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Welcome
And thank you for stopping by - Watson Racing Team - Home to Mike Scrivani's 1983 Championship winning Edmunds Midget. WRT is one of 4 sites which together form Team Watson Online.

Other other 3 sites focus on our 1933 Crack'n Riley Special Sprint Car or Micro Sprint Racing Team & our side business - High Performance Design. If you arrived at our site from a site other than www.teamwatsononline, I invite you to stop by our main "Portal" and see all we have to offer.


Brian W. at NHIS (Vintage Celebration) 2005


Introduction
This web site had been assembled to chronicle the rebirth of a Champion. The featured 1983 Edmunds Midget was built and campaigned by "Iron" Mike Scrivani and driven to the 1983 ARDC Championship as car #1 by Nick Fornoro Jr.

WRT took possession of the car April 7, 2002 after it had sat in a garage for approx. 13 years. WRT restored the car back to how it was in 1983 when it won the Championship (with some slight updating to increase safety & performance). One day when we are no longer running the car hard we will remove the updating and return the car to a true 1983 era car.

The car is currently being campaigned on both asphalt as well as dirt. See you at the track.

(Click here to read an interesting story about how we learned of the car and came to purchase it the next morning).

 





Special Request
We need your help! Please help us to gather all possible existing Historical Information about the midget featured on this web page. We are hoping to piece together an extensive year by year archive. No piece of information is ever too small. We are looking for Photos, Technical Details, Set-up Info, Old Parts, Movies of the Car, Former Owners, Former Drivers, Dates & Places of Wins, etc. Please contribute - my Email is: brianwatson@watsonracingteam.com. Thank You.



Thank You
Family, Friends, Colleagues, Sponsors, etc. who have made this possible. All your help and dedication is infinitely appreciated.

 


An Annual Must Attend Event - Check It Out!





- Now Available !!! - Quality Reproduced "American Racing Drivers Club" (ARDC) Decal

Reproduced Decal (click to enlarge)

Original Decal (click to enlarge)


You just have to see this decal in person. My decal vendor has outdone herself. This decal is an exact replica of the original. And this is not applied by soaking it in water like the original, this decal is high quality vinyl with a outdoor life of 5 - 7 years. Every vintage ARDC car should be carrying one of these decals. I am selling these at cost, $15.00 + shipping. I have personally paid the artwork fee already, all you need to pay for is the generation of the decal. We will make several at a time as soon as enough orders come in to justify. These are custom made. We will not be making 50 or 100 upfront.

To inquire further about the decal, please email me, Brian Watson at brianwatson@watsonracingteam.com

My plan is to carry a sample with me to events so you can see it in person. FYI - the decal is not square, it is oval just like the original!

EARLIER ARDC DECAL COMING SOON...
 

Also available - Quality Reproduced "Autocraft" Decal


Attention Vintage Race Car Restorers - If you are currently restoring or have restored a midget with an Autocraft power plant and are missing the well known decal which adorned the air cleaner mud deflectors - your search is over. This unavailable decal is NOW AVAILABLE!

This decal has been professionally recreated on our cutting edge computers then professionally printed. Due to the unknown market for this decal, orders to the printer are on a per request basis. We do not make any money on this - this is simply being offered as a service to assist is making your restoration project as period correct as we hope ours will be.

Technical Information From Printer: "The decals are outdoor durable, UV resistant and clear-coatable (if desired). The black used is a standard black and will be "resin printed" on a white 5-7 year vinyl (adhesive backed). I have the ability to perfectly reproduce decals in multi-color and use shiny gold and silvers as a decal might require."

To inquire further about the decal, please email Brian Watson at brianwatson@watsonracingteam.com



Check out our (continuously growing) Vintage Racing "Online" Library (CLICK HERE )

The search for information to help with our restoration has left us with a growing amount of: Books, Magazines, Decals, Brochures, Manuals, Blueprints, etc. that we want to share with others to help them with their midget restoration project. This is a continuously growing section so check back often.

Contributions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

TONS of ARDC Memorabilia!!!