[jjbrouwer]

Great days.

Were you old enough to remember 1965 when Scotland's Formula One champion Jim Clark shocked everyone to win the Indy 500 in his tiny Lotus-Ford?

Sadly, he's no longer with us, but truly one of the greatest motor racing drivers of all time.

[JRjr]

Grew up "watching" the race on radio in the 40's. Still get chils down my spine when I remember them taking the winner around the last lap. Don't remember all the names, but Howdy Holmes was always reporting from the back stretch.

[blackie]

Jim Clark was the best!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm old enough to remember the day Eddie Sachs died on lap 2 when Dave MacDonald crashed his Ford Thompson.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The 1967 race was the first one I was old enough to really remember. but we had a matchbox toy version of the Jim Clark green car. I do remember when he died in the crash in Germany

When I was a kid, we had some cousins that always made the trip to Indy for the 500 and every year at Christmas a big thing was for them to show their home movies of the race. It's not as big as it was in past days, but in its time the 500 was THE race in a way nothing in NASCAR has ever approached.