1951 Jim Robbins Special

[pylonguy2003]

Just picked up the newly released 1951 Jim Robbins Special kit and wondered if anyone has a color photo of this car or a color call out for this. Thanks.

Tim

[jimhamill]

Tim,

Where did you get it?

Just did a Google search & popped up a lot of pics of the car

Jim

[nesmra]

Hi Jim

The Jim Robins special is one of the Gary Doucette re released cars by Big Small scale. It's on E-Bay now Under Indy resin 11:45 AM  06/26/20.

It looks like the same car as the 1950 winner and 1949 second place. If so that was quite a car.One 500 win and two seconds in 3 years.

I have the 1950 kit and it is very nice.

Ralph

Ralph Ellery

NESMRA   ( It's a Super Modified thing )

Brooksville Fl

[roadcourse]

There are a number of possibilities with this car. According to author Rick Shaffer, it was the first Kurtis built solely for Kurtis in 1948, with Tommy Hinnershitz finishing 9th. Parsons took it to 2nd and then the win in 1950. Mike Nazaruk drove it to 2nd in '51, and Parsons returned to the car for 10th place in '52.

[pylonguy2003]

Jim

It appears to be the same kit as the 1950 winner as it uses the instructions from sheet from that. I found plenty of black and white photos but no color photos. I found the 1951 Highlight film on YouTube and it looks to me like it was the same color as 1950 with different markings.

[jimhamill]

Thanks to both of you for alerting me to the source - I bought the '50 winner he offered but missed seeing the '51 version

The books I leafed through all indicate the colors were the same (or close to) as for the '50 winner

Jim

[oldphotos]

Ed Walsh who owned the car in 1948,49,and 1950 sold the car to Jim Robbins on Race Day morning 1950, who took possession of the car after the 1950 Race. So the car remained the same color Yellow as the 1950 Winner.
In 1948 & 49 this was the Kurtis house car but owned by Ed Walsh.
The Walsh family was a ponente family in St. Louis and the local 1/4 dirt track was named Walsh Stadium, was also use by St. Louis U. and there is a large plaque now on the campus of St. Louis U. comigrating the Walsh family.
Ed Walsh was also one of the founder of the SCCA. where he raced into his late 60's along another former Indy Car owner Jack Hinkle.

[pylonguy2003]

Walt

Thanks so much for this information. Now all I have to do is build it! ☺

[lolagt00]

I believe I have some slides of Ed Walsh (I believe he ran a white Bobsy-Saab H-Modified) at Mid-America Raceway MAR back in the '60s and Jack Hinkle too. Jack went through a number of cars Brabham-Climax,Lola T-160 always bright red and immaculate. Jack's mechanic always wore a red Tam-O-Shanter or maybe it was Jack. Jack had a spot behind the pits in the Oak Trees to prep his car. He sold the Lola to Dick Durant who ran the Can-Am, my brother Chuck and I stopped by his house to see the Lola when he first got it. I have lots of slides from MAR 63-75my brother Chuck took, need to clean them up and publish.

[gwstexas]

Jun 28, 2020 15:58:11 GMT -5 oldphotos said:

Ed Walsh who owned the car in 1948,49,and 1950 sold the car to Jim Robbins on Race Day morning 1950, who took possession of the car after the 1950 Race. So the car remained the same color Yellow as the 1950 Winner.
In 1948 & 49 this was the Kurtis house car but owned by Ed Walsh.
The Walsh family was a ponente family in St. Louis and the local 1/4 dirt track was named Walsh Stadium, was also use by St. Louis U. and there is a large plaque now on the campus of St. Louis U. comigrating the Walsh family.
Ed Walsh was also one of the founder of the SCCA. where he raced into his late 60's along another former Indy Car owner Jack Hinkle.

A few years ago, when the late Gary Doucette and I were discussing decals I was making for his kits, we used to joke about passing "the Walt test." We knew that Walt would notice any mistakes we made and that kept us on our toes. If everything passed the Walt test, we could be sure we had it right. Posts like this one show why. I appreciate the help and I know Gary did, too.
Be safe!
Gary