I am sure all of you have heard of the infamous crash before. Details on the 1971 Challenger convertible pace cars & replicas that were at the track that day have been published before, so I am not going to rehash all those details here. What I am going to do is give you a look at the Indianapolis newspapers & what they had to print about the event that day. Also included are some related stories & interesting ads from the same papers.

I hope you enjoy seeing these as much as I did. All the images below are from The Indianapolis News (Home & Blue Streak editions) & Lafayette Journal & Courier.



Special thanks to Tom Finocchio for donating these original newspapers, it was a real treat finding these in my mail today.

Barry