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The Encore in ’54 – Indianapolis 1954
(Bill Vukovich Winning)

1982 INDIANAPOLIS 500 - "LEGENDS OF THE 500" & "RUN FOR THE BRICKS"

The Dominant
Blue Crowns
 - Indy 1946-194

Troy's Triumph:
Indy 1952

RACE AGAINST
THE HEAT
- Indianapolis 1953


BORN RACER

Lightning Al (Indy 1970)

Lightning Strikes Twice (Indy 1971)

GODSPEED: The Story of Page Jones

1965-1967 USAC
Indy Car Highlights

1968 Rex Mays 150
 Indy Car Race

The Winning
Combination - Indy 1966

Open Wheel Legends:
A Conversation with
Mario Andretti,
Dan Gurney
& Parnelli Jones

 The Roadster’s
Last Triumph
– Indianapolis 1964

Midget, Sprint & Champ
Dirt Highlights, Vol. 2


Midget, Sprint & Champ Dirt Car Highlights,
Vol 3

Challenge of the New Breed
- Indianapolis - 1963

Dawn of the Rear Engine
Era: (Indianapolis) 1965


Golden Victory:
(Indianapolis) 1961

Eastern Speedway Classics

URC–The First 50 Years

Eastern Midget Classics

Open Cockpit Classics

The Flying Dutchman

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The Encore in ’54 – Indianapolis 1954
(Bill Vukovich Winning)

All the excitement from the month of May 1954 at Indianapolis. Practice, qualifying and the race, won for the second time in a row by the great Bill Vukovich, the year before he lost his life trying for his third victory in the 500.

 B&W and Color, approx. 58 minutes with 5 minutes of bonus footage of cars that missed the race.


















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1982 INDIANAPOLIS 500
"LEGENDS OF THE 500" &
"RUN FOR THE BRICKS"

Includes two professionally produced films: “Legends of the 500” by Championship Racefilms, narrated by Paul Page for Goodyear, has the most complete qualifying and race coverage.

“Run For The Bricks” by Car & Track Productions, narrated by George Plimpton, is told from the perspective of the Red Roof Inns #19 March Cosworth team and rookie driver, Bobby Rahal.

Each film shows different footage highlighting the 1982 Indy 500 and the story of the month leading up to the spectacular classic on Memorial Day.

Color. 51 min. total.

 

 

 

 



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The Dominant Blue Crowns
 - Indy 1946-1949


After four years of war, it was uncertain that there would even be an Indianapolis 500, but three-time winner Wilbur Shaw didn’t want to see the Speedway go the way of the wrecking ball, so he looked for interested buyers who would preserve the Speedway. He found such a buyer in Anton “Tony” Hulman Jr. It would take a miracle to get the track ready for a race in May of 1946, but amazingly Tony and Wilbur pulled it off and the 1946 ‘500’ was a success.


As most pre-war cars had been stored away, there were only a handful of new cars built for the 1946 500, one of them being the Novi. Former driver turned car owner Lou Moore liked the idea of the sleek cigar-shaped front-drive Novi, and he built two smaller versions with Offenhauser engines for 1947 and thus the Blue Crown Spark Plug Specials were born.


“The Dominant Blue Crowns” brings you 65 minutes of color & B&W film in DVD format with music, engine sounds and narration from the exciting post-war era of 1946 - 1949 highlighted by three wins for the Blue Crown team. There is also approx. 15 minutes of B&W BONUS footage from 1948 and 1949 which has music only (no engine sounds or narration).

 

 




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Troy's Triumph: Indy 1952

With 83 entries (23 different chassis and nine different engines), the month of May 1952 at Indy looked to be an interesting one! 

Drivers Duke Nalon, Chet Miller, Jack McGrath, Sam Hanks, Duane Carter, Troy Ruttman, Bill Vukovich, Jim Rathmann, Johnnie Parsons, and Tony Bettenhausen, among other veterans and eight rookies, would fill the field.


Troy’s Triumph
brings you 57 minutes of action at Indianapolis during May 1952. Practice, qualifying and the race are all covered. Bonus footage includes cars that missed the race, as well as a visit to the Frank Kurtis shop in California. 

Color.











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RACE AGAINST THE HEAT
- Indianapolis 1953

All the excitement from the month of May 1953 at Indianapolis - from practice, qualifying and the race!

B&W and color, approx. 59 min. with 8 min. bonus footage of cars that missed the race.























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BORN RACER

The story of the will to win in today’s IndyCar wars.

Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Chip Ganassi, Tony Kanaan play themselves in dramatic footage and candid interviews. 

Documentary 2018, 89 min.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Lightning Al (Indy 1970)

After missing the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 because of a broken ankle, Al Unser was more determined than ever to do well in the 1970 event.

Driving the Johnny Lightning Special, Al would dominate the race, leading 190 laps to score his first Indy victory. 


Lightning Al
documents all of the excitement during the month of May 1970 in this 57-minute DVD, including 8 minutes of bonus footage.


















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Lightning Strikes Twice (Indy 1971)

After dominating the 1970 500, Al Unser returns with an updated version of the Johnny Lightning Special and hopes of winning Indy again. 

His task would be much tougher this year with the introduction of the new McLaren cars driven by Peter Revson, Denis Hulme, and Mark Donohue. Revson would qualify on the pole with Donohue in the second spot.

Al, starting fifth, would battle Donohue, Revson, and his teammate, Joe Leonard, to win his second Indy 500 in a row.

Lightning Strikes Twice 1971 documents the events in May 1971 in this 74-minute DVD, including 18 minutes of bonus footage.












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GODSPEED: The Story of Page Jones

A feature-length documentary about Page Jones – former race car driver and son of the legendary Parnelli Jones – and his remarkable and continuing recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

The film shows the early Page, as he stormed the Midget circuits and looked to be another Parnelli in the making.

A terrible accident caused a near-fatal brain injury, from which few recover. This is the inspiring record of his – and his dedicated family’s – fight to recovery, health, and contribution to brain injury research.

The documentary shows in detail his wrenching efforts to overcome and live with the results of his injury, while advocating for access to long-term rehabilitation for others with similar injuries. Page is living proof that with support, quality lives are within reach.  Anyone who has met this warm, funny, and committed gentleman will know who won this particular race.

 1 hour run time.





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Classic Open Wheel Racing VIdeos

Titles include:


Thunder from the Fifties





















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1965-1967 USAC Indy Car Highlights

The rear engine revolution is here. See the conclusion of the rear-engine insurrection with an array of Lotuses, Hawks and Eagles.

See drivers like Mario Andretti, Dan Gurney, A. J. Foyt, Bobby and Al Unser.

Roadster advocates don't fret, yes, we have nice shots of Jim Hurtubise in the Tombstone Life/Gordon Van Liew roadster as well as Herb Porter's turbocharged Watson with Bobby Grim driving.

Other nice roadster and dirt-car footage included.







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1968 Rex Mays 150 Indy Car Race

See the STP turbines up close along with the prominent Indy Cars drivers of late 1960s: Foyt, the Unsers, Andretti, and Lloyd Ruby.

Wild racing action, including the Ronnie Duman accident.















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The Winning Combination - Indy 1966

Each May, the gates to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are opened and from the first day of practice, the search for the winning combination begins. Crews spend hours tweaking their cars to get the speed their driver will need to qualify for the 500.
For some teams, just qualifying for the race is their winning combination but for others, only the pole position will do.

The ultimate winning combination in 1965 went to the Lotus team of Colin Chapman and their driver, two-time Formula One Champion, Jim Clark. Clark’s winning combination was a rear-engine Lotus 38 powered by a Ford. This was the first rear-engine car to win the 500. His record average speed of 150.686 MPH would have sat on the pole just two years prior.

What would the winning combination of driver and machine be to win it all in 1966? Find out in "The Winning Combination -1966."

One hour, 26 min. of practice, qualifying, and race action plus bonus footage of the cars that missed the race.



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Open Wheel Legends:
A Conversation with Mario Andretti,
Dan Gurney & Parnelli Jones

This is a very special DVD, hard to find and worth the price. Produced by Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it’s one and a half hours of open-wheel guru Robin Miller talking informally and amusingly with three legendary drivers about their careers, triumphs and missteps.

On the DVD liner, Miller says: “If you were lucky enough, like me, to grow up in the ‘60s, then you got to see Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones and Mario Andretti at speed and at the pinnacle of their unparalleled careers. Along with A.J. Foyt, they are the Mount Rushmore of American motorsports, and their accomplishments will never be duplicated.…They thrived and survived in racing’s deadliest era and became household names that people still say with awe.”

1 hour 30 min.




 


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The Roadster's Last Triumph
– Indianapolis 1964


In 1961, Australian Grand Prix driver Sir Jack Brabham brought a light-weight rear engine F1 Cooper-Climax car to the Speedway. Although down on horsepower compared to the Offy- powered roadsters, Brabham used the superior corner handling of the Cooper to finish a respectable 9th place in the 500 and in the process, usher in the modern rear-engine era.
With the door open, several teams developed rear-engine cars, with the most notable being the Colin Chapman-designed Ford-powered Lotus 29s of 1963 driven by Dan Gurney and Jim Clark.

Clark would qualify 5th and in the race he moved up in the field to become the first rear-engine car to lead the 500, and even though he would finish 2nd to Parnelli Jones, the rear-engine car could no longer be ignored. The rear-engine car has returned with a vengeance in 1964 and the question had to be: Had the roadster gone the way of the dinosaur, or would this be its last triumph?

Color, approx. 60 min. plus cars that missed the race; 8 min. of B&W Bonus footage.




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Midget, Sprint & Champ Dirt Highlights, Vol. 2

"Midget, Sprint & Champ Dirt Highlights Vol. 2" spans the 1930s to the late 1970s from tracks that include Williams Grove, Hershey, Atlanta (Lakewood), Terre Haute, Indianapolis Raceway Park, Langhorne, DuQuoin, Winchester, Dayton, Cleveland, New Bremen, Syracuse and many more.

B&W and Color, Approx. 1hour and 45 minutes.


















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Midget, Sprint & Champ Dirt Car Highlights,
Vol 3

This DVD contains highlights from Midget, Sprint and Champ Dirt Car races from the late 1930s to the mid-60s. 

See such greats as Jimmy Bryan, Parnelli Jones, Jim Hurtubise, Tommy Hinnershitz, A.J. Foyt, Don Branson, and many more battle on some of America’s greatest dirt and paved ovals, including Langhorne, Williams Grove (real audio), Ascot, Indiana State Fairgrounds, Ho-Ho-Kus Speedway, Flemington and many more. 

Take a look back at a time when some of the best racing in American open-wheel racing took place, and enjoy a time when racing drivers ate dirt and oil and hung it all out for the sport they loved. 

 B&W and color, Runtime approx. 98 min.

 

 

 

 



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Challenge of the New Breed -
Indianapolis - 1963


Competition between the new rear-engine cars designed by Colin Chapman and driven for the Lotus team by Jim Clark and Dan Gurney, and the traditional roadsters.

Parnelli Jones stole the show in his Ol’ Calhoun roadster, chased by Clark, A.J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and other legends.


80 min plus 19 min bonus footage.

















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Dawn of the Rear Engine Era:
(Indianapolis) 1965


Jim Clark came to the Speedway in 1963 with Colin Chapman and the Lotus, looking to end the front-engine era of Indianapolis winners. He came close, finishing second to Parnelli Jones, who was driving a conventional front-engine roadster.

Clark returned in 1964 with Chapman and the Lotus to qualify on the pole. However, his suspension collapsed while leading the race, and A.J. Foyt went on to win in his roadster.

In 1965, Clark and Chapman came back with the brand new Lotus 38. This time, Clark hoped to drive the final nail in the front-engine coffin, ending its winning reign at Indianapolis. Clark qualified in the middle of the front row and dominated the race, becoming the first driver to win in a rear-engine Indy Car. No front-engine car has won the Indy 500 since. Clark’s win was definitely the dawn of an era.

Run time: 72 min. with 9 min. bonus time.






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Golden Victory: (Indianapolis) 1961

After an exciting 500-mile race in 1960 that saw a great battle between Rodger Ward and eventual winner Jim Rathmann, racing fans were hoping for a repeat performance in 1961. They were not disappointed.

“Golden Victory” takes you back to the month of May 1961 when Rodger Ward, Jim Rathmann, Troy Ruttman, Eddie Sachs, A.J. Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Len Sutton, Johnny Boyd and others competed for the greatest prize in motor racing, the Indianapolis 500.

You will see practice and qualifying with the fan favorite NOVI, brought back to the speedway by Andy Granatelli; Eddie Sachs capturing the pole at over 147 MPH; and the heartbreak of Chuck Arnold and Don Freeland who had the speed to make the field of 33, only to suffer mechanical problems during their qualifying runs. With the elite field of 33 decided, all that was left to do was to run the race itself.

Several drivers would lead throughout the race, but it was A.J. Foyt and Eddie Sachs who would put on a fantastic dual that could only end in “Golden Victory” for one of them on this, the 50th anniversary of the Indy 500.

Runtime: 90 min. with 7 min. bonus time,

V-8UC
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Eastern Speedway Classics

Rare vintage black & white and color footage plus historic photos highlight this collector's video. Racing action dating from the 30s to the 80s - Sprint Cars, Midgets, Champ Cars, Hudsons, & Late Models. The speedways included are: Trenton, Lancaster, Freeport, Dover, Union, New Market, Nutley Velodrome, NY Coliseum, Wilmington, Pitman, Commack, Island Garden, Teaneck, Kingsbridge Armory, Atlantic City Conv. Hall, Nassau Coliseum, Ruppert Stadium, Polo Grounds, Bayonne Stadium, Old Bridge, Lehighton, Goshen, Hughsville, Nazareth National, Langhorne, Richie, Gratz, Cortland, York Fairground, Stroudsburg, Sidney, Cross Bay, Roosevelt, Coney Island Bowl, Sanatoga, Yellow Jacket, Dorney Park, Allentown, Agricultural Hall, Harmony, Hinchliffe, Springfield, Plainville, Danbury, Carlisle, Lebanon, Nazareth, Reading, Bird In Hand, Hilltop, Altoona, Laurel, Atlantic City, Sheepshead Bay, Woodbridge, Hohokus, Mineola, Morristown, Jersey City, Lodi, Municipal Stadium, Bone Stadium, Islip, Cedarhurst, Olympic Park, Hatfield Rockingham, NH, Brockton, Vista, Castle Hill, Pine Brook.

105 minutes, color and black & white

V-16
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URC–The First 50 Years

URC–the First 50 Years illustrates the evolution of the United Racing Club, the oldest active Sprint Car club in the nation. Great film footage & rare photos highlight the growth of this unique club. Tracks featured include Stroudsburg, Hatfield, Nazareth, Williams Grove, Harrington, Richmond, Trenton, Bedford, Bloomsburg, Owego, York, Big Diamond, Selinsgrove, Bridgeport, Penn National, Delaware International, Potomac, & Rolling Wheels. There are also many stops at the popular Flemington & Grandview Speedways, and finally a visit to Knoxville Raceway for the URC-ESS invitational race. Bert Brooks, Earl Halaquist, Dave Kelly, Glenn Fitzcharles, Kramer Williamson, and many more URC greats are on this historic replay. Exciting Sprint Car racing plus many wild flips will make you want this classic video for your collection!

65 minutes, color and black & white




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Eastern Midget Classics

This video looks at four of the greatest midget speedways in the East - Yellow Jacket Speedway, Danbury Fairground, Hinchliffe Stadium, & Springfield, Massachusetts. Rare black & white footage and photos cover the 1940-1947 "Golden Era." Features one-legged driver Bill Schindler, legendary Dutch Schaefer, all-time champ Len Duncan and more. Includes comments from race promoter Ed Otto and mechanic Jimmy Shaw. Old-time heroes Pappy Hough, Nick Fonoro, Lou Volk, Len Duncan, and Jiggs Peters share their memories, plus a look at some restored antique race cars.

65 minutes, black & white


V-7UC
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Open Cockpit Classics

This video highlights sprint & champ car racing during the 50s and 60s at 3 of the most famous Eastern speedways, Langhorne, Reading, & Williams Grove. Vintage footage captures such stars as A.J. Foyt, Parnelli Jones, and Jim Hurtubise in their early years of racing. Witness Tommy Hinnershitz's rule at Reading, plus the legends of Langhorne - Jimmy Bryan and Mike Nazaruk.

60 minutes, color



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The Flying Dutchman

Covers the racing career of a true legend, Tommy Hinnershitz. Over a span of four decades Tommy captured 100 victories and 7 Eastern Sprint Car Championships - all without the protection of a roll cage.

Filmed in 3 separate interviews over the past 15 years, highlighted with historic photos & film footage.

60 minutes, color and black & white