VINTAGE HORSEPOWER.Byline: - Daily News ROSAMOND - Nearly 100 racers from Canada to Florida - all age 40 and beyond - are driving their vintage open-wheel cars this weekend at the 12th annual Walt James Vintage Race Car Gathering. The midgets, sprint cars and roadsters are driving the 3/8-mile oval track  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. at Willow Springs Willow Springs may refer to:
James, now 81 and living in Acton, is a member of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. Racing will continue from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today. Pit passes are $15. Children ages 8 and under are admitted free. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Sprint Car Racing Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Hall of Famer Walt James greets fans Saturday who've come to watch the 12th annual Walt James Vintage Race Car Gathering taking place this weekend at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park in Rosamond. (2 -- 3 -- color) Left, Driver Tony Simon drives with a hook on Verb 1. hook on - adopt; "take up new ideas" fasten on, seize on, take up, latch on sweep up, embrace, espouse, adopt - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish his right arm after losing his hand in a racing crash; he's driving a 1948 Kurtis Offenhouser. Right, Race car driver Shelby York York, former name of Toronto, Canada York, Ont.: see Toronto, Ont., Canada. York, city, England York, city (1991 pop. 123,126) and district, North Yorkshire, N England, at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers. watches as son Steven checks the engine on his 1947 Kurtis Offy. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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