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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 04:43 AM |
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I hope someone out there can help me with this... My son is starting on his Senior Project for next year. He has to write a 15-20 page report to fulfil his graduation requirements. Unlike most of his fellow students, he is a 3rd generation racer and has decided to forego the standard report. He has chosen to pick a more challenging topic than the others. His goal is to do his project on the infamous Pink Lady.
We would like to get any information, stories, pictures, whatever you may have. I know this may be somewhat of overwhelming task for us, but this is very near to our hearts. He has been a fan of Kenny Hamilton's for years, but he would like to have other peoples inputs as well.
Thanks in advance!
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 04:15 PM |
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Let me get in touch with Kenny and see just how much history he knows of the car. It still runs at Meridian on occasion and at some select ASA/NSRA events. Send me your email and I will have him contact you. I'm not sure just how much he uses email cuz he's an old guy ya know.....lol.
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 06:09 PM |
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| bud vanosten used to drive the pink lady.curt might be able to contact him.
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 06:37 PM |
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| Travis.........call me today.....I accidently deleted your number....sorry.
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 08:11 PM |
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| I have some pictures of the Pink Lady that Grant King built in 1963 for Art Sugai. The fellow from Princraft in Boise has a bunch of pictures also.
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racnmom
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 09:28 PM |
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Al,
If I could get copies of those photos, I would be eteranally greatful! My e-mail is outlaw17@cableone.net
thx
also, I have tried to send steve at printcraft an email, the one listed on their site doesnt seem to work. Does anyone have an updated email for him?
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Posted: Tuesday Jan 29th, 2008 11:10 PM |
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If this is the same Pink Lady I am thinking of you might contact Sierra Jackson as she mention driving or about it alot on her webpage.
If not, then sorry and good luck.
Scott
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Posted: Wednesday Jan 30th, 2008 04:57 AM |
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Before he starts, the big question is, WHICH Pink Lady? Kenny Hamilton still has and drives the upright. However, the roadster was the more interesting incarnation of the Pink Lady, in my opinion. I can't remember when Art Sugai retired the roadster, but I do remember on occasion he brought both the roadster and the upright to race.
To me, the roadster is the more interesting because of the great men who drove it. Kenny Hamilton, Ron Porter, Jim Roberts, and even Art Pollard. Kenny Hamilton started out as a pit crew member on the roadster.
Oh, and if we want to stretch the "Pink Lady" name a bit farther, Rick Mears got his start in Art Sugai's Eagle Offy "Pink Lady" at Indy.
A great website to start out at is: http://www.onewest.net/~kc7esb/ There isn't a whole lot on the Pink Lady, but it is pictured on the main page. The website gives a great insight into the racing of that era.
This article gives a more complete picture of Kenny Hamilton's career driving for Art Sugai: http://idahoracingnews.com/node/70
What a wonderful subject for a paper! I hope your son will share it with us here after he completes it.
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Posted: Wednesday Jan 30th, 2008 07:06 AM |
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And then there was the Sky Valley Frank Tucker owned number 32 Pink Lady that was later owned by Stan Criswell....
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Posted: Wednesday Jan 30th, 2008 08:06 AM |
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T. Michael wrote: And then there was the Sky Valley Frank Tucker owned number 32 Pink Lady that was later owned by Stan Criswell....
And before that there was the Pink Lady roadster that ran at Aurora Speedway.
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Posted: Wednesday Jan 30th, 2008 01:26 PM |
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Would sure like to read it. please make it available, when finished, you might make that same request on our message boardhttp://www.westcoastvintageracers.com/
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Posted: Wednesday Jan 30th, 2008 02:37 PM |
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| I have some photos of Jerry Sneva driving the Pink Lady at the fairgrounds in Spokane, Washington. Will try and locate them...Will make a great story!
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Posted: Thursday Jan 31st, 2008 05:45 PM |
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Here's a couple of pictures I have of Jerry Sneva in the Pink Lady Big-Block:
B&W:http://images22.fotki.com/v757/photos/4/473017/2995850/10127510-vi.jpg
Color: http://images14.fotki.com/v379/photos/4/473017/2995816/1026741005-vi.jpg
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Posted: Thursday Jan 31st, 2008 11:32 PM |
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The Pink Lady from Sky Valley was bought by Greg Curtis and on his first trip as owner of the Frank Tucker car put it on it's side in turn 4 at Skagit. The #32 was then called the InLaw Sprinter driven by Debbie (Kracke) Huson and Fred Brownfield. Was a history in that car #.
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Posted: Friday Feb 1st, 2008 09:08 PM |
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| Here are some pictures of the first Pink Lady sprint car Grant King built for Art Sugai in early 1963 in Victoria, B.C in Geoff Vantreight's shop. He built four cars . one for Geoff, one for Art, one for Frank Janet from Calgary, AB and one for Dick Midgley. Jack Eckman is driving the Pink Lady. Attachment: grant king 001.jpg (Downloaded 540 times)
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Posted: Friday Feb 1st, 2008 09:14 PM |
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| Jack eckman in car. Art Pollard and Art Sugai. Don't know the other gentleman Attachment: grant king 005.jpg (Downloaded 547 times)
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Posted: Friday Feb 1st, 2008 09:16 PM |
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| More in Vantreights shop Attachment: grant king 002.jpg (Downloaded 543 times)
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Posted: Friday Feb 1st, 2008 09:17 PM |
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| Geoff and Grant. Attachment: grant king 003.jpg (Downloaded 538 times)
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Posted: Friday Feb 1st, 2008 09:18 PM |
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| Jack Eckman winning. Attachment: grant king 004.jpg (Downloaded 531 times)
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Posted: Saturday Feb 2nd, 2008 07:14 PM |
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| Just wanted to share this picture I took of Ken Hamilton at Southsound around the mid '90s. Attachment: img070.jpg (Downloaded 478 times)
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 04:31 AM |
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CurtK wrote: Let me get in touch with Kenny and see just how much history he knows of the car. It still runs at Meridian on occasion and at some select ASA/NSRA events. Send me your email and I will have him contact you. I'm not sure just how much he uses email cuz he's an old guy ya know.....lol.
cwk52@verizon.net
Hey Curt ,, when you do get in touch with him ,,ask about how Tommy Fox used to tow 2 different Pink Lady Sprinters to the races ,, One was the big Block Grant King car and the other was a small block Watson car that was sold to Maggie Ford in about 1972 ish and Cliff Spalding drove it after that.. no idea where it went from there .. Both cars were identical in appearance except for the engines ,, Some days a small block worked better than the Rat motor,, I remember mostly Tom doing this for the IDC races in 70 and 71 ,, He was always late getting to the track and Kenny always had to time in with little or no practice,, He was always fast though. RJ
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 05:16 AM |
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I have a couple of pictures of Jerry and the Pink Lady.. This is one that was in the Edmonton newspaper after a bad night for Jerry .. These guys used to run about 9 lbs of air in the RR to start a race.. This is what happened that nite
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 05:19 AM |
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| Here is another of Jerry and Pinky with a great big trophy.. I think this was in Victoria in 1973 Attachment: JerrySnevaPinkLadyTrophy.JPG (Downloaded 402 times)
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 05:23 AM |
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| Here is another picture from Prince George in 1974.. the newspaper clipping with the flat tire was also 74 Attachment: JerrySnevaPinkLadyPG74.JPG (Downloaded 394 times)
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 05:32 AM |
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alwade32, I believe the unnamed gentleman in your picture with Jack Eckman, Art Pollard, and Art Sugai is Ken Hamilton...back when he started out on the pit crew.
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CurtK
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 20th, 2008 03:02 PM |
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alwade32 wrote: Jack eckman in car. Art Pollard and Art Sugai. Don't know the other gentleman
I would not be surprised if someone told me the other gentleman was a young Bob Vantreight, Gerry's dad.
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Posted: Thursday Feb 21st, 2008 05:04 PM |
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Bob46 wrote: Just wanted to share this picture I took of Ken Hamilton at Southsound around the mid '90s.
Somewhere I have a pic of this car from the front......somebody had really good airbrush skills. The painted lady on the hood really stood out. Back in those days the letter after the number designated where the car owner was from.....the U meaning Utah, D was for Colorado(Denver), C was California etc. I kinda miss those days....kinda.....lol.
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Posted: Wednesday Feb 27th, 2008 11:47 PM |
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Here is a close up shot Curt.....
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Posted: Thursday Feb 28th, 2008 03:59 AM |
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Hey Curt ,, when you do get in touch with him ,,ask about how Tommy Fox used to tow 2 different Pink Lady Sprinters to the races ,, One was the big Block Grant King car and the other was a small block Watson car that was sold to Maggie Ford in about 1972 ish and Cliff Spalding drove it after that.. no idea where it went from there ..
Here's a picture of the car that Cliff drove for Maggie, he called it "The Pink Bitch". I remember Cliff was the first driver to time-in at Spanaway in under 14 seconds with that car, that track record was short lived as it was broken the next weekend.
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Posted: Thursday Mar 6th, 2008 01:15 PM |
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As is mentioned in a more recent thread, Jim Roberts has passed away. If memory serves correctly. I believe he was at one time, a driver of the Grant King big block upright version of the Pink Lady.
RIP Jim.
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Posted: Saturday Mar 15th, 2008 06:53 PM |
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| Ed Sneva,Jerry's dad had a pink lady ( 2 door sedan ) that he ran @ the old Mead Speedway in Spokane years ago.
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Posted: Friday Mar 21st, 2008 02:08 AM |
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| The early Pink Lady Sprinter in this pic with Jack Eckman, still exists here in Boise. A fellow named Jack Warnke was still racing it as a Super Six Modified up untill about 2003, when it was severely damaged at Meridian Speedway. It was last seen locked inside it's enclosed trailer last year.
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Posted: Sunday Mar 30th, 2008 08:29 AM |
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Here's an item I found in a 1977 issue of Racing Wheels advertising the Pink Lady for sale:
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