1966 USAC Yearbook

If you've looked around our blog you may have seen some of the really neat old Indycar stuff that belonged to our pappy that we have posted occasionally. 

 

Since there is so much of it,

and it's all really cool,

we thought we would post something each week

for Throwback Thursday.

Since this week marked the 35th anniversary of Mario Andretti winning the World Championship in 1978,

we thought we would throw it back to 1965 when he won his first Indycar Championship at the age of 25.

1971 Pocono Schaeffer 500 Driver Photos

From the 1971 Schaeffer 500 Program.

 

 

 

Drivers Lee Roy Yarbrough, Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, Art Pollard, Roger McCluskey, and Lloyd Ruby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Mario fan

Are you too hot at the race track?

 

Are you a Mario fan? 

Then let Mario Andretti help cool you off with your very own 'Mario fan'.

 

 

 

(We even got ours signed by Mario himself at Indy.)

Car and drivers photos from 1969 and 1970

Our pappy was really into open wheel racing and he and mammy used to go to lots of tracks around where we live like Pocono, Langhorne, Trenton and Nazareth, so he especially liked the 'local' drivers who lived nearby. 

His all time favorite was Mario Andretti. 

 

We found these old pictures in a file of our pappy's and thought they were pretty cool.

 



Mario Andretti (Indy 500 Winner 1969)
 



Al Unser Sr. (Indy 500 winner 1970,71,78)



Dan Gurney

Mark Donohue (Indy 500 winner 1972)



Bobby Unser (Indy 500 Winner 1968, 75, 81)