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Vintage URA Midget Racing Program FRESNO AIRPORT SPEEDWAY Bill Vukovich Kearney

Vintage URA Midget Racing Program FRESNO AIRPORT SPEEDWAY Bill Vukovich Kearney

$ 52.8

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Grade: Very Good
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Condition: Very good condition. Approximately 11" x 9" ; stapled printed wrappers. 18pp.
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Year: 1947
  • Sport: Racing
  • Vintage: Yes

    Description

    An original site program for a URA midget race run over the Fresno Airport Speedway (aka the Kearney Bowl), then a 1/4 mile paved oval.
    The race featured future Indy greats Bill Vukovich and Roger Ward early in their careers and the previous owner has scored the entire program (it seems to have been won by Bill Zaring).
    A track first opened at the airport in 1936 as a 1/5 mile dirt oval, was closed during the war and reopened for this 1947 season as a massively remodeled, 1/4 mile pavement ring with a seating capacity of 18,000.
    *see: BROWN, Allen E. ; THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S SPEEDWAYS (4th ed. ; 2017, pp.142)
    An attractively illustrated and well preserved program from the postwar boom in California midget racing.
    FREE USPS First Class Mail shipment to The U.S.A. dispatched same business day as payment in bulletproof, frustration-free packaging. Thanks for looking and please don't hesitate with questions.