Midget Photos Taken at Tulsa, Oklahoma

From the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s

From the Photo Collection of Floyd Seago

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The #8 midget owned and driven by Dick Sharp in 1946.  Click your mouse on the photo to see one with Shap seated in this same midget.

 

 

This Ford powered midget was owned by Dick Sharp but please contact Bob Lawrence at sprintguy @ cox.net if you can identify the driver.

 

 

#8 Dick Sharp leading #3 Angelo Howerton (center) and #71 Gregg Tiederman (at right) at the Tulsa Fair n 1946 – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

Bud Camden in the Gibson Offy

  

 

If you recognize either this driver or midget, please contact Bob Lawrence

 

  

That is Bill Rudolph climbing out of the #1 midget.  If you recognize the other driver or midget, please contact Bob Lawrence

 

 

#13 Norman Ruldoph in a midget owned by Angelo Howerton.  The other driver is unidentified – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

Ralph Outcalt in the #13 Walker special.  This is the same midget that Norman Ruldoph was driving in the photo just above.  Click your mouse on the photo here to see little better photo of Outcalt in this same midget from the Outcalt family collection.  That one was taken in 1947.

 

 

Judge Cecil Holt, a.k.a. “Cecil Green” in the #18 M. A. Walker Offy

 

 

George Binnie in what later became one of Bud Hemphill’s first midgets – Gene Barton photo

 

 

#22 Bud Hemphill, #8 Dick Sharp, and the #7jr was being driven by one of the Booth brothers

 

 

 

 

If you can identify either driver or midget, please contact Bob Lawrence at: sprintguy @ cox.net

 

 

The #54 McCaslin Stores Ford V8-60 after being crashed by Tommy Vardeman in time trials

 

 

#55 Buddy Cagle in 1949 in a Ford V8-60 powered midget owned by Burt Van

 

 

Carl Oliver in a midget he built in 1945.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another of Oliver in this same midget one year later.

 

 

 

George Koche in Carl Oliver’s Ford V8-60 powered midget in 1946 

 

 

 

J. D. “Lover Boy” Parks in the #66 Bynum Offy in 1950

 

 

Gregg Tiederman in his Ford V8-60 midget with friend “Big” Staufer kneeling at right in 1947

 

 

 

 Junior Howerton in 1950.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another taken of him in this same midget that year.

 

 

Junior Howerton in his Howerton Ford V8-60 – Gene Barton photo

 

 

This photo was taken in either 1946 or 1947.  If you can identify the midget or the driver, please contact Bob Lawrence at: sprintguy @ cox.net – Gene Barton photo

 

 

This unified photo was taken during the Tulsa fair in 1946 – Gene Barton photo