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WANTED



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


 

Any of the series of Chateau Art photos of the Frank Lockhart 183 dirt-track car (#4 is missing from the published #1 - #5)

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


FOR SALE

Cars & Boats


Memorabilia

  Cloisonné Miller pin (hit at the 2004 Miller meet)
  7/16" x 7/8"
  Available in polished gold, brushed gold, or polished nickel-chrome. Please specify finish.
  $5 US postpaid
  John Sanderson
  3491 Mossbank Dr.
  Oakland, MI
  48363
  email: oldcarman@comcast.net
 
 
 

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

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 Ralph De Palma will be about 350 pages on 80# matte paper with 300 varnished historic photographs, many unpublished from 25 different collections.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.
 
 

"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
 
 

"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 at:
PO Box 129
Hardyville, VA 23070
$32.95 + $4.95 S&H
 

"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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Vintage Motorbooks still has available the now-out-of-print 2nd edition of "The Miller Dynasty" by Mark Dees -- $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.
 
 
 
 
 
 

  No long in print, but still available from used book resellers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"The Last Great Miller: The Four Wheel Drive Indy Car" by Griff Borgeson has been published and is now available.  Vintage Motorbooks -- $49.95, and elsewhere.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Offenhauser" by Gordon White is 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

More books of interest are "The Golden Age of the American Racing Car" original edition with dust jacket -- $40; "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.
 
 

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)


Fossil Motorsports, Inc.

Please note, new address

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
$16,500