Question about old board track racers

[PatRedmond]

Looking for reference pics of this type of racer.

Jimmy Flintstone resin. Goes on an AMT 25 T chassis, etc.

[Harry P.]

Oh!

I thought you were looking for names...

[PatRedmond]

Not 'bored', board.

[Art Anderson]

Looking for reference pics of this type of racer.

Jimmy Flintstone resin. Goes on an AMT 25 T chassis, etc.

That's not really what I would call a board track racer, Pat. The legendary board (wooden) speedways were geared far more to cars that were also raced at Indianapolis in the era 1919-to about 1931, given that they were the first true superspeedways (Brooklands Race Track in the UK being the very first high banked hard surface racetrack).

Cars raced on the board speedways (tracks in places such as Marina Del Rey and Beverly Hills CA, Sheepshead Bay NJ, Altoona PA, Kansas City MO, Minneapolis MN, DEtroit, and Hammond IN). They ranged in length from 1 mile to 2.5 miles, constructed entirely from wood, the track surfaces generally made from 2X4 pine lumber laid on edge. Nearly all the tracks were the design work of Col. Art Herrington (the Herrington of Marmon-Herrington, himself well schooled in both Civil and Mechanical Engineering), and the legendary Beverly Hills track was in many ways the design model for Daytona International Speedway. Cars that ran were mostly Millers and Duesenbergs, with engine displacements starting at 300cid, dropped to 183cid in 1921, then 122cid 1922-25, finally 91.5cid for the years 1926-30, which cars would have seriously outclassed any Model T based cars.

Jimmy's body that you have is more like a 20's dirt track car, but generally those ran without the turtledeck trunk out back, and on perhaps 7' wheelbases max. Still, it's a neat body shell!

Art

[PatRedmond]

So some kind of scrambled together car really wouldn't be right or wrong, correct?

If the result is just some style of home built 'thingie' it's OK by me.

[Modelmartin]

That looks more like a 20s -30s hot rod or dry lakes racer. I think back then they called them Gow Jobs. I would suggest using the bits from the AMT 27 T touring. The wires will look about right and it should have a dropped T front axle.

I found this pic on Google. Pretty close to the Jimmy body. It looks like they used the Olds radiator from the Beverly Hillbillies kit. The Hop-up books that have been published the last few years have a lot of pics of these type cars. The turtle deck should be fine. Ed Iskenderian's famous T roadster had one.

[PatRedmond]

Thanks !!