Hugh Babb Information
Stock Car Racing History
Randy,
No problem - thanks for getting back to me!
Andrew
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Stock Car Racing History
Hugh Babb Information
Stock Car Racing History
Tim,
Thanks for that! (ust re your recent post on 50's Nascar - very interesting! My searches on Babb have lead me through that whole period and I'm learning about tracks, promotors & drivers every day. It's hard over here as most motor race fans prefer F1 (too much like slot car racing for me) so I'm on virgin ground!!
Andrew
Hugh Babb Information
Stock Car Racing History
Further to my earlier post I have found that Billy Myers raced a "Hugh Babb-owned" 55 Chevy in the Grand National series in November & December of 1955.
So far I have found no ino on this car - was Babb the actual owner or builder? Does anyone have pictures of this car?
Interesting because this was before the formation of SEDCO. Was this car fuel injected or did it have carbs??
Thhe search continues!!
Andrew, Twickenham.
PS anyone need some English searches done??
Hugh Babb Information
Stock Car Racing History
Hi everyone,
For sometime I have been researching the life of Hugh Babb. It seems the first race car he built was a 37 Ford for Al Dykes that was driven by Billy Carden. After that came a 40 Ford that was driven by Fonty Flock. This was all at the begining of Nascar in 1947/48.
I next have him building the Studebaker #33 for JP Rotton around 54 and then shortly after he joined SEDCO. When that folded I have nothing til 1963 when a story shows in a Spartanburg paper that he joined Jack Smith's Transmissions. Then again nothing til he died in 1977.
What I want to know is what happened in between the info I know. The 1940 US Census lists his occupation as a farmer but in interviews I have read with others, he was a mechanical genius, hot on fuel injection which in cars of 1947 was pretty new.
Can anyone help with info and photos?
Many thanks,
Andrew,
Twickenham, England.
updated by @andrew-minney: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM