HARF NEWS - Hoosier Auto Racing Fans (HARF)

Ed Adair 1997
Chuck Amati 2001
Mario Andretti 1970
Earl Baltes 1976
Rollie Beale 1983
Gary Bettenhausen 1978
Tony Bettenhausen* 1956
Tom Bigelow 1980
Thomas W. Binford* 1959
Larry Bisceglia* 1966
Al Bloemker* 1961
Bob Bowes, Jr.* 1961
Don Branson* 1966
Clint Brawner* 1970
Jimmy Bryan* 1986
Steve Butler 1993
Clarence Cagle* 1963
Tom Carnegie 1990
Pancho Carter 1982
Duane Carter* 1955
Hollis “Bill” Cheesman* 1958
Tom Cherry* 1960
Sid Collins* 1967
Don Cummins* 1952
Don Dakin* 1976
Bob Daniels 1991
Dave Darland 2004
Donald Davidson 2003
Frank Dicke* 1958
Larry Dickson 1977
G.H. “Snappy” Ford 1951
Galen Fox 1997
Stan Fox* 2006
A.J. Foyt 1964
Frank Funk* 1956
Dick Gaines* 1975
Tony George 1996
Jim & Diana Gilmore* 1974
Jeff Gordon 1994
Andy Grantelli 1968
Rufus Gray* 1982
Bobby Grim* 1957
Dan Gurney 1974
Sam Hanks* 1987
Gene Hartley* 1959
Jack Hewitt 1998
CALENDAR
Nov. 17th • Monte Carlo Night
Jan. 26st • Hoosier Racers Swap Meet
Jan. 27th • 56th Annual HARF Awards Banquet
Feb. 17th • Vogler Scholarship Daytona 500 Party
HARF Hall of Fame (*deceased)
Bob Higman 1999
Tommy Hinershitz* 1969
Roger Holdeman* 1975
Ted Horn* 1971
Anton Tony Hulman* 1954
Jim Hurtubise* 1965
John Hyland* 1965
Kenny Irwin Jr.* 2000
Bob Jenkins 2005
Parnelli Jones 1992
Mel Kenyon 1969
Bob Kinser 1980
Steve Kinser 1981
Karl Kinser 1988
Randy Kinser 1995
Jud Larson* 1967
Bob Laycock Sr.* 1990
Ralph Ligouri 1989
Bill Lipkey* 1977
Bobby Marshman* 1964
Bob Martindale* 1952
Bill Marvel 2001
Rex Mays* 1972
See the latest news on our website:
www.HARFonline.org
HARF HALL OF FAME
NOMINATION FORM
MUST BE POSTMARKED BY NOV. 19th, 2007
or bring with you to Monte Carlo Night!
Roger McCluskey* 1973
Jimmy&James* McElreath 1978
Rick Mears 1998
Wally Meskowski* 1979
Louis Meyer* 1968
Randall “Rags” Mitchell* 1951
Mike Mosley* 1984
Ray Nichels 1957
Glen Niebel* 2000
Pat O’Connor* 1953
Jan Opperman* 1986
Ralph Potter 2002
D.E. “Gene” Powlen* 1960
Joe Quinn* 1962
Joie Ray 1995
Larry Rice 1985
Lloyd Ruby 1973
Johnny Rutherford 1983
Ken Schrader 1989
Sammy Sessions* 1979
Wilbur Shaw* 1954
Bill Simpson 2003
Don Smith 1963
Danny Smith 1996
Tom Sneva 1984
Bob Sowle 2005
Robbie Stanley* 1994
Steve Stapp 2006
Tony Stewart 2002
Bob Sweikert* 1955
Johnny Thomson* 1988
Bobby Unser 1971
Al Unser Sr. 1985
Rich Vogler* 1981
Lee Wallard* 1993
Rodger Ward* 1962
Leroy Warriner* 1999
A.J. Watson 1972
Butch Wilkerson 2004
Doug Wolfgang 1992
Ennis “Diz” Wilson* 1991
Roger Wolcott* 1953
Thanks to our HARF Hundreds
Sponsors:
•The Hastings Law Firm •Gearheads Auto Racing Store
•Duane & Sonja Alexander •Jockish FLOWERS
•Coldwell Banker - South Central Realty •Steve & Rosemary Stapp
•Stepping Stone Stables •Mike Heimel Auction Services
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Vicki Black
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2137 Main Street
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Speedway, IN
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Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Constitution Preamble
In order to promote better understanding towards the sport of auto
racing, In order to promote better sportsmanship within the ranks of auto
racing, In order to do everything possible to improve all of auto racing.
We, the Hoosier Auto Racing Fans have banded together to actively
support all forms of competitive auto racing regardless of
sanction or affiliation.
HARF
HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS
NEWS
Copyright HARF 2004 Fall 2007 www.HARFonline.org
President’s Corner
Well, all the race track finales are completed and now it’s
party time! Some tracks have banquets to celebrate their
champions, others have bonfires and track parties, but
however they celebrate, it’s to show their champions their
appreciation on a great year of on-the-track battles and
struggles to have a car prepared week after week. We
applaud all of you out there who fight to keep the sheet
metal straight, nerf bars unbent and engines tuned and
showing up at our local tracks every weekend to entertain
us. Unfortunately, we only get to honor those of you who
have had the especially great year and won your track
championships. Our celebration of Champions this year will
be on January 27, 2008 (the day after the Hoosier Racers
Swap Meet) and we hope you can all join us this year. The
past few years has been a sell-out with great participation
from the Champions and award winners, our sponsors, our
sanctioning body representatives and most of all, our club
members: “The Race Fans”! As all of you who celebrate
with us year after year know, it’s a fun day of bench racing
with drivers and fans, seeing our “Champions and Heroes”
receive their HARF awards, and having a chance to leave
with great door prizes or winning a piece of racing history
in our Silent Auction room! We are planning for this to be
the most fun racing weekend you’ve had, without going
to the racetrack, with the Hoosier Racers Swap Meet on
Saturday and the “56th” Annual Awards Banquet on Sunday.
If you’re from out of town, we have made arrangements for
you to enjoy another little piece of history and stay at the
Brickyard Resort for a race weekend discount. Just mention
the HARF weekend package for a special rate and enjoy
spending the night in the shadow of the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway. The motel also has a great restaurant and bar
for your enjoyment and one of the best “giant” tenderloins in
town. Just another treat to make your weekend memorable.
We owe so much to our members this year, from your
help with the Tracy Hines recovery fund auction, to the
great sponsors who gave us money to support our HARF
Hundreds, we appreciate all of you so much!
And to update you, Tracy is up and walking and doing
great (but chomping at the bit to get back in the race car as
soon as he can bend his leg a little bit more) and the HARF
Hundreds ($1000) went to Bill Rose, who competed at all
3 tracks and did great (& even though our Sunday night
feature at Kokomo got rained out, he had won his heat race
and had enough points to wrap up the win). A quick thanks
to all of you who stopped by our booth to say “hi” to Vicki and
me or for bringing friends by to join them up, we only grow
with your help and we’ve found that this HARF Hundreds
weekend is a great promotion to remind some of you to renew
or to join, so Thanks so much.
Now to our event only a couple of weeks away and that is
Monte Carlo night! If you haven’t been, you’ve missed a
great night of fun. From the time the doors open and the
race movies start to the conclusion of the winners auction
we have a ball. It’s a great opportunity for you to get more
when you re-new your membership and a great night of
fun and competition with fellow race fans and drivers. All
professionally done with Vegas style tables and dealers, but
without the Vegas style pressure, no one gets mad if you
take the ace they needed for 21 or if you can’t add 2 dice
together, our friends from Elite Casino Productions take
the time and explain things (before they take your money),
and then after the gaming is over, take your winners to our
racing auction and buy your self something pretty. We have
great prizes to buy with the credits you’ve earned and fun
Monte Carlo
Night
November 17th, 2007
Brickyard Crossing Golf Resort & Inn
4400 W. 16th St.
Social Hour & Movie Party 6pm - 7pm
Vegas style gaming 7pm - 9pm
Then use your winning credits
at the auction, immediately
following the gaming to buy great
racing memorabilia & gifts!
Admission:
HARF Members $10 - includes 1000 gaming credits
Non-Members $25 - includes 1 yr. membership
& 2500 gaming credits
Members: Bring a non-member & receive an extra
500 credits & if you re-new your membership
You will receive an additional 1500 credits.
Drivers always admitted free & we start you off
with 500 credits. Auction donations are
gladly accepted.
5 6 T H A N N U A L
A W A R D S B A N Q U E T
Sunday, January 21, 2008
at Celebrations at Noon!
220 Country Club Rd., Indianapolis
Tickets: $20 or sponsor an award for $80!
Contact Vicki for early reservations,
(317) 487-8096 or mail to:
2137 Main St. Speedway, IN 46224
Don’t wait, last year was a sell out!

giveaways throughout the evening. So plan to attend, you’ll
have a great time. I got a great Miranda Throckmorton and
Arin McIntosh t-shirt there last year and they were both there
to autograph them for me.
A couple of other things in this writing to bring to your
attention are our ads. We run these ads to promote our
friends and sponsors and to help you race fans make your
Christmas lists. I think we all know someone who would love
the new Dick Wallen book Hard Driving Men images of
speed 1895-1960 or Dave Argabrights latest great writing
about Doug Wolf Gang (soon to be released is his and Pat
Sullivans’ book about Joie Ray). Dick has sent us a copy of
Hard Driving Men images of speed 1895-1960 and it will
be in the Silent Auction room at the banquet (even though I
really wanna keep it for myself) but why wait, order yours for
a great gift (or be selfish and keep it for yourself), and Dave
always sends us a couple of his great works for the banquet
(usually signed by both himself and the subject). Also, great
new books are available from Buzz Rose. But if books
aren’t for you, don’t forget to do some Christmas shopping
at my 2 favorite stores... Gearheads (outside the front gate
of ORP) or Everything Racing (at the corner of High School
Rd. and Crawfordsville Rd.). Everyone needs racing stuff for
Christmas! And if they already have everything they need,
re-new their subscription to SpeedSport News, still the best
mail you’ll ever get....and every week!
One last note before I go and probably the most important
item in this newsletter and that is the HARF “Hall of Fame”
nomination form on page 4. This is your opportunity to
honor someone in racing who richly deserves a place in our
Hall of Fame. We take all the nominees and place them on
a ballot for our entire membership to vote on, then we place
the top “2” vote recipients into our Hall of Fame during our
Banquet,January 27, 2008. It’s an award and honor that
means so much to the recipient who is a trend setter or
history maker in auto racing. So look thru the names who
are already in our Hall and let us know who we have left out.
We hope to make January 27th, 2008 a special day in their
racing lives and give them the honor they greatly deserve.
So, in closing, I hope you all had a great year of racing
and hope you can join us at either the Monte Carlo,
November 17th, or the Hoosier Racers Swap Meet (www.
shoestringracing.com), January 26 th , 2008, or our 56th
Annual Awards Banquet January 27 th , 2008.
Don’t stay all cooped up this winter, come out and join us
at one of or all of our fun events. It’ll make the winter go by
faster.
See you soon,
BOB
p.s. Our Banquet on January 27 th 2008 & the Vogler
Scholarship Daytona 500 Party on Feb. 17 th, 2008 will be 2
of “Celebrations” last events ever. Come and help us Thank
Harold & Eric Cottongim and their entire staff for their years
of serving us the best food and hospitality we could have
asked for. We’ll miss being their guests.
In Loving Memory of
Wally Parks-NHRA Founder
Calvin McRae (World Rally Champ)
Alex Pruett (USAC & UMARA Racer)
Charlie Sentman (Racer & Auctioneer)
Derek Laycock (Son of our V.P. Danny [D.O.] )
Bobby East
wins the P.R.A.
show at O’Reilly
Raceway Park,
and receives his
beautiful 2007
HARF t-shirt & a
years membership.
(Photo by
Dave Garsert)
To order go to www.racingclassics.com or call 1-623-566-5578
Rose Racing Publication latest great book. “America’s Oldest Sprint Car
Organization”, the URC (United Racing Club). Check it out at
www.roseracingpublications.com
Hoosier Racers
Swap Meet
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
8am - 4pm
Now all in one massive 67,000 Sq. Ft. Building
The Champions Pavilion
@ the Indiana State Fairgrounds!
Buy-Sell-Trade Race Parts or Entire Cars!
Fun for the serious racer or racing collector!
3 BIG SPECIAL EVENTS!
•Racing
with D.O. The “Storytellers” Round Table
•The
“Promoters” Round Table
•Modified
Row
General Admission is only $8.00!
For more information go to
www.shoestringracing.com
Our 2007 outing at Winchester in July. Roger Hughes, HARF V.P., awards
Shane Butler winner of the “King of the Wings” Hoss vs. Arss sprint
feature. Note: Roger was not one of the beauty queens.
(photo by Jimmy Dawson)
Dan Moriarty, me, Bill Rose (with his $1000 & big fake check) &
Chris Jockish (our favorite florist). Dan & Chris were two of our great
sponsors for the HARF Hundreds. Thanks to Kevin Plummer of
www.pandgphotos.com.
JOIN TODAY!
Hoosier Auto Racing Fans!
To become a HARF member just fill out the form below and mail with your
dues to HARF 2137 Main St. Speedway, IN 46224.
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Donations?
Do you have something in the garage or the storage shed that a race
fan would love to have? From your leftover t-shirts with your old drivers
on ‘em, to sheet metal, autographed drivers gloves, trophies or artwork,
anything racing related, we would love to have for our events. One race
fans trash is anothers treasure! So, contact us today. We can pick-up.
317-487-8096 or harfinfo@comcast.net
Special “Thanks” to Mike Heimel of Heimel Auctions for the donation of a
huge framed black & white photo of Jeff Gordon in a sprint car. Come &
bid on it at the Banquets Silent Auction room.
CRA Street Stock feature winner Jeff Perry at Winchester in July, hip deep
in awards. Our friends from DARF along with VP Roger Hughes giving him
free t-shirts. (photo by Jimmy Dawson)
It’s nice when a HARF member wins a big race...like the Brickyard 400.
Congrats to Tony Stewart & keep chasing the championship.
(photo by Jimmy Dawson)