Posted by Jerry/MT on May 27, 2012 at 13:27:14 from (206.183.116.145):
In Reply to: Indy 500 posted by John T on May 27, 2012 at 04:58:34:
I grew up in NW indiana and my memories of May was that it was Indy month. Some folks would actually take time off from work and go down the Naptown(NW Indiana slang for Indianapolis)to watch the time trials. It was the time of Offenhauser powered roadsters and before the Lotus invansion. When I was in college at Purdue they kept us pretty busy in engineering school but all the talk in the month of May was of the powerful cars and the drivers who rode in them. I remember the Novi engines, Andy Granetelli"s (?)four wheel drive car that I believe was gas turbine powered and almost won the race except for the failure of a $1.50 bearing (big news in engineering circles).
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