1920s Brown-Lipe 3-speed transmision: 16.125" bolt circle with 16 holes - or similar

 

Any of photos of the Frank Lockhart 183 dirt-track car which he raced in 1925 in California and around Indy in May 1926.

Any unpublished information about Frank Lockhart.
 

Please email milleroffy@comcast.net.  Fair value and finders fee paid.
 
 
 
 
 

 

FOR SALE

Cars & Boats

• Much as one wishes it could be otherwise, because of the small number of Millers built, it is rare for a Miller race car or significant race part to become publically available. There are a few more cars for sale, in addition to the ones listed. If interested, please email.

• From Paul Giannuzzi - click on images for larger photo
• Boyle Miller special: 270 Miller-powered. Raced at Indy four times once as an eight cylinder car and three times as a four cylinder ‘junk formula’ car driven by Cummings. The car was owned later by Louis Meyer and then sold on to Firestone as a test car for their products.



 
• "Miller Special" sprint car: Milt Fankhauser’s personal sprint car with it’s 155 marine large bore engine still in it. Very original and un-restored - as it was originally and untouched (A cam bucket has ‘grabbed’ and would strongly recommend the engine is examined before attempting to run it as this may cause irreparable damage ).




Also a pre-war offy 270 tall block engine complete (AAA stamped).

• Contact Paul at giannuzzi@sky.com

 
• From the Lance Baumberger collection
• PISTONS, (NOS) domed Offy Midget 2.85" 5 ea. $100./all
• FUEL PUMP, M&D Offy Midget     1 ea.   $70
• EXHAUST FLANGE KIT, 220 & 270    1 ea.   $60
• HEAD GASKET, Miller-Schofield Model-A, OHV (NOS) Victor    1 ea.    $75.
Shipping for all items listed is extra.
Contact: Lance Baumberger, San Luis Obispo, California  <baumbergerL@yahoo.com>
• From the R. (Buck) J. Boudeman collection
• Complete original 122 front drive supercharger and manifold - $10,000.00
• Original blower drive from Hepburns Type 28 Miller front drive - $10,000.00
• 1 - 270 factory built exhaust header, very good, little used, offset from flange to inside of tailpipe = 9 1/2" with  original used gasket - $1000.00
• Original 270-255 flatback bell housing, very good, no repairs or damage - $800.00
• 1 box multi disc clutch discs, hubs, shafts, springs, flywheel - $500.00
• Early Miller/Offy front cover, has been welded - $200.00
• 1 pair 8 valve cams - $200.00
• 1 fine tooth square drive speedway starter stub - Rare -  $400.00
• 1 Offy fuel pump, housing early Hilborn - $75.00
• 1 set 4 1/8" pistons - $200.00
• 1 set 4" pistons with pins, buttons, rings - $200.00
• 1 pair original Offy crankcase breathers, very good - $300.00
• 1 box misc parts, Hilabrand QC gears, valve guides, springs, master cylinder, water log, Zues fasteners - $150.00
• NOS AC black face mechanical tach as used in late Millers/Offy, 8000 RPM - $800.00
• 700/18 Firestone speedway tire, early style, mid thirties, worn - $200.00
• 1 pair 17" Riverside knobby tires, very good condition - $200.00

• Contact R J Boudeman at 269-629-9449.

• 1935 Offy Single Stick patterns and partial motor.

• Dated: 10-26-35.  Almost all of the patterns have this date.  Also a box of drawings and blue prints. See page 77 and 78 of Offenhauser, by White. - $25,000 or trade for midget or sprint.

• Contact: Mike Holland in Reno NV, 775-327-4146

• From a private collection - looking to trade for Miller 91 parts
• Miller 122 ci s/c motor, complete, including trombone intake manifold, supercharger, carburetor, side plates, dry sump, water manifold, pipes, cam covers, spider, crank, cams, pistons, valves, impeller, plugs, bell housing, gear tower, all present and in good condition to visual inspection. For sale, but prefer to trade for 91 ci motor.

• Other 122 Miller parts for sale:
• new cam bolts & cam hold downs
• rear leaf spring frame horns
• shock hangers rear
• shock mount front
• front hangers for rear spring
• rear hangers for front spring
• front axle ends
• front axle spring hangers
• steering wheel spark retard
• water pump impellers
• transmission parking brake
• water pump shafts (~8)
• finned crank case side plates (late 122) engine has early unfinned plates mounted.
• water inlet manifold
• X-drive magneto
• spare new bell housing
• clutch/flywheel
• crank gear
• timing gears
• cam gears
• oil pump
• Contact milleroffy@comcast.net

• Miller 122 supercharged project

 
• Contact Zakira's Garage at 513-272-2229

• Zakira's Garage is producing authentic Miller 122 and 91 parts - motors, chassis, etc. They can also build complete cars. These are being made from the original Miller drawings and patterns to an extremely high standard.  Contact them at 513-272-2229 or Zakira's Garage.

 
• The crankcase casting patterns for the Offy final design single-pumper version have been recovered. Crankcases castings from this tooling can be machined for use on the following engines. Contact Stewart Van Dyne at 714-847-4417.

-Miller, Offenhauser & Meyer-Drake ..... "high or low tower" 255/270/318's (1932 thru 1957)
-Meyer-Drake ..... 252 (1957 thru 1966)
-Drake ..... 251 EXP, 168  &  36, 22 {DGS} or 19 degree 159's (1968 thru 1978)

• Fossil Motorsport has new Miller, Offenhauser, Meyer & Drake 255 and 270 cylinder blocks. Details, prices, and contact info.

 
• The 1933 and 1936 Indy-winning Millers are for sale.  Contact Fossil Motorsports Inc. at 818-709-0694.

Memorabilia

Miller carb bowl cover emblem, about 2"x2". It is $15.
email: milleroffy@comcast.net
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Books

  "The Miller Dynasty" by Mark Dees

The definitive book on all things Miller, and also includes the Offenhauser history. A must-have for every historic racing car enthusiast. It is 562 pages in length, printed on 70 lb book gloss paper, with an index and annotated bibliography, 564 pages of photos, drawings, and detailed text. Vintage Motorbooks still has available the now-out-of-print 2nd edition at $250. Hurry before they're all gone again. Email Logan Gray at vintagemotorbooks@comcast.net or call 503-292-7747 (Pacific time evenings) to get a copy.
 
 
 
 
 

    Griffith Borgeson
Griffith Borgeson wrote over 15 books and hundreds of magazine articles on automotive history. He has long been recognized as one of the world’s preeminent automotive historians. The former Editor-in-Chief of Motor Trend Magazine, Borgeson also wrote for Sports Car Illustrated Magazine (now Car & Driver) and was the European editor for Automobile Quarterly. He also worked as a consultant for the Lincoln Division of the Ford Motor Company. The following list is a sample of his many writing awards: In 1966 the first edition of The Golden Age of the American Racing Car won the Thomas McKean Award for “book of the year” from the Antique Automobile Club of America; The Society of Automotive Historians Cugnot Award for “the outstanding magazine article of 1980” for “Beginnings of the VW Beetle” published in Automotive Quarterly; The Society of Automotive Historians Benz Award for “the outstanding magazine article of 1984” for “Edmund Rumplerlcarus Bound” published inAutomotive Quarterly; and The ITALA Prize from the Associazone Italiana Per La Storia Dell’Automobile (AISA) in 1985 for his collected works regarding the history of the Italian automobile. One of his great strengths as an author was that he established personal relationships with many pioneer builders, designers, and race car drivers. His intimate knowledge of the development of automotive technology could have come only from his relationships with the greats of automotive history. He shares information with his readers that could not be gleaned simply from history books. This among other traits sets him apart from other automotive writers. Some of his other books include: The Classic Twin-Cam Engine (Dalton Watson, 1981); Bugatti by Borgeson (Osprey Publishing, 1981); and, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, Miller (Motorbooks International, 1993).

"Miller" by Griff Borgeson.

The second definitive book on Harry Miller. No long in print, but still available from used book resellers and on eBay.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"The Golden Age of the American Racing Car" by Griff Borgeson.

A best seller and winner of the Antique Automobile Club of America's prestigious Thomas McKean Award.The Golden Age of the American Racing Car emphasizes the human side of racing history, offering insight into the men who shaped the golden age. Covering a period of time from the 1910s through the 1930s, the book describes the historical development of race car technology and presents fascinating information on race courses, designers, builders, drivers, and events. Racing pioneers covered include: Fred Duesenberg, Louis Chevrolet, Harry Miller, Leo Goossen, and Fred Offenhauser. Full of contemporary accounts and interviews. Available directly from the publisher at the incredibly low price of on $5.00 (originally $40). Buy it from the SAE bookstore.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"The Last Great Miller: The Four Wheel Drive Indy Car" by Griff Borgeson

Fascinating story of one of the most sophisticated racing cars of the early 1930s. Vintage Motorbooks -- $49.95, and elsewhere.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"The Marvelous Mechanical Designs of Harry A. Miller", by Gordon Eliot White, published by Iconografix Inc. Softbound, 126 pages.

Photos and text describing Miller's designs from racing cars and boats to a combat car and an engine for the Pitcairn AC-35 autogiro, passenger cars, a forerunner of midget racing cars and engines for aircraft from World War I to World War II. Miller anticipated the Stout Scarab and Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion cab-forward road cars, even the Plymouth Prowler; designs seen here in all their glorious, impractical, inscrutable idiosyncracy. The racing cars worked. In various forms they dominated American racing for years. The marine engines were the class of power boat racing in the 1920s and won the Gold Cup as late as 1946. Miller was undeniably a genius. Designs tumbled out of his fertile mind, some wonderfully successful, some too bizarre to be built; some were put into steel and aluminum but were fated for failure. This book scans his career in all its glories and defeats from 1919 through 1942.
 
 

Available directly from Gordon White at:
PO Box 129
Hardyville, VA 23070
$32.95 + $4.95 S&H
 

"Offenhauser" by Gordon White

The definitive book on America's most famous and longest lasting racing engine. White reviews its Miller origins and then details its development from the 1930s to the 1980s. Also included are the Offy midgets. Purchase your copy from Gordon White.
PO Box 129
Hardyville, VA 23070
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Offy - America's Greatest Racing Engine" by Ken Walton.

Over a decade in writing, it is probably the nearest thing you'll ever find to a technical manual on the engine and also includes a lot of background and photos. Available directly from the author at
25911 E. Outer Belt Rd.
Greenwood, MO
64034-8951
- or -
KenWalton@WaltonCues.com
- or -
Phone: evenings  816-537-5231
 

Softbound edition $74.95 + $7.50 S&H (Limited quantity of only 100 printed)
Hardbound edition $99.95 + $7.50 S&H (Available 4th quarter 2003)
Book corrections & updates - click here to open and download
 
 

"Board Track - Guts, Gold & Glory" by Dick Wallen

One of the classic books on early American auto racing…Dick Wallen’s Board Track: Guts, Gold and Glory. Published in 1990 it reviews the history of each board track written by an expert and is illustrated with over 400 period photographs and embellished with a large selection of Automobilia. It is offered at the original retail price of $100.00 plus shipping and handling. The book is essentially out of print with less than 200 copies remaining from the original printing. I always have a few copies on hand signed by Dick Wallen for my customers who do not have this important book.   Board Track has been one of Wallen’s most popular works and should be in the library of anyone interested in the Golden Age of American racing. Board Track is hard cover, 423 pages and over 500 pictures on gloss book paper with an index and statistical tables done by Phil Harms. Subject Index includes Louis Chevrolet, Fred Comer, Ralph DePalma, Peter DePaolo, Duesenberg, Harry Hartz, Eddie Hearne, Dave Lewis, Frank Lockhart, Harry Miller, Tommy Milton, Ralph Mulford, Jimmy Murphy, Barney Oldfield, Dario Resta, Eddie Rickenbacker, Fred Wagner, and many others. Tracks include Playa Del Rey, Oakland, Chicago, Tacoma, Omaha, Des Moines, Sheepshead Bay, Cincinnati, Uniontown, Beverly Hills, Fresno, Cotati, San Carlos, Kansas City, Altoona, Charlotte, Culver City, Laurel, Rockingham, Fulford, Atlantic City, Akron, Bridgeville, and Woodbridge.
 

Buy it from Gary Doyle
 
 
 

FUERZA LIBRE 1919-1942
Grand Prix, Sports Cars & Specials Racing in The Pampas
by Guillermo Sánchez.

Format: Hardcover 30.2 x 21.4 cm.
Weight: 1.625 Kg.
Pages: 370
Photos: More than 400 images
ISBN: 978-987-05-4882-9

The most valuable cars from the Vintage era, in exciting races under the Fuerza Libre regulatory framework, at the exotic circuits of the Argentine Pampas and the Patagonia, between 1919 and 1942. 370 pages, over 400 photos.
ALFA ROMEO, BENTLEY, BMW, BUGATTI, CADILLAC, CHRYSLER, DELAGE, DUESENBERG, FIAT, FORD, HUDSON, MASERATI, MERCEDES, MERCURY, PACKARD, REO, SUNBEAM, STUDEBAKER, STUTZ and others. This book also includes international participation of Argentine drivers and foreign visitors of the period.
 
 

"Ralph De Palma, Gentleman Champion" by Gary Doyle

Ralph De Palma was one of the greatest race car drivers of all time. He was a champion on the early American road courses, won during the speedway era and may have been the best dirt track racer in the history of the sport. He was one of the few American drivers to compete successfully in Europe before World War II, racing in three French and the first Italian Grand Prix. Ralph De Palma will be about 350 pages on 80# matte paper with 300 varnished historic photographs, many unpublished from 25 different collections. As in the Murphy book there will be artwork to add interest, color and drama. Unlike the King of the Boards, where several artists were utilized, Gentleman Champion is being illustrated by Peter Helck and Peter Hearsey. Helck, of course, focused much of his work on De Palma’s exploits while Hearsey is tackling new subject matter. It will be published in the fall of 2005. The first edition is limited to 1,500 copies individually numbered and signed. For collectors there will be a slip-cased version comprising the first 200 copies, bound in leather. Order your copy from Gary Doyle.
 
 

"King of the Boards, The Life and Times of Jimmy Murphy" by Gary Doyle.

This is a superb book that deserves to be in every racing enthusiast's collection.  The book is about 350 pages of text, photographs, graphs, charts and paintings.  It contains nearly 300 photographs, many of which have not previously been in print, and over 60 color paintings and pencil sketches.  Many of the paintings were commissioned for the book.  Purchase your copy at King of the Boards.
 
 
 
 

"Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America's Legendary Speed King" by William F. Nolan.

Barney was America’s most flamboyant race driver www.rumbledrome.com/barney.html. He took part in over one-thousand race meets between 1902 and 1918.  The machines he drove included Henry Ford’s ‘999’, Alexander Winton’s ‘Bullet’, the Peerless ‘Green Dragon’, the 200 hp German racer they labeled the ‘Blitzen Benz’, and Harry Miller’s Golden Submarine.  Purchase your copy at Brown Fox Books.
 
 
 
 
 

More books of interest are Design & Development of the Indy Racing Car" -- $15; most Road & Track and Sports Car Graphic back issues; most AQ back issues at $15; and many other automotive books.  Please email Logan Gray at vintagemotorbooks@comcast.net or call 503-292-7747 (Pacific time evenings) to get a copy.
 
 
 
 

Art

1/8 scale custom handcrafted vintage race care models by John Snowberger
 
 

Limited edition photo illustrations by Ed Dooley (1931 Miller V16, 1935 Miller-Ford, 1931 Miller, 1927 Miller, and more)
 

Miller bronzes motoring sculpture by Steve Posson (Miller 91FD, Miller 183 with Lockhart, Offy, other famous marques)

 

Models
 

• Replica Engines (Quarter-scale Offenhauser midget engine - and it runs)
• 1/4 Scale 270 Offy (Build your own from complete plans and machining instructions - runs to 12,000rpm)
• Miller 91 frontdrive by Brady Ward
• Lockhart Stutz LSR by Dennis Koleber
• A note regardging GMP's 1/16th scale turbo Offy, by Kenneth Walton

Fossil Motorsports Inc. 9800 D Topanga Canyon  Blvd, #350 Chatsworth Ca. 91311 E-mail: Fossilmotorsport@ aol.com Phone 818-709-0694  Fax. 818-718-8221 NEW PRICE FOR OFFY BLOCKS COMPLETE, with stainless valves fitted, included and with your supplied pistons fitted $18.500 Fossil Motorsports has sold and delivered over 26 blocks since undertaking production. They are currently stocking raw castings ready for machining as well as 1 each standard 255 and 1 each standard 270 block 98% finished except for final cylinder bore piston fitting and could ship within 4 weeks of receipt of your pistons. The 270 block is available at a special price of $17,250