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Legendary Indy Car builder and team owner Rolla …
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ROLLA VOLLSTEDT, 99 - USAC Racing
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Oregon car owner and businessman Rolla Vollstedt died Sunday, Oct. 22 at age 99. Active in the sport of racing for five decades, he served as a USAC Board Member from 1968-1984 and, in 1977, fielded a car for Janet Guthrie to become the first female driver in …
Indy 500 car entrant Rolla Vollstedt dies aged 99
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Vollstedt cars never won an Indy car race, but his team’s day in the sun came in 1967 at Riverside, when Jimmy Clark drove for the squad in one of the series then-rare forays away from ovals. The...
Rolla Vollstedt (1918-2017) – Vintage Road & Racecar
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October 25, 2017 0 Rolla Vollstedt (1918-2017) Longtime Indianapolis 500 car entrant Rolla Vollstedt, perhaps best remembered for …
Rolla Vollstedt 1940 | In Memoriam | Reed Magazine
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Rolla Vollstedt, widely considered one of the most influential race car designers of the 20th century, died in Portland at the age of 99. He pioneered the concept of putting the engine in the rear of the car—now a standard design element—and …
The story of Rolla Vollstedt and Jim Clark in 1967
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Rolla Vollstedt: Oregon's Indy 500 pioneer dies at age 99
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A Southwest Portland man who was a leader in several breakthroughs in auto racing — including hiring the first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500 — has died at …
Rolla Vollstedt Obituary (2017) - Portland, OR - The …
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Sept. 8, 1918 - Oct. 22, 2017 Rolla was born Sept. 8, 1918 in Hutton, Alberta, Canada, to Fred and Cleo (McCoy) Vollstedt. He was drafted into World War II. …
Winged Victory: Rolla Vollstedt's pioneering car and …
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The car, Ford-powered chassis 67-B, was one of two designed and built by Rolla Vollstedt and his team in Portland, Oregon, to compete in the 1967 Indy 500, which it did under the hand of Cale Yarborough. Yarborough had taken over 67-B, after wrecking chassis 67-A in practice, then qualified 20th in it, with a speed of 162.830 MPH.
Vollstedt; from Track Roadsters to Indy Cars, the Rolla Vollstedt …
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Rolla would continue to race at Indy through 1984, and also compete in England during a USAC tour in 1978. Vollstedt would continue to race his Offy powered cars through 1981, and was the last team owner to do so. From 1982 other V-8 engines like the Cosworth dominated the field and the storied Offy engines ceased to race at the 500.
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