The 1st "Christmas Tree" Indy 63...
Limited-Edition Print of 630 (13"x19") Signed and numbered by the Artist. Early Thursday morning and the Gassers go to the line to tryout this new timing system. You can see by the tire marks that only a couple of cars have been down the track so far. It looks like "Big" John is on his way down track; and is that "Stone-Woods&Cook next in line? You can see that the ex-flagman is still in animated form as dances and signals for "Cookie" to bring it to the line. The tree has no staging lights at this point, but there are a separate set of lights just before the tree. By the next year, the staging lights were placed on top of the tree, but only a single set of lights signifying "Staged." This painting was created from an old b&w photo that I ran across somewhere, so this is really the actual scene of the event. Following is the complete story The First Christmas Tree, Indy 1963. We thought it would be nice t