Comments on: The First Sign Of Spring http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/ Speed is Life Fri, 24 May 2013 22:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6825 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:33:50 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6825 Getting that envelope is BY FAR my favorite sign of Spring. My wife and each get four seats (mine in the SE Vista and hers in the NW), so we get two of those each year. It always puts a smile on my face when I open the mailbox and see them.

Just FYI….. my ticket from the 1973 race has the Sweepstakes wordiing on it. I don’t know when they stopped it, but it was sometime between then and 1983 when I started getting my own tix, since I have all of the stubs since then.

]]> By: Mike Silver http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6780 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:50:22 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6780 It’s on the lower left, which is not in the photo. The photo only shows the main part of the ticket. This is one of the coolest tickets ever.

]]> By: Br!an McKay http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6779 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:56:22 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6779 I’d expect that you’d scan or photograph a ticket to show us.
I paid $186 for Saint Petersburg, and I had the privilege of printing several pages with my paper and ink rather than getting a holographic, gold-foil-labeled, four-color, beautiful representation of something distinctly Florida/Tampa Bay/Saint Petersburg/IndyCar street racing… To see the Grand Prix of Alabama, I bought a multicolor, little, plastic card Season Pass to Barber Motorsports Park…

]]> By: james t suel http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6777 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6777 I got my tickets friday also, and that made my day! I still have all my ticket stubs from my first 500 in 1960 thru this years. i always thought the tickets for the 500 were works of art.Iam now 60 years old ,an still get look for that great month of may.

]]> By: The Speedgeek http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6776 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:16:07 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6776 Great account of your receiving your tickets, George. Saturday was the Big Day here in Omaha. Good times. Good times, indeed, and even better times are just 2 1/2 months away.

]]> By: bentwickerbill http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6775 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:35:22 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6775 George, a copy of the 1937 500 ticket can be viewed here…

http://www.scpauctions.com/LotImages/14/0105-A_lg.jpeg

]]> By: JohnMc http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6774 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:43:07 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6774 The Ticket is like that with our local Nationwide races as well as the Bristol races.

]]> By: billytheskink http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6773 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:19:13 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6773 If the history books are correct, the 1979 race was the last to officially be called the “International 500 Mile Sweepstakes”. The “Indianapolis 500 Mile Race” has been the official name since.

]]> By: Jim Gallo http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6772 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:17:16 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6772 Got my tickets in the mail last Friday too. A happy day it was.

]]> By: billytheskink http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6771 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:15:09 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-first-sign-of-spring/#comment-6771 Making me even more anxious about receiving tickets to my first 500.
Hope they come soon, very soon.

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