Landy's #17 Takes Top Honors at Santa Barbara Concours d'Elegance

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*** Update ~ Additional photos from Santa Barbara ~ Update*** Landy's #17 Kurtis Kraft Midget took top honors at the prestigious 25th Annual Santa Barbara Concours d'Elegance Sunday, October 30, 2011. The #17 won First in Class in the Race Car Division and received a special "Greatest Racing Heritage" award. (Seated in car: Heather LaPlant, Landy's great-grand daughter, visiting from Florida) New: See Landy's "Brick of Honor" (click here) Welcome to Landy's website where you can relive memories or learn firsthand how a virtual unknown from Milwaukee, Wisconsin competed against the nation's greatest racing stars of yesteryear. A fan favorite throughout the Midwest, Landy drove his famous #17 midget racer, powered by an unconventional Studebaker engine, on a shoestring budget to victories on oval dirt tracks everywhere. Follow Landy's career from it's inception as a member of the great Wally Zale's pit crew, to his winning the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association's 1947 Championship and eventually becoming the president of Badger. You'll read and see photos of the history of Landy's midget and how it eventually returned home to the Scott Family after 48 years, and its success on the car show circuit today. Don't forget to sign Landy's New Guestbook      Support Our Troops

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