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2000

Broadcast live from the Jonathan Byrd/McCormack Motorsports garage in Gasoline Alley (drivers Robby Unser & Ronnie Johncox)

Monday 5-22-2000
Jim Hurtubise’s makeshift “bar and lounge” set up in the old Gasoline Alley garage area circa 1974–1975, the Jim Hurtubise “beer engine” in 1972 (Paul in Racine), forty years since Johnny Rutherford and Jim McElreath first came to the Speedway in 1960, the 1960 scaffolding collapse (connection to Johnny Rutherford and his future wife Betty), Indy 500 and home Indiana Pacers basketball game at the same time, yellow flags on the grandstands (“P” stands for “Paddock”), any year with no rookies (no), Stark and Wetzel Rookie of the Year award and the year’s supply of meat from the meat market, Gene Force, in-show guest Buzz Caulkins, Tom Carnegie milk “show us your udders” commercial.

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Tuesday 5-23-2000
Jim Clark testing the Lotus 56 Turbine (the “wedge” Turbine) at Indianapolis just prior to his death, 1961 race A.J. Foyt/Eddies Sachs battle, in-show guest Andy Hillenberg, Carl Fisher’s grave at Crown Hill Cemetery, the IMS infield used as airstrip, possible fatal plane crashes at IMS during World War I.

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Wednesday 5-24-2000
Mel Gibson starring in an Indy 500 movie? Brothers Jim and Dick Rathmann swapping names, was Lou Moore the only car owner to win the “500” three straight years, Tony Bettenhausen car identification question, a caller asks about a driver from the 1930s (Donald’s never heard of him), Parnelli Jones dropping out with the Turbine in 1967, where was A.J. Foyt at that moment and Dan Gurney’s performance that day, Al Putnam, Lou Palmer, follow up on Andy Hillenberg.

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Thursday 5-25-2000
Murrell Belanger with the Blue Crown team? Correction – Belanger was from Crown Point Indiana, follow up on the 1967 final lap crash, Roger McCluskey, question about how much money the pit crew members would get per tire changed, Danny Kladis, does Andy Granatelli still own any of the original Novi cars?, most experienced field, Jochen Rindt, Ronnie Buckman, Mario Andretti’s 1969 Brawner Hawk “illegal” radiator placement on race day.

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Friday 5-26-2000
Unusual cars in 1963 and 1964 (the Mickey Thompson cars), Dick Simon being questioned by FBI agents for possibly being D.B. Cooper, how USAC came to be after the AAA Contest Board dissolved in 1955, Bruce Keene riding mechanic from 1911, car numbers of the first four qualifiers in the 2000 race…1 9 11…plus 32 in fourth, did Jim Clark approach Dave MacDonald to get out of the car in 1964? Possibility of three first time winners in a row, Joe Baker Engineering, ZOE on Mario Andretti’s helmet, story about Patrick Racing intentionally causing turbulence by mounting the exhaust pipes on the side, Floyd Davis.

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2001

Co-hosted by Dave “The King” Wilson from the WIBC downtown studios

Friday 5-25-2001
Lloyd Ruby’s charity group, what’s up with Bobby Unser/Johnny Unser/Robby Unser, Davy Jones, Tommy Milton, The Little 500 sprint car race, Jim Hurtubise and the Mallard over the years and how fast he was running, what starting position has won the most times (pole position), celebrities that Donald Davidson has met, Pole Day in 1971 (Peter Revson and Mark Donohue battle for the pole position), Johnny White, Johnnie Tolan, the “All-Night Race Party” will feature replays of the radio broadcasts from the 1961 race and the 1990 race.

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