #5 - apparently, the two swapped cars before the final, Henderson being a DNS!
p107, top far left: this is Resta, but the car is the Peugeot EX3 he only drove at San Francisco in 1915
p107, bottom: a tough nut to crack, because not two reports agree on more than just a few points: the race is the 1916 Harkness Gold Trophy (Medal? Cup?) consy for all those who finished "outside the money" of the feature event, i.e. not in the top 6. First row, right to left: #14 Hughie Hughes (Hoskins), #15 Charley Devlin (Duesenberg), #17 Tommy Milton (Duesenberg), #29 Jimmy Meyer (Pugh), #18 Jack LeCain (Delage); 2nd row: #8 Art Klein (Crawford), #24 George Adams (Adams), #27 William Muller (Crawford), #6 Dave Lewis (Premier), #5 Ira Vail (Hudson); behind is the most puzzling car here: apparently a white #21, which would fit in with the ex-works Duesenberg recently acquired by William Weightman and driven by Earl DeVore in Mew York, but since this car finished fifth in the feature event, it shouldn't be here at all! Perhaps it just happened to be on the grid by coincidence, since its position doesn't quite compute as well - would be 15th on a 11-car grid
Only car missing (as per results provided by Don Capps) is George Buzane's Arthur Bernstein-owned #25 Duesenberg, but this car should be of a darker colour - on the other hand, the Rumbledrome website has a photo of a light-coloured #25 "drop-frame" Duesenberg dicing with two Peugeot (#4 & #10) on the Sheepshead Bay banking, and it's difficult to link this picture to another event! Perhaps the dark-coloured Duesenberg of Buzane (photos exist of it from before and after this event) is an entirely different car?
p110: this is not a Sunbeam, but a 1913 GP Excelsior - pictured at Indy in 1914, where Christiaens finished 6th with it
p130, bottom right: this is not a Premier, but one of the 1916 Indianapolis Sunbeam 6-cylinders - picture probably taken at Chicago a fortnight later, where Galvin managed 5th place
p184, bottom right: car is Hudson Super 6
p188, bottom right: the year is 1920, #5 is Roscoe Sarles, and #2 Eddie Pullen (Richards)!
p189, top left: the chassis is the same, but this is the Durant/Duesenberg, not /Miller
p219: for Ernie Olson read Al Nelson (or, perhaps Nielsen, Nielson, Neilson etc.)

And now for something completely different...

Even Tommies do make mistakes sometimes, here's the:

William Court books caption correction

Well, it's singular, at least! Volume 1,

p89, #199: this is the start of the 1916 Corona alright, but #11 is Barney Oldfield (Delage S), #4 Eddie Pullen (1913 Mercer), #15 Ed Waterman (1916 Gandy) - the lonely RF wheel just visible on the right belongs to Hughes and the V12 Sunbeam...

[guyp]

In a posting from a couple of years ago, user Fines mentioned that very little was known about the "ONO," a car that raced in the 1911-1916 era(See partial post below).



p105, bottom far left: this is not the 1916 Astor Cup Race, but the 1915 Grand Prize, and the car is the (in)famous Ono - for a car that has finished third in a full-blown Grand Prix, very little is known about it. It was probably built in 1914 by Pope-Hartford dealer Bert Dingley, a green Fiat chasssis with a Pope engine. Dingley crashed at Tacoma, and retired from racing, after which the car was rebuilt (?) and run by Hughie Hughes in early 1915. Notice the thread pattern of the rear wheels: it says "NON-SKID-NON-SKID-NON..." The car behind is Claude (Al?) Newhouse's Delage Y



I have a little bit of information, taken from my late father's memoirs and from personal memory, about the ONO which might be interesting, informative and/or amusing to those interested in the early cars.

The car is a 1911 120hp Fiat, one of three brought to the United States in 1911. In 1912, Teddy Tetzlaff drove the car to victory at the Santa Monica road race. Later, Bert Dingley removed the Fiat engine (which, as best I can remember hearing was a 589cid 4 cylinder.) and replaced it with a smaller Pope Portola engine from his "Baby Doll" Pope Hartford racing car. The Fiat engine was removed because it was now too large to be raced in AAA sanctioned races. The Fiat/Pope configuration was in place when Dingley overturned the car in 1914 at Tacoma. That was to be Dingley's last race. IN 1915, Hughie Hughes drove the ONO to third place at the Grand Prix race in San Francisco.

In 1919, the car was owned by a naval officer in San Diego, CA, and was stored at my grandfather's garage in San Diego. The officer and the ONO apparently had little regard for the city's 35MPH speed limit and had several run-ins with the law. The final straw was when he made a left turn at a high rate of speed, jumped the curb, knocked down a palm tree and narrowly missed running over a pedestrian. The officer was arrested and the judge told him he could get out of jail when he produced documentation showing he had sold the car. My grandfather was the best prospect, and so he got the ONO and the officer got out of jail.

The ONO was kept under cover until 1936 when my grandfather relocated his operations to South Gate, CA. There it sat out in the weather. My father put tires on the car and brought it home on December 7, 1941. I'm sure many of you will understand why my dad remembered the date. He restored the car. At this time, it was configured as a roadster. In 1954, my dad began to learn of the racing history of the car and removed the roadster fenders and windshield, and restored it to racing trim.

In the early 1950's he drove the car in the AAA Veteran Car races; mostly on the dirt track at Del Mar, CA.

The car was sold in the late 90's after undergoing a complete restoration back to its original bright green with gold stripe, is still in good running condition, and is now on display in a private museum in California.

While I have a couple of photos of the car from the 1950's, I do not have any from the cars 'real' racing days. Does anyone on the site have pictures, or access to pictures that I could get my hands on?

Thanks and I hope the short history was interesting.

[robert dick]

The frame of the Ono came from a Fiat S61, wheelbase 275 cm, chain drive, original tire dimension 875 x 105 front, 880 x 120 rear.
Originally the Fiat S61 was built for the 1909 Grand Prix de l'ACF which was to be run on the Circuit de l'Anjou near Angers but was cancelled. The Fiat displaced 10 liters with the bore/stroke dimensions of 130/190 mm. It had a single overhead camshaft operating four 57-mm valves per cylinder. Output 130 hp at 1900 rpm. Three Fiats were shipped to America in 1910 and started in the Grand Prize at Savannah, driven by Nazzaro, Wagner and DePalma.
One of these three cars ended up in the hands of the Los Angeles attorney Eugene E. Hewlett, and was driven by Teddy Tetzlaff. In 1913, the Hewlett Fiat was sold to Los Angeles society man Frank Young.

In 1913, Young was riding mechanic for Bert Dingley in the desert race to Phoenix.
Since 1911 Dingley drove Pope-Harfords for the Los Angeles Pope dealer William "Wild Bill" Ruess (the Ruess agency was located at Tenth and Olive Street). In July 1913 Dingley took full charge of Ruess' sales department.

So it was no surprise that some day during the winter of 1913-14 the Fiat chassis received a Pope-Hartford engine. The cylinder dimensions were 4.7/5.7 inches, 395 cubic inches, with 2.125-inch valves (OHV head).

Why was it named Ono?

[guyp]

Robert - Family history suggests that the group was sitting around a table, drinking beer, trying to come up with a name for the car. After every suggestion, one of the group would exclaim "Oh no!" to the suggested name. Late in the evening, one of the members announced "I'm going home. You can name the car 'Oh no' for all I care."

The story was attributed to Bert Dingley but I have no verification of that. I know my dad did meet him.

Originally posted by robert dick
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Why was it named Ono? [/B]

[fines]

Something I missed when posted - thanks guyp (and Robert, of course ;)), indeed a wonderful and interesting (hi)story!

Meanwhile, to continue the main aim of the thread:

Fabulous Fifties

p46, top left: this is Ruttman alright, but in 1956 - car is the '55 Speedway winner
p98, right: cars are Morales/Offenhauser #2 (I think), Sam Nigro Famighetti/Offenhauser? #15 and (Mel) Leighton/Riley #12
p106, top right: probably driver presentation, not the race line-up - too many cars! Following Russo (Caruso-Kurtis/Offenhauser) in order are: Johnnie Parsons (Ted Nyquist Hillegass/Offenhauser), Joe Barzda (Barzda-Kurtis/Ford), Joe Sostilio (Dutch Culp Hillegass/Offenhauser), Jimmy Bryan (Leitenberger/Offenhauser), Tommy Hinnershitz (own Hillegass/Offenhauser), Duane Carter (own Malloy-Agajanian/Offenhauser), Johnnie Matera (Matera/Hal), Charlie Musselman???, Ben Smorto?, etc... in the 6th row left, next to the man taking a leak (!!!?), appears to be Bill Schindler, 7th row right Mark Light (own Hillegass/Offenhauser), etc.
p106, bottom far right: year should be 1950
p115, top left: first impressions can be deceptive - the place is clearly Williams Grove, and the car appears to match as well (even the colour scheme is similar to the "Burd" livery of the '41 Speedway winner, which meanwhile goes by the name of "Jack Robbins Special"), but the car is in fact the (Milt) Marion/Offenhauser, a pre-war non-championship car that I have running as #3 in 1945, #1 in 1946, #4 in 1947 and #2/12 in 1948, driven by Brown several times - my last note about it is from a June 1950 crash at Williams Grove involving another car owned by, ironically, one Ralph Robbins - another small detail: the three fatally injured drivers had been the three slowest qualifiers, but had not comprised the last row at Indy that year since they had qualified on three different days and thus been spread well over the field
p116, top far right: year must be 1953 - or perhaps December '52, first appearance of the new colour scheme for the car? Note car in background, possibly the same as the midget(?) in bottom right picture!
p173, top middle left: this is Vukovich in 1951, car is the Central Excavating Special
p370, top right: this picture shows Sachs in 1954 with the Zink-KK4000 he drove at Sacramento & Phoenix; at Williams Grove in 1955 he drove another KK4000 for Ray Brady
p447, top far left and middle left: these pictures were obviously taken in practice, because Bryan (note his trademark cigar!) drove the dirt car in the race (cf p446)
p504, top right: picture from 1958 Milwaukee 200 Mile meet, car is the Central Excavating Kuzma/Offenhauser built in 1952 - Elisian crashed fatally driving the 1959 Travelon Trailer roadster, the same car Jim Hurtubise used to pulverise the Indy track records nine months later
p511, top left: again, a picture from the same event twelve months earlier, and the same car to boot - Sachs in the Central Excavating Kuzma he used after crashing his regular ride, the 1953 Schmidt Kuzma/Offenhauser, in practice - just a fortnight after scoring his biggest career win so far in that car

[fines]

Roar from the Sixties

p178, bottom right: wrong year - in 1962 George ran a new Meskowski dirt car, and the car pictured (the ex-Springfield Welding KK4000) ran with a Chevy V8 in this very race, actually starting right behind George in row 7
p220, bottom right: Foyt still drove his 1960 Meskowski at DuQuoin, the new car (pictured) appeared at Sacramento for the first time
p241, bottom right: this is an Indy picture and shows Foyt in the 1963 Watson, not the 1961 Watson-by-Trevis he used to win at Phoenix
p271, top left: this picture has to be from 1963, not 1964 - the track is clearly Springfield, but in '64 Clark can't have been there since he ran at Zeltweg that weekend, also Marshman's dirt car had a new tail section and a black rollover bar then (cf pp 189, 272 & 274). One year earlier, though, Clark was in the States in order to run (and win) at Milwaukee the next day!
p298, bottom: this is the Arciero Brothers Special, not the Harrison - a Weisman/Maserati against an Eisert/Chevrolet
p304, top right: McCluskey, not Leonard, following Andretti
p385, below: Liguori crashed on a warm-up lap, so it doesn't make sense to speculate about his average speed - car is 1965 Watson/Ford
p386, top left: this is Ruby's back-up car, crashed by Lee Roy Yarbrough on May 12
p386, bottom left: Jeff and Michael Andretti prepare for their rookie tests - both were rejected by USAC and told to get more experience
p387, top right: this appears to be Hill's back-up car, a type 38 Lotus/Ford (#80)
p392, top right: this is Clark at Spa-Francorchamps
p398, top left: Bobby Unser at Riverside, I believe
p398, top right: this is Riverside, not Mosport, and I believe it is actually Foyt in McCluskey's car - followed by the Unser brothers (sandwiching Vukovich?)
p430, bottom left: I haven't seen many pictures of Stardust Raceway, but I'm 99 % positive this is Riverside, not Vegas
p440, top left: pictured is the 1969 STP/Plymouth
p440, bottom: a slip of the line: Rutherford crashed in Turn 4 on lap 126, not Turn 2 on lap 110 (that was Graham Hill, who finished 19th - Rutherford finished 18th in car #18, something he would make quite a bit of a habit of...)
p441, below: a pace lap, not lap one
p445, top left: for Norm Brown read Bay Darnell
p446, top left: for Leonard read Pollard
p446, bottom left: this picture is from the August 200-miler - both cars have the wider tyres introduced in July and Andretti is in Hawk II (Hawk III in June), while Johncock's mount has a long-distance fuel tank attached to its left side and the engine cover's missing (possibly a replacement chassis)
p448, bottom left: Gurney during practice at Indy
p450, top left: Hurtubise during practice at Indy
p454, top: this is probably Tingelstad in the Watson/Ford, not Mosley
p457, bottom left: except for the missing tea-tray rear wing (cf p479), I'd say this is Phoenix in April - maybe a practice shot?
p458, bottom left: DuQuoin picture
p470, top left: for Mosley read Snider
p471, bottom left: for Dallenbach read Beale
p471, bottom right: this is the trophy for the Rex Mays Tribute race, so it must be 1969 and Riverside
p477, bottom left: picture from 200-miler in March - all cars have the narrow tyres, Ruby is still in his '67 Mongoose, behind is the Hayhoe Racing '65 Vollstedt which wasn't even present in November, Andretti still has a Ford in his Hawk II and Al Unser has a normally aspirated Ford in his Lola T92 instead of a TCF in a Lola T150 (while I'm not sure about the 4wd car, the engine spec is certain: Al retired because of turbocharger trouble!)
p478, bottom: this is the Jimmy Bryan 150 in April - note narrow tyres on all cars, also McCluskey has a Ford instead of the turbocharged Offy and Ruby is in his '67 car
p479, top left: also Jimmy Bryan 150 in April - in addition to McCluskey, Andretti and Johncock also still have a Ford instead of a TCO
p479, bottom left: this car appears to have undergone quite a few changes during the year, including a new (Eagle Mk4-inspired?) front suspension, note also different nosecone from picture top right (Phoenix) - this here is possibly from Hanford
p481, bottom left: Pollard and Leonard were not teammates, they merely drove the same type of car - the former for STP/Granatelli, the latter for Vel's Parnelli Jones
p481, bottom right: this is Andretti in Hawk II with the turbocharged Offy, Mario drove Hawk III with an unblown Ford in this race - picture probably from Hanford
p482, top left: for Leonard read Pollard
p484, top right: this is Ruby in the monocoque Mongoose at Indy
p484, bottom right: this is not Follmer taking the lead, but lying 4th early in the race, followed by Foyt, Fejer (already lapped), Ruby, McCluskey, Johncock and Dallenbach
p489, top right and bottom left: though Carl Williams drove #57 in the race, this is Art Pollard taking a practice "spin" in it
p498, bottom right: Gurney and Andretti alright, but almost certainly at Riverside, not Castle Rock
p500, top left: I'd say this is Hanford, not Trenton
p504, top right: Bettenhausen, not McCluskey
p506, top: line-up for the race, not qualifications - nearest camera are Sessions in Tassi Vatis's 1960 Vollstedt and Bigelow in Carl Gehlhausen's 1951 Kurtis-Kraft
p510, bottom left: this is Johncock in his Gerhardt/TCO, not the Eagle/Ford he drove at Brainerd; track looks like Hanford to me
p510, bottom right: Al Unser almost certainly at Riverside, not Brainerd
p513, top left: Vukovich at the Hoosier 100, not Sacramento
p516, bottom left: Andretti at Riverside, not Kent

[john glenn printz]

I believe I can make two more corrections to mistaken photograph captions in Dick Wallen's 1990 BOARD TRACK book.

(1.) The photo on page 132 (bottom, right) dates from the Uniontown 168.75 of 29 Oct. 1917. The individuals involved are, left to right, 1. Joe Boyer, 2. Omar Toft, 3. unknown - but probably Anderson's riding mechanic, 4. Gil Anderson, 5. unknown, and 6. Eddie Hearne.

(2.) The gentleman standing next to Ralph DePalma (on page 271) is not Douglas Fairbanks, neither Senior or Junior, but I do not know who the man is. A picture of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. however, is contained on page 184 (top, right). Here the real Fairbanks is with Ralph DePalma, Peter DePaolo, and Joe Boyer.

Printz

[Michael Ferner]

Board Track

p397, bottom far left: Herman Schurch was married October 18 in 1930, not '31; thus he was married for 386 days rather than 19. Not a terribly important statistic, but the wedding took place in quite unusual circumstances, a nice story in itself: Herman and Florence (or Dorothy?) Turner (of Westerleigh, Staten Island) married on the front stretch of Langhorne Speedway moments before the last race of the season, for which Schurch had qualified a few hours before with a new track record of 36.4", very nearly 100 mph. Fellow racer Billy Winn was best man, and the wife of ace promoter Ralph Hankinson maid of honour. Lots of interesting angles to the story, with the bride wearing a "stunning black coat trimmed with a silver fox collar" (contrasting nicely with the "huge bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums" she was holding), and her former fiancé (a Staten Island newspaper man) dramatically arriving in time and asking to change her mind, then Schurch climbing into his Miller to start off in pole position, losing the lead and regaining it in the first five laps before retiring half an hour later. When was the last time something likem that happened in F1?