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Go Beyond the Speed Limit!
Selected Chapters from MALLOY
Emmett’s Son, Tom
Racing a hungry pack and staying a half-car length ahead by a whisker, he squeezed the gas pedal while apexing Turn 1. Accelerating away from the exit, the driver sped through the “short chute” to Turn 2. But wait a second, what was that on the road surface ahead?!
A Passion
for Racecar Driving
In no time there was no time. Sunday arrived as though by postal express and as the cars lined-up on the track for the “one minute whistle” from the paddock marshal… “next thing, the whole bunch of ‘em was on me!”
The Daytona 24-Hour & Bonneville
Yet sure enough, the rain came. “I saw the car up ahead slam the wall,” Tom recounts. A massive outfall of car parts and fluids gushed down the 31-degree steep track banking. “There was nowhere to go,” Malloy exclaims.
Search for the Ghost Car
Tom was in disbelief. This was the very 270 Offy engine that powered the Malloy Special in the capable hands of driver Jimmy Reece to 4th overall in the ’54 AAA Champ Car National Championship. But where was the racecar?
Collecting the
Legendary Cars
“Penske is gonna be pissed,” exclaimed a shocked Bobby Unser when he learned that “some guy just bought the #003 that we won Indy ’81 in! Somebody out-ran all bidders for our 1981 Penske PC-9B and it was a high dollar car!”
Auto Racing History: Alive!
We think of motorsports history as in the past. But the races, the drivers, the mechanics, the team owners, the cars, the duels and – yes – the accidents, live on in the memories of the participants and the spectators that experienced them.
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- Left: Ready to race, in cockpit of Lola T70 Mk IIIB
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- Emmett J. Malloy, circa 1947, race track entrepreneur
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- Indianapolis 500, circa 1954, Malloy Special, in the hunt
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- Tom Malloy in his 1934 Miller Burd Piston Ring Special, at speed
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- Left: 1967 GT40 Mk IV – Right: Ed Pink Racing Engines, performance in progress
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- The Malloy “Shop,” decades of racecars, all in readiness for the green flag
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