Flathead Racing

[hkestes41]

Packing up for a move to Florida and found a few photos of my Dad's old race cars that he ran in the late 50s early 60s around the Joplin, MO area. The red and white coupe I'm pretty sure is a 32 Chrysler and believe the black and gold is the same car with the cowl cut off following a crash rebuild. Both are running flathead 6 Mopars.

 

Lot of new guys ask about the power potential of the flathead six and I can tell you Dad was pretty successful on the track. Now later on he did switch to V8s including a big block Mopar A sedan but did pretty well with the old flatheads. 

[hkestes41]

Here is another local guy who lived in the same small town we did named Bob Cooper that my dad sponsored also running a flathead Mopar. 

 

 

[Frank Gooz]

Great pictures.

Is there any one that know of any cars like that, That are still around?

[greg g]

There are 3 orfour groups in New York that run races for vintage dirt track modifiers.  Quite a few still around.

[ratfinkxxx]

Thanks for sharing those. Very cool.

[dudford]

On 3/30/2021 at 7:39 PM, hkestes41 said:

Here is another local guy who lived in the same small town we did named Bob Cooper that my dad sponsored also running a flathead Mopar. 

 

 

Cool pics Kirk, fair play to that roll hoop. Curious looking wide five axle/wheels? Be interested to see more if you uncover any, great history!