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MIDGET CARS-1
GUY IN CAR.
SOUND C
SOUND ON FITM COMING. TALK OVER SOME OF SOUND.
WW A - orSoap-box derby with motors at a brapd-new track
at Lake Worth! It's the first time out for
members of the Fort Worth-Dalla s Metropolitan
Micro-Midget Racing Association, Despite the
severe restrictions in size, these 10-horsepower
racers churn around the track at 30-miles--an--
hour; "It's kind of like driving around your
house" one racer says... They're off an running...
N FILM, UNTIL THEY GET TO OTHER END.
Club members build their own; they put betweeninto
15o-to-one-th6'usand-dollars IM each car. And
any member can buy any other car for 6-hundred-
dollars as soon as the race.is over---thatts to
discourage too much investment In a single car...
SOUND EX! UP FOR AWNIEE.
SCENE CHANGE (ONE CAR RUNNING) TALK OVER SOUND,
Mickey Upsong of Odessa goes into the lead in
Number 98... built by the NEKKO company of Odessa
for West Texas crop-duster W.E.Madden...
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Midget cars], script, April 29, 1956; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc789427/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.