Sammy Sessions Driving "Spit Fire Special" Race Car at Indianapolis 500, May 1967

THF134571 / Sammy Sessions Driving "Spit Fire Special" Race Car at Indianapolis 500, May 1967

Artifact Overview

Sammy Sessions competed in the USAC Championship Car series from 1965-1975. He started in 62 races, including seven appearances in the Indianapolis 500, and earned 21 top-ten finishes. Sessions made his personal-best fourth-place Indy 500 finish in 1972, and he earned a USAC Sprint Car Series championship that same year. Sessions was killed in a snowmobile racing accident in 1977.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Slide (Photograph)

Subject Date

May 1967

Collection Title

Dave Friedman Collection

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.3627

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in

Keywords	United States, Indiana, Indianapolis Slides (Photographs) Photographs Automobile racing Racing cars Sessions, Sammy, 1935-1977 Thompson, Mickey, 1928-1988 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis 500 (Automobile race)