Myron Stevens (February 17, 1901 Los Angeles, California – July 2, 1988 Sun City West, Arizona) was an American racecar driver, but achieved more fame as a racecar builder. Stevens started working for Harry A. Miller in 1922, building bodies, frames and fuel tanks for Miller race cars. In 1927, Frank S. Lockhart, the winner of the 1926 Indianapolis 500, hired Stevens to help create the body for Lockhart's Stutz Black Hawk land speed record car. After Lockhart was killed in that car while attempting a land speed record in 1928, Stevens established his own shop and continued building racecar bodies. In 1930, the second through sixth place finishers at the Indianapolis 500 all had Stevens chassis. He built cars for Indy stars such as Louis Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Peter DePaolo, Chet Gardner,

Rex Mays Rex Houston Mays Jr. (March 10, 1913 – November 6, 1949) was a AAA Championship Car race driver. He was a two-time AAA champion and won 8 points-scoring races. He made his Indianapolis 500 debut in 1934 and won the pole in 1935, 1936, and aga ...

and others. In 1955, one of his cars took pole position at Indy

Career awards

*He was inducted in the

National Sprint Car Hall of Fame The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum is a Hall of Fame and museum for sprint car drivers, owners, mechanics, builders, manufacturers, promoters, sanctioning officials and media members. The museum is located in Knoxville, Iowa, the ho ...

in 1993. *

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is an automotive museum on the grounds of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, United States, which houses the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame. It is intrinsically linked to the Indi ...

inducted Stevens into its ranks in 1993.

Indy 500 results

References

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