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Myron Stevens

Myron George Stevens (February 17, 1901 – July 2, 1988) was an American racing driver and constructor.

Career[edit]

Stevens started working for Harry A. Miller in 1922, building bodies, frames and fuel tanks for Miller race cars. In 1927, Frank 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.^[1]

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.^[2] In 1930, the second through sixth-place finishers at the Indianapolis 500 all had Stevens chassis. He built cars for Indianapolis stars such as Louis Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Peter DePaolo, Chet Gardner, Rex Mays and others. In 1955, one of his cars took pole position at Indianapolis.^[3]

Awards and honors[edit]

• He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993.
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame inducted Stevens into its ranks in 1993.

Motorsports career results[edit]

Indianapolis 500 results^[4][edit]

World Drivers' Championship Indianapolis 500 results as a car builder[edit]

The Indianapolis 500 was a round of the World Drivers' Championship from 1950to1960. During that period, Stevens cars' achieved the following results:

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