auto racing cards

[Exhibitman]

The producers seem to follow a pattern each year, so I guess they are sets.

[D. Bergin]

Sorry, got a chuckle when I stumbled across this Lewis Hamilton card on Ebay.


You think PSA would have done this to Verstappen?





https://www.ebay.com/itm/12610172703...&segname=11021

[gonefishin]

I see there are a few NASCAR fans on this thread also. Here are a few of my cards, including King Petty and the Intimidator Earnhardt (and son Jr.)

[Peter_Spaeth]

Speaking of Janet...

[gonefishin]

Here's my Sportscaster.

I'm waiting for the movie to get finished, "Speed Girl" and starring Hilary Swank as Janet. I expect it to be a great movie when finished. Hilary Swank is a great actress and actually looks a lot like Janet.

I thought I would throw in a picture of a pretty cool autographed First Day cover signed by her, Rutherford, Foyt, King Richard and the great Bobby Unser.

[Bored5000]

Nice cards, gonefishing. Considering her impact, Guthrie's stuff remain very cheap. I have read the Speed Girl book on which the movie is going to be based. Is the movie still in the works? There seemed to be a fair amount of publicity about it a year or two ago, but I have not heard anything since. Last time I looked, I was unable to find any new information about the status of the movie.

As a side note, Richard Petty was one of Wendell Scott's bigger supporters, but was not very supportive at all of Guthrie trying to break into the sport.

[Exhibitman]

Any production would be shut down right now due to the strikes.

Hilary Swank was so great in Million Dollar Baby. Totally an aside, but the writer of the story that it was based on, F.X. Toole, was a longtime cutman and manager who started writing very late in life and got only a few pieces done before he died. If you want a real treat, pick up Rope Burns, the book of stories that has MDB. His writing is just beautiful.

[Exhibitman]

Speaking of trailblazers, I found this 1973 postcard of Wendell Scott in the lot:




Quite the backstory of this HOFer, per Wikipedia:

"Scott began his racing career in local circuits in the late 1940s and obtained his NASCAR license in 1953, making him the first African-American ever to compete in NASCAR. He debuted in the Grand National Series(NASCAR highest level)on March 4, 1961 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. On December 1, 1963, he won a Grand National Series race at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first black driver and team owner to win at NASCAR's premier level. Scott's career was repeatedly affected by racial prejudice including being poisoned (Dover) and death threats (Spartanburg, Darlington, Talladega, Jacksonville, and Daytona). Despite these challenges he continued to compete and was posthumously inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame & NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015."

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Speaking of trailblazers, I found this 1973 postcard of Wendell Scott in the lot:




Quite the backstory of this HOFer, per Wikipedia:

"Scott began his racing career in local circuits in the late 1940s and obtained his NASCAR license in 1953, making him the first African-American ever to compete in NASCAR. He debuted in the Grand National Series(NASCAR highest level)on March 4, 1961 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. On December 1, 1963, he won a Grand National Series race at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first black driver and team owner to win at NASCAR's premier level. Scott's career was repeatedly affected by racial prejudice including being poisoned (Dover) and death threats (Spartanburg, Darlington, Talladega, Jacksonville, and Daytona). Despite these challenges he continued to compete and was posthumously inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame & NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015."

Once in a while, an autographed Wendell postcard or traditional card from the late 1980s show up at auction on eBay. There are not a lot of autographed Wendell Scott cards around, since he died in 1990. They usually go for around $100-200.

The "Hard Driving" Wendell Scott biography by Brian Donovan is a pretty good read about what Scott had to endure.

For those unaware, the 1977 "Greased Lightning" movie with Richard Pryor is based on Wendell Scott, although not really a strict adaptation of his life story.