Don Edmunds Race Cars. Don edmunds born 23 sep 1930 santa ana california. Don edmunds suspects to this day that other usac car owners had lobbied linne to not race the ground breaking machine in usac for fear that it would make their machines obsolete.
Died 12 aug 2020 oregon. His ascension was quick from jalopies to midgets to changing the right front tire for billy garrett in the 1956 indianapolis 500 to joining the starting field a year later. Indy car builder eddie kuzma hired edmunds to fix the dent in jimmy bryan s car after the driver kicked the car.
He had his first start at indianapolis motor speedway in 1957.
Only retired from his midget chassis building in his 80 s. Don has a long history in racing from the late 1940 s through 2002. About the registry. Edmunds sprint car edmunds offy midget nice drawing edmunds super modified chassis tag don s autograph i never had the chance to meet don edmunds but his workmanship is outstanding.
