Ford-based Track Roadster
date: label: date made
content: 1948
name: label: maker
content: Anderson, Donald
notes: label: Description
content: Hot rods first appeared in southern California in the late 1930s and became popular in many other places after World War II. Oval track racing combined speed and spectator enjoyment. Dick Fraizer, Floyd Johnson, and Hack Winniger built this competition track roadster in Muncie, Indiana. It has a 1927 Ford Model T body, a 1928 Chevrolet chassis, and a Ford V-8 engine. Fraizer set a one-lap speed record of 84.23 miles per hour with this car at the Winchester Speedway in Indiana. It also ran at Soldiers Field in Chicago with Andy Granatelli’s Hurricane Racing Association and on tracks as far east as Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Engineering
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Sports & Leisure
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content: Automobiles
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Donald and Betty Anderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0028.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0028
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0028.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: automobile, racing
label: Object Name
content: race car
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 ft x 6 ft x 12 ft; 1.2954 m x 1.8288 m x 3.6576 m