IndyCar from another time.

I often wonder why certain people that have never attended this 500 mile race. This race has grab my attention since a very early age. I was sitting on my Grandfathers lap and how I must of been just around 5 years old or so. Grandfather told me how he and Grandmother went to the 1925;500 mile race. Grandfather was in a suit and Grandmother was in her Sunday best. Then he told me how the stood on top of the car behind the pits to watch the race. Yes standing right on top of the car in the heat in a suit and Grandmother in a dress. I love the romance between to people and knowing my Grandmother very well. She could of only went to that race because of the love she had for Grandfather that day. Epically in a dress standing on top of the family car in some sort of heels that grandfather probable freaking out that her shoes might scratch the car. Now these two only lived on 21st and Sharron by Kessler Blvd. Knowing Grandfather he was real nervous until about ten laps set in the race to get Grandmother off the top of the car. I think Grandfather told me he just bought the dag-gone new car and there was Grandmother standing right on the top of the car for the start of the race.
I know the 500 mile race meant so much to certain people in the 1920's era and to a certain person around 1927. Eddie Rickenbacker the poor kid from Columbus who first raced in the 1912 500 mile race and was a WW1 hero; then founded Eastern Airlines became the second Indy 500 owner. The love that Eddie did have at the time for the race track.

Jim Gandolf