VEHICLE TYPE: Three Quarter (TQ) Midget
YEAR BUILT: 1968
BUILT BY: Wes Kroeze and Don Werhan
SUSPENSION: Spring front and cross bar rear
ENGINE: Crosley inline 4 cylinder with single overhead camshaft. Bored .100 oversize with a ¼” stroker crankshaft displacing 50 CI. (Don’t believe the 55 CI on the hood, we were playing mind games with the competition!) A Weber DCOE 40 carb feeding methanol fuel to the engine. Engine built by Bob and Chuck Fawcett.
HISTORY: The car debuted late in the 1968 NMRA season with Jim Fawcett at the wheel for a couple of shakedown races. In 1969 #95 dominated the NMRA season easily winning the championship with Fawcett at the wheel even though the team took a two week sabbatical to Indiana where they amassed enough points with the UMRA TQs to finish 8th in their annual points race. In 1970 Bob McCaw purchased the car and campaigned it until 1979 when he won the championship with it. The car then passed to Terry Farrar in 1980, and once again the car won the championship in 1982, by this time powered by Honda then Kawasaki motorcycle engines. After 1982, the car passed through the hands of Jerry Meyers, Jeff Minnebraker and finally Dean Buckley. In 1989 Wes Kroeze tracked down the car in Buckley’s storage shed where it rested in pieces. Buckley gave the car in “basket case” condition” to Kroeze, and when Kroeze passed away in 1996 his son Steve inherited the car , still in the condition his dad found it. Steve began the restoration in 2007, and it was completed in 2014 with some help and advice from Chuck Fawcett, the last remaining member of the original #95 race team.
Owner: Kroeze Family
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