Vintage Racing?

[Theodderthebetter]

I want to add to the thread. I have 32 different Schaefer 500 cards with a few autographed. They are very hard to find and I think businesses gave them away. I have 2 cards with woolworth of Allentown Pa. stamp on the back. It took me almost 30 years and buying them when i saw them to aquire the 32 different cards. Scott

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Theodderthebetter

I want to add to the thread. I have 32 different Schaefer 500 cards with a few autographed. They are very hard to find and I think businesses gave them away. I have 2 cards with woolworth of Allentown Pa. stamp on the back. It took me almost 30 years and buying them when i saw them to aquire the 32 different cards. Scott

Wow, awesome post. I would not have ever guessed there were so many cards. I guess that makes sense, though, since the existence of a Johnny Hubbard car shows the set included some pretty obscure drivers who made limited Champ Car starts.

[Justus]

Originally Posted by Theodderthebetter

I want to add to the thread. I have 32 different Schaefer 500 cards with a few autographed. They are very hard to find and I think businesses gave them away. I have 2 cards with woolworth of Allentown Pa. stamp on the back. It took me almost 30 years and buying them when i saw them to aquire the 32 different cards. Scott

Wow, that is cool! Do you have a list of them you could copy to here? I'd love to have a complete list. Thanks!

[Theodderthebetter]

i"ll see what I can do this weekend. I think they are way undervalued because so few people know they exist.

[Theodderthebetter]

Here are the cards i have: Andretti,G. Bettenhausen,Bigelow,Pancho Carter,Dallenbach,Foyt,Spike Gehlhausen,BobHarkey,Hubbard,Johncock,Sheldon Kinser,Lee Kunzman,Steve Krisiloff,Al lquasto,Larry McCoy,John Martin,Mike Mosley,jim McElreath,Johnny Parsons,Eldon Rasmussen,Johnny Rutherford,Lloyd Ruby,Tom Sneva,George Snider,Salt Walther,Al Unser,Bubby Unser,Bill Vukovich,Jerry Karl,Roger McCluskey,Bill Puterbaugh,Dick Simon,

[Justus]

Thank you! So many to find now, LOL.

[Jobu]

Here's a Type 1 of HOFer Earl Cooper at the 1916 Vanderbilt Cup.

[Bored5000]

I won an auction on Sunday for a set of 31 cards very similar to Justus' "Allentown Week of Wheels" cards pictured a few days ago in this thread. The weird thing about the set I won is that the cards are labeled as being from 1975 and labeled as being a "Wilkes Barre Schaefer 500 salute."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1975-P...AAAOSw86dexBiq

The images look to be the same as the Allentown cards. From what i could see, new cards not previously known are Sammy Sessions, Mike Hiss, Bentley Warren, Jimmy Carruthers and Mel Kenyon.

The closing auction price really shocked me: $39.43 with just one other bidder besides myself above $13. I thought the cards may close at least somewhere in the neighborhood of the Marhoefer cards when those come up for auction. I wasn't expecting the price to be just over $1 a card.

The appearance of a different set of cards carrying advertising for Wilkes Barre, Pa., makes me wonder if the cards were exclusive to Woolworth's. That chain was huge in the 1970s, and Wikipedia says they did have a store in Wilkes Barre in addition to Allentown, Pa.