-----Original Message-----
From: bpratt [mailto:bpratt@paralynx.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:44 PM
To: RacingHistory@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [RH] URA midget sanctioning body
United Racing Association. Southern California. After the Second World War. 1945 to 1964. Midgets. From 1945 to 48 there were two circuits: blue for Offy powered cars; red for Fords and other engines. (Hope that's right.) During the height of the midgets after the war you could race seven days a week.
Check out Distant Thunder (Dick Wallen, www.racingclassics.com (http://www.racingclassics.com)) for an intense look at the midgets of that era. (Just got a new flyer from them as their book on Roaring Roadsters has come out. Wait a sec...Don Radbruch's got two books by that name!?!)
A cheaper look at midgets can be found in The Official Championship Midget Auto Racing Record Book 1933-1999 by Ed Watson. Witness Publications, Box 34 Church St., Marshall IN, 47859, phone 765-597-2487.
Brian Pratt
Burnaby, BC, Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Mel Anthony [mailto:MethanolMel@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:02 AM
To: history
Subject: [RH] re-URA
The Muir Brothers from California came to Seattle with their two V 8 60 midgets in 1946. Both brothers, Stan and Johnny, had raced in the UNited Racing Assocation, of Southern California. In 1945, the newly formed assocation was a consolidation of rival forces of the former United Midget Assocation, and the West coast branch of A.A.A. The groups were then divided into Red and Blue divisions. The Red was V 8 60 and outboards, or any engine except the Offy. The Blue was strictly all Offy. The Red could come run with the Blue, but few did, as the Offy was superior. Rodger Ward was an exception when he won the main at Gilmore in a V 8 60, against a field of Offys.
Mel Anthony