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11 kwi 2011 · On an occasion during Gerber's hey-day as a race driver, rumors that he had been killed in a crash in Milwaukee spread like wildfire around the Cedar Rapids area. Old-timers said those few rumors resulted in a flood of calls to the old Cedar Rapids Gazette-Republican newsroom.
This is a list alphabetically sorted, and structured after the kind of competition, of the more notable driver deaths, excluding those of motorcycle riders. In addition, several racing drivers have been killed in public road crashes; see List of people who died in road accidents .
Mr. Gerber built a road speedster from a model 490 Chevrolet 4-cylin- der and drove it for the first time at St. Joseph, Missouri, taking second place on May 30, 1921. He was hooked and by 1923 he designed his first bob-tail, a Chevy with an Olds- mobile head and no tail.
John Gerber was born this day in Kansas in 1896. The 1992 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee raced for the first time in 1921, finishing second in St. Joseph, Missouri. He had built a model...
8 lis 2008 · I know the sprint car hall of fame museum in Iowa has John Gerber's early 1920s sprint car,...I was wondering if anyone on here has any good photos of it from the museum?? I can't...
23 lis 2015 · Joe Gemza had the old Gerber 4Banger in an orange sprint car. I forget the history on the car but it had enough original MILLER bits on it to cause someone to buy it and chuck all the Gerber parts and restore it back to its original MILLER appearance.
23 lis 2015 · Here is a copy of John Gerber's 1920s sprint car.... the Whippet Special that I built. Model T engine with an SR Fronty OHV conversion. Whippet grill she'll. Modified T frame.
