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Doyt Roger Meyer
1932 - 2009
This photo of Doyt Meyer's 1933 Dodge jalopy was taken at Hooker, Oklahoma in the summer of 1959.
This photo showing Doyt Meyer's 1933 Dodge jalopy was also taken at Hooker, Oklahoma in the summer of 1959. The children are Doyt's daughter, Pam at left, and his son, Mark Meyer.
Doyt Meyer receives the spoils of winning the trophy dash on this night in the late 1950s at Hooker, Oklahoma. The flagman is Norman "Kelly" Steinle.
This photo Doyt Meyer's 1933 Dodge jalopy was also taken in the spring of 1959. He had raced the car the year before as the #8 but changed the number for 1959. By the end of June, 1959, Doyt had changed the car's number again, this time to #78.
This is another photo of Doyt Meyer's 1933 Dodge jalopy that was taken in the spring of 1959. He had raced the car the year before as the #8 but changed the number for 1959. By the end of June, 1959, Doyt had changed the car's number again, this time to #78.
This photo of Mag Brown (Doyt Meyer's mother-in-law) was taken at the racetrack at Hooker, Oklahoma after Mrs. Brown had driven Meyer's car in a Powder Puff Derby there. Meyer drove this jalopy in races at Hooker as well as at Ulysses and Liberal in Kansas. A mechanic on the car was "Big Ray" Hansen who owned an auto mechanic shop in Hooker.
"Dad’s car was a '33 Dodge coupe body on a '33 Plymouth 2-door sedan frame. The engine was a 251 cubic inch flathead 6 from a '49 Chrysler. He registered the car at the tracks as a '33 Chrysler. The head was milled to raise compression, the exhaust manifold was split, and the carburetor was from a Dodge truck (larger bore & bigger jets). It had a 3-speed manual transmission with reverse and low gear removed from the transmission to save weight and rotating mass inside the transmission (robs horsepower). He used 2nd and 3rd gear only and the spider gears in the rear differential were welded together to lock up the rear-end (drive both back tires). The stagger was set with different sized tires and softer or firmer shocks on each corner to improve cornering. From the picture, you can see the tall tire on the right rear slightly leaning in at the top due to the shorter tire on the left rear. With the 6-cylinder engine, rules allowed for a weight break (1350 lbs. I think…maybe wrong) compared to the V8s. Dad said the torque of the 6-cylinder with the weight break allowed for many good starts when the checker dropped as the heavier Hudsons and Ford V8s took a bit to get moving. The trophies in my office tell me he wasn’t lying. The interior was crude to say the least. It had a 30-gallon oil drum cut into a seat and welded to the X-member of the frame with a spacer beneath to raise it enough to see out. There was no floor in the car. He had some padding to cover the sharp edges of the oil drum and provide a little padding. Shoulder harnesses and a lap belt were installed and it’s a good thing. He received a “rollover trophy” one night as he was pushed off the track one night in a pile-up and landed on its top. The trophy is a little gold statue with a jalopy upside down." ~~~ Monty Meyer
Mary Magdalene "Mag" Brown
1922 - 2005
All of the photographs on this web page are from the Meyer family collection
