The last Weld car.

Buildy · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:43 pm

As seen at the EMMR 3-31-12. I believe there was some discussion of this car on here before.

dirty race boy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:00 am

DavidM · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:16 am

Great series of photos on a pretty cool and innovative car. Interesting that Adrian Newey of Red Bull (Vettel’s) team was playing with redirecting the exhaust out of the car last year in F1 and Weld was doing this on his sprinter back in 1988.

I remember the night Kenny showed up at the Groove with this car!

supertc88 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:48 am

felix12 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:50 am

Pretty sure he won a heat race at Hagerstown in this car.

GOSHOW · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:01 pm

Rack and pinion steering.. :thumbleft:

RacerRose · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:19 pm

felix12 wrote:

Pretty sure he won a heat race at Hagerstown in this car.

Correct.

1080 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:19 pm

Like GoShow said...the steering is realy unique.

What caught my eye was the simple innovative way of moving the wing with the hand crank. The workmanship is flawless. What a mind!

:cheers2:

Wax · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:59 pm

also kool is the single rear wing support,wouldn't it be even kooler if car builders could be this innovative today.

Buildy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:21 am

Jack Hedstrom sent me this photo of a T-shirt of the car that Kenny Weld personally sent to Jack.

Swandogg · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:47 am

Great pics, Buildy!! :thumbright:

This is cool for me because i actually got to see this car race at Lernerville on July 27, 1988 - the 1st sprint car race I ever attended! A great night...made me a sprint car fan for life!! :yessss:

The feature results for that night: :thumbleft:

A Feature- 1: Swindell, Sammy (1 - Annett) 2: Kinser, Steve (11) 3: Swindell, Jeff (11x - Williams) 4: Wolfgang, Doug (18 - Kepler) 5: Davis, Jr., Bobby (10 - Luna) 6: Hillenburg, Andy (2) 7: Sills, Jimmy (29 - Weikert) 8: Blaney, Dave (48 - Nott) 9: Allen, Joey (7c - Chupp) 10: Eash, Cris (17e) 11: Kinser, Mark (6r - Reid) 12: Allen, Bobby (1a) 13: Green, Tim (14 - Owen) 14: Smith, Danny (57 - Nash) 15: Wooley, Greg (23) 16: Spithaler, Ralph (56s) 17: Felmlee, Bob (6) 18: Weld, Kenny (94 ) 19: Brunner, John (1b) 20: Priester, Scott (11x) 21: Lynch, Jr., Ed (2L) 22: Shaffer, Tim (45) 23: Banda, Doug (8) 24: Travers, **** (T9) :cheers2:

Jim Nise · **Joined:** Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:32 pm **Posts:** 82

So what was the reason for taking the left exhaust forward?

Looks like really small brakes up front as well, including the left front.

harddrive · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:33 am

1080 wrote:

... What caught my eye was the simple innovative way of moving the wing with the hand crank. The workmanship is flawless. What a mind! :cheers2:

... Kenny would have refined and/or abandoned innovative parts till it worked ... everything else he ever touch did/worked :yessss:

timmer wrote:

also kool is the single rear wing support, wouldn't it be even kooler if car builders could be this innovative today.

... WOO would have outlawed "innovative" if it was to win often :thinking:

supertc88 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:51 pm

Buildy wrote:

Jack Hedstrom sent me this photo of a T-shirt of the car that Kenny Weld personally sent to Jack.

COOL!

old racer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:49 pm

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