The Harry A. Miller Club Vintage Indy Car Exhibition was held July 10-11th at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in West Allis, Wisc. Organizers attempted to have every Miller in the world show up this year, and it produced the largest collection of Millers in modern times. Five of the ten Miller-Fords built showed up; 122s in project form, the Miller Golden Sub, a Duesenberg 91, and many other fascinating cars were brought to the meet. Both Saturday and Sunday were beautiful, clear days and there was plenty of track action and ride time.

The Club has done a great job of preserving a wonderfully cordial and open atmosphere for all attendees.  At what other event can you stand in pit row and watch and listen to the best historical race cars from around the world and then go and chat with the owners, drivers, and restorers at leisure?

Cars in attendance included:
 

1916 Miller Golden Submarine	Boudeman
1957 Miskowski - AJ Foyt car	Bowser
1964 Federal Engineering Special	Boyce
1927 Bugatti, Type 35B	Brunkhorst
1919 Ballot	Collier
1924 Miller	Collier
1930 Miller-Schofield	Cammarano
1913 National Semi-racer	Chicago Museum of Science & Industry
1926 Miller	Davis
1927 Miller 91 front-drive	Davis
1931 Miller V16	Davis
1931 Duesenberg	Davis
1935 Miller-Ford	Davis
1937 Miller-Gulf	Davis
1903 Packard Gray Wolf	Davis/Boulton
1913 Mercer	Davis/Boulton
1952 Kurtis Kraft 4000	Dittman
1912 Cutting	Eby
1935 Ford	Evans
1938 Sparks	Freeman
270 Offy	Hahn
1912 Mercer Raceabout 35	Lederer
1946 Jewell Special	Lederer
1935 Front-drive display	LeFever
1935 Miller-Ford	Malloy
1937 Miller	Malloy
1948 Kurtis Kraft Don Lee Special	Malloy
1934 Sparks Weirick Miller	Mecum
1923 Mercedes Benz Miller	McConnell
1919 Areo Engine "Tosi" Special	Mittler
1934 Detroit Gasket Special	Natenshon
1959 Watson	Pfitzenmaier
1952 Kurtis sprint	Randol
1927 Miller 91 front-drive	Rasansky
1927 Miller 91 rear-drive	Rasansky
1961 Chenowth	Schleppi
1964 Watson	Taylor
1948 Pat Clancy Special	Thomas/Watson
1963 Watson	Thomas/Watson
1959 Watson	Timolat
1938 Clyde Adams	Truchan
1947 Indy car	Truchan
1912 Mercer raceabout	Uihlein
1923 Miller	Uihlein
1925 Miller front-drive	Uihlein
1931 Miller-Bowes	Uihlein
1935 Bagley Cragar sprint	Uihlein
1938 Sparks "Big Six"	Uihlein
1960 Watson	Ulinski
1924 Miller restoration	Weeks
KK500C	Windstrup
1923 Miller	Zakiras
1934 MGNA	Zakiras
1935 Miller-Ford	Zakiras

It was a real treat to see the Miller Golden Sub at this year's meet. Many people had only seen the car in photos as it had not been at the meet for the past five years. Another treat was the appearance of 5 of the 10 original Miller-Fords. The recently restored Miller Boyle Special, from Collier's, was also running.
 
 

Photos
(click on any photo to enlarge to full-size)

Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub	Miller Golden Sub
Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine
Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 engine
Miller 183 engine	Miller 183 Convertible	Miller 122 Milton	Miller 122 Milton
Miller 122 Milton	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration
Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration
Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration
Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 restoration	Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller 122 Boyle Special
Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller 122 Boyle Special
Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller 122 Boyle Special	Miller-Schofield	Miller-Schofield
Miller-Schofield	Miller-Schofield	Miller-Schofield	Miller-Schofield
Miller-Schofield	Miller-Ford	Miller-Ford	Miller-Ford
Miller-Ford	Miller-Ford	Miller-Fords	Miller-Fords
Miller-Fords	Miller-Ford Welch	Miller-Ford Welch	Miller-Ford Welch
Miller-Gulf	Miller-Gulf	Miller-Gulf	Miller-Gulf
Miller-Gulf	Miller-Gulf
Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91
Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91
Duesenberg 91	Duesenberg 91

Some photos provided by Marty Baltmanis and David Reich.

Sounds

These audio tracks were recorded on a MiniDisc recorder. They are in stereo and are saved at the widest possible frequency response (20Hz - 16kHz) available within RealPlayer (hence the large file size). RealPlayer (rm) was chosen over Windows advanced streaming format (asf) because the accuracy of the sound is noticeably better. The track sounds should all run clearly from right to left: sometimes streaming audio mixes this up during playback and you hear left to right or just mono. Replaying the sound again after the first playback usually gets it to play correctly. To really hear how the cars sounded, hook up a pair of full-range, high quality home speakers or high quality headphones rather than just using typical computer speakers.

The recording location was directly across from the grandstands, facing the track. The cars accelerate out of the turn off to the right, come down the grandstand straight from right to left, and then decelerate for the next turn. You can occasionally hear voices and other cars in the pit row that was right behind the recording location.
 

Miller Golden Sub starting up, cold idling, and driving away (396k - 39 sec)

Miller Golden Sub warm idling, and driving away (209k - 20 sec)

Miller Golden Sub on track, 2 passes (143k - 14 sec)
 

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