ARIZONA RACING MEMORABILIA

Enjoy this virtual collection!

11/11/57 Race Program autographed by Don Freeland and Sam Hanks

1942 Rulebook, Grand Canyon run, sponsored by Gilmore Oil

One of the best ways to document vintage racing in your neighborhood is through newspaper archives and old magazines, especially locally produced track programs and  club newsletters.

Keith Stribling contributed these photographs of an issue of "Desert Dust" - notice that Mel Larson is part of the editorial staff.

SOUTH PHOENIX, MANZANITA

Pit passes from Manzanita & South Phoenix, Schaut Photo

PROGRAMS 

JIMMY BRYAN 150, 1965 PRESS KIT, FROM Phoenix International Raceway "The Indianapolis of the West"

ALLEN HEATH, #5 CAR at the Fairgrounds Track, early 1950s

This 1963 program from the Bobby Ball 100 Mile Run has AJ Foyt, Roger Ward and Parnelli Jones on the cover - winners of the 1961, 1962 and 1963 Indy 500 races.  This race was one of the last held at the Arizona State Fairgrounds track at 19th Avenue & McDowell Road.

These photographs are from the display at the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tempe, Arizona

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