On The Record
TOM SIPPEL TALKS MODIFIED RACING IN THE ’60S & ’70S
Posted on: Monday March 1, 2021
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin’s Tom Sippel at speed in the late 1960s. (photo courtesy of J.A. Ule)
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin’s Tom Sippel recalls the days of building your modifieds nearly entirely from parts scavenged from the junkyard. “Tom Cat” goes back and chats about his days racing at Plymouth, Chilton and Slinger when it was still dirt back in the day. Listen in!