Car numbers

[trecraft]

Does anyone know why Bob Weikert used the number 46 on the USAC cars.

[Buildy]

USAC Probably assigned Weikert the number. Back then when we had a champ car USAC told us what number we were,we did not tell them.

Remember Bogar when they went USAC. #99? No, USAC assigned them #90.

[STEVE PATTERSON]

Back in the day USAC gave you the number in how you finished in points the year before.. AJ and Mario seamed to have ther share of number ones..But I think when Mitch Smith ran USAC at the Grove his number stayed as 5?

[Buildy]

For the top guys. I`m not sure how far back they went but usually the champ and maybe top ten went by points the season before. After that a lot of times they assigned numbers in the order that the entries came in. One year we got number 102 we weren`t 102nd in points the year before we just sent the entry stuff in really late. The year before that we were # 52 and the year before that #68. Kept the lettering guys busy,anyway...


Some years AJ was #14-he sure wasn`t ever 14th in points...


Mitch was on a Temp Permit when he Whipped USAC 3 times in 1971 I`d have to look at the photos they might have made him tape an X on behind his number if there was a USAC #5 car at those races.

[Brent Leach]

I'm pretty sure Mitch was number 11.

[Popboon]

I have a pic I took of the all-white Wasson sprinter with a No. 11 on.

[Buildy]

I found a pic of him with #5 at one of the three 71 USAC races,maybe Selinsgrove. The car had the stripes on the nose and tail and a plain white hood.

[Buildy]

Anyway,the thing is,Weikert was not going to get #29 as Boston Louie Seymour had that number locked up.Probably someone already had #92,also.

[SK-11]

The first nite Mitch ran the car it was not painted they just put it together on Wed.
USAC told them they needed a number so D. Hench put two strips of black elec. tape
on the tail thus no. 11, if you remember when they first started it, the motor sounded
like a machine gun til D**k Hench worked his Magic and the rest is History !!!!!

[LEE GREENAWALT]

Reading 1979!

[ezstreet]

Great shot of Pitzer.

[supertc88]

Great shot of Pitzer.

[Brent Leach]

The first nite Mitch ran the car it was not painted they just put it together on Wed.
USAC told them they needed a number so D. Hench put two strips of black elec. tape
on the tail thus no. 11, if you remember when they first started it, the motor sounded
like a machine gun til D**k Hench worked his Magic and the rest is History !!!!!

Yup.

[CTtoPA]

Didnt Mitch destroy the other car which prompted Wasson to get on the horn with Floyd Trevis and get him to build another one in time for USAC?