Midget Racing Tank Tops
Description: The Offy is a racing engine design that dominated American open wheel racing for more than 50 years and is still popular among vintage sprint and midget car racers today. The keys to the engine's success and popularity was the rare combination of incredible power and reliability, two things racers usually had to choose between.
Description: Westboro Speedway was built by five World War II vets on 35 acres of former farmland in Westborough, Massachusetts. The track started out hosting midget racing, but eventually full size stock car racing became the track's primary focus. In addition to motorsports, Westboro Speedway also hosted countless rock concerts over the years. Like most racetracks, what was once a rural location was eventually surrounded by suburban sprawl that didn't take kindly to the raucous activities that went on there. That, coupled with the land being worth more to developers saw the track close its doors for good in 1985.
Description: Don Edmunds was an American racecar driver who had his first start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1957. He won the 1957 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year after finishing nineteenth, though Edmunds' Indy career ended with a serious practice accident at the Speedway the following year. In 1963, he founded Autoresearch in Anaheim, California, which specialized in building midget cars and sprint cars. Edmunds created the blueprints and did most of the fabrication work on the original Bill Thomas Cheetah prototype sports car racer. His chassis won several National Midget Championships in the late '60s and early '70s. Additionally, Edmunds was a prolific constructor of Formula Super Vee cars well into the '80s.
Description: Storied racing engine builders Jim Travers and Frank Coon joined forces to found TRACO Engineering in Culver City, California in 1957. The name was a portmanteau of the two men's last names (TRAvers & COon), and when the two combined, they ended up building some of the most successful road racing engines in American history. TRACO built race engines for many segments of motorsports including midgets, Indy, Can Am, Trans Am, and even built powerplants to spec for the big boys in Detroit. TRACO Engineering continued doing their thing throughout the '90s, but ultimately closed up shop in 1999.
