Don Edmunds ... Born ... Racecar driver and car builder. He had his first start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1957. He won the 1957 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year after finishing nineteenth over Bill Cheesbourg, Elmer George, Mike Magill, and Eddie Sachs. Edmunds' Indy career ended in with a serious practice accident at the Speedway in 1958. He founded Autoresearch, Inc. in Anaheim, California, which specialized in building midget cars and sprint cars. His chasis won several National Midget Championships in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He became a collector and restorer of old race cars. He built Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Sky cycle. Edmunds was named to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1991and was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Gordon Johncock won the USAC sanctioned Trenton 200 on the 1.5 Mile Paved Oval Trenton International Speedway in Trenton, NJ. Bobby Unser was second followed by Wally Dallenbach, Johnny Rutherford and Jim McElreath.
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