The Harry A. Miller Club Vintage Indy Car Exhibition, 2004
 
The Harry A. Miller Club Vintage Indy Car Exhibition was held July 10-11th at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in West Allis, Wisc. Organizers attempted to have every Miller in the world show up this year, and it produced the largest collection of Millers in modern times. Five of the ten Miller-Fords built showed up; 122s in project form, the Miller Golden Sub, a Duesenberg 91, and many other fascinating cars were brought to the meet. Both Saturday and Sunday were beautiful, clear days and there was plenty of track action and ride time.

The Club has done a great job of preserving a wonderfully cordial and open atmosphere for all attendees.  At what other event can you stand in pit row and watch and listen to the best historical race cars from around the world and then go and chat with the owners, drivers, and restorers at leisure?

Cars in attendance included:
 
1916 Miller Golden Submarine Boudeman
1957 Miskowski - AJ Foyt car Bowser
1964 Federal Engineering Special Boyce
1927 Bugatti, Type 35B Brunkhorst
1919 Ballot Collier
1924 Miller Collier
1930 Miller-Schofield Cammarano
1913 National Semi-racer Chicago Museum of Science & Industry
1926 Miller Davis
1927 Miller 91 front-drive Davis
1931 Miller V16 Davis
1931 Duesenberg  Davis
1935 Miller-Ford Davis
1937 Miller-Gulf Davis
1903 Packard Gray Wolf Davis/Boulton
1913 Mercer Davis/Boulton
1952 Kurtis Kraft 4000 Dittman
1912 Cutting Eby
1935 Ford Evans
1938 Sparks Freeman
270 Offy Hahn
1912 Mercer Raceabout 35 Lederer
1946 Jewell Special Lederer
1935 Front-drive display LeFever
1935 Miller-Ford Malloy
1937 Miller Malloy
1948 Kurtis Kraft Don Lee Special Malloy
1934 Sparks Weirick Miller Mecum
1923 Mercedes Benz Miller McConnell
1919 Areo Engine "Tosi" Special Mittler
1934 Detroit Gasket Special Natenshon
1959 Watson Pfitzenmaier
1952 Kurtis sprint Randol
1927 Miller 91 front-drive Rasansky
1927 Miller 91 rear-drive Rasansky
1961 Chenowth Schleppi
1964 Watson Taylor
1948 Pat Clancy Special Thomas/Watson
1963 Watson Thomas/Watson
1959 Watson Timolat
1938 Clyde Adams Truchan
1947 Indy car Truchan
1912 Mercer raceabout Uihlein
1923 Miller Uihlein
1925 Miller front-drive Uihlein
1931 Miller-Bowes Uihlein
1935 Bagley Cragar sprint Uihlein
1938 Sparks "Big Six" Uihlein
1960 Watson Ulinski
1924 Miller restoration Weeks
KK500C Windstrup
1923 Miller Zakiras
1934 MGNA Zakiras
1935 Miller-Ford Zakiras

It was a real treat to see the Miller Golden Sub at this year's meet. Many people had only seen the car in photos as it had not been at the meet for the past five years. Another treat was the appearance of 5 of the 10 original Miller-Fords. The recently restored Miller Boyle Special, from Collier's, was also running.
 
 

Photos
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Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller Golden Sub

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 engine

Miller 183 Convertible

Miller 122 Milton

Miller 122 Milton

Miller 122 Milton

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 restoration

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller 122 Boyle Special

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Schofield

Miller-Ford

Miller-Ford

Miller-Ford

Miller-Ford

Miller-Ford

Miller-Fords

Miller-Fords

Miller-Fords

Miller-Ford Welch

Miller-Ford Welch

Miller-Ford Welch

Miller-Gulf

Miller-Gulf

Miller-Gulf

Miller-Gulf

Miller-Gulf

Miller-Gulf

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Duesenberg 91

Some photos provided by Marty Baltmanis and David Reich.

Sounds

These audio tracks were recorded on a MiniDisc recorder. They are in stereo and are saved at the widest possible frequency response (20Hz - 16kHz) available within RealPlayer (hence the large file size). RealPlayer (rm) was chosen over Windows advanced streaming format (asf) because the accuracy of the sound is noticeably better. The track sounds should all run clearly from right to left: sometimes streaming audio mixes this up during playback and you hear left to right or just mono. Replaying the sound again after the first playback usually gets it to play correctly. To really hear how the cars sounded, hook up a pair of full-range, high quality home speakers or high quality headphones rather than just using typical computer speakers.

The recording location was directly across from the grandstands, facing the track. The cars accelerate out of the turn off to the right, come down the grandstand straight from right to left, and then decelerate for the next turn. You can occasionally hear voices and other cars in the pit row that was right behind the recording location.
 

Miller Golden Sub starting up, cold idling, and driving away (396k - 39 sec)

Miller Golden Sub warm idling, and driving away (209k - 20 sec)

Miller Golden Sub on track, 2 passes (143k - 14 sec)
 

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