From the pages of http://blog.hemmings.comBecause we haven’t featured nearly enough newsreel footage or spin dizzy action around here comes this featurette titled Midget Motor Mania. According to the American Miniature Racing Car Association, these tiny six-pound versions of popular race cars were a hit with kids across the land.
Give a boy or man a motor, and the battle of skill and daring against the power of machines brings out fast and furious action – also the newsreel cameraman!
We can thank those intrepid cameramen for capturing this footage of auto racing for kids the way it used to be. Dizzy thrills and deadly spills, and watch that whirling, spinning, crash! Well not really. Check out the video for race cars that burn up an ounce of fuel per quarter mile.
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Yo to go back in time.
