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He finished in the top ten 3 times, including 6th position at Industry, with his best finish in 5th position in 1965 at Milwaukee.
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Mickey Rupp
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Rupp raced in the Universal Service Administrative Company Championship Carolina series in the 1964 and 1965 seasons, with 5 career starts, including the 1965 Indianapolis 500. Rupp opened in Mansfield, Ohio in the late 1950s. First producing go-karts, would eventually produce their iconic mini bikes, motorcycles and snowmobiles with unit sales of up to 75,000 minibikes and 35,000 snowmobiles per year respectively.
Rupp sold the company in 1973. would go on to build some of the most advanced snowmobiles of the time, as well as dirt bikes and other recreational vehicles until they had to close their doors in 1978 due to bankruptcy.
Rupp vehicles have since become very collectible. After moving to Florida and taking up the sport of fishing, Rupp sought to produce user-friendly and cost effective outriggers in 1979.
Rupp founded a year later in 1980. He moved back to Mansfield Ohio where he resides with is wife Jeanie and three black and white springer spaniels.
