Sportsmans Speedway

A Tribute To The Former Finest Quarter-Mile High-Banked Oval Dirt Track In The Midwest 

 

 

The Drivers And Their Cars

The Early Years

 

What track would not be complete without the ambulance. This was one of my Dad's favorites. It was a converted hearse. Either way you were taken care of I guess.

   

 

 X Car David Gauldin  

 

 

 Number 75 ABC Shop Brookfield, MO

  

 

 

 Number 15 Driver Unknown

 

  

Number 14 Cunningham's Roger Lane.

 

  

 Number 8 With An Offenhauser Engine

 

 

Dr. Roehrs checks a driver after a crash.

 

 

Three things about this picture, one number 7 from the New Kar Mart in KC with a headless driver.  Two the lady with the suitcase, had she had enough of the racing life already?  Three, my grandfather Eugene Copas as the "Pit Boss" in the background sitting in the chair.

 

 

Unknown Winner

  

 

 Ray's Sincliar 22

 

 

 K-7 Ken Rafferty

 

 

 Number 22

  

 

"Red" Georgetown Garage Car 11

 

 

  Number 36 Unknown Driver

 

  

 00 Jones Welding Shop

 

  

 Number 26 With The Checkered

 

 

Cooks Mobil Service 7Sr With A Hiding Driver

 

 

 "Torch" Aleshire From The CMRA Yearbook

 

 

 The Hibbard Brothers

 

 

 The Great Ken Taylor. The Only Driver Killed At Sportsmans Speedway.

 

 

Number 43 Dempsey Riggins On The Top.

Bottom half complete with addresses of the single drivers in the CMRA Yearbook.  A much more innocent time gone by obviously.

 

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