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This Dirt Track Racer was built for Fred Sclavi of Charleston, West Virginia, who owned Belt Lines Trucking. It was built by Wally Menkowski and Joe Silnes, and was known as the 'Silnes Chassis.' While Sclavi owned the car it was driven by A.J. Shepherd, Roger McLuskey, Bobby Grim and Johnny Rutherford. Rutherford took his 1st Championship ride (the Hoosier 100) at the Indiana State Fairground in September 1962, starting 18th and finishing 15th. In 1963 George Walther, owner of Dayton Foundry of Dayton, Ohio, bought the car and ran it on 'Dayton Steel Wheel Special.' He had driven such as Johnny Rutherford, Parnell Jones, Bud Ingestad, Lloyd Ruby, Arnie Knepper, Joe Leonard, Billy Foster, George Snider and Bill Puterbaugh. One of Geoge's sons, Scott Wather, It failed to qualify for what turned out to be this car's last race at the Indiana Fairgrounds in September 1968. It sat idle until 2002 when it became part of the current owners collection.
FORD'S SUPPLIER DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: 35 YEARS OF EMPOWERING MINORITY, WOMEN AND VETERAN BUSINESS OWNERS
 ◾ Ford's award-winning Supplier Diversity Development (SDD) program celebrates its 35th anniversary; since 1978 Ford has spent more than $67 billion with diverse suppliers ◾ In 2012 Ford spent $5.7 billion with tier-one minority-owned suppliers, $1.2 billion with tier-one women-owned suppliers, and $2.1 billion with tier-one suppliers who use tier-two minority- and women-owned businesses ◾ A diverse supplier base brings a fresh perspective that can lead to cutting-edge innovations and help ac...[Read more...]
12C GT3 Now Approved To Race In North America, As Pirelli World Challenge Confirms Eligibility
•12C GT3 is eligible to race in the Pirelli World Challenge Series •Pirelli World Challenge supports the IZOD IndyCar series •McLaren has claimed five back-to-back Can-Am titles (1967-71) and three Indy500 victories (1972, 1974, 1976) in an illustrious racing history in the North American market The McLaren 12C GT3 has been confirmed as eligible for the Pirelli World Challenge (PWC), by the series organisers following a strong competitive debut season in Europe. This announcement means t...[Read more...]
PORSCHE MOTORSPORT NORTH AMERICA PURCHASES HISTORIC ANDIAL NAME
Santa Ana, Calif. - February 14 - With the last active owner Dieter Inzenhofer retiring later this month, the legendary ANDIAL name will stay in the Porsche family as Porsche Motorsports North America, Inc. (PMNA) announced it has purchased the brand for future use. ANDIAL is an anagram made from the names of the founding members - the late Arnold Wagner AN; Dieter Inzenhofer DI; and former PMNA president and current consultant Alwin Springer AL. From the company's formation in 1975, ...[Read more...]
2013: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF McLAREN
'Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.' When a 27-year-old Bruce McLaren penned those words in 1964, his new company, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd, was less than a year old. In those days, Bruce's vision was shared by fewer than half a dozen loyal souls, who slogged across the world to race his self-made cars. Nowadays, the McLaren Group employs more than 2000 people, all of whom still share Bruce's ideals of combining sportsmanship with solid engineering practice ...[Read more...]
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