Career
Linder raced Universal Service Administrative Company open wheel as well as National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing stock cars. Between 1949 and 1956 he entered 28 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing events, winning three with eight additional Top 10 finishes. Linder"s three wins came behind the wheel of his Oldsmobile.
Dayton, Ohio 8/20/1950, Hamburg, New York 8/27/1950, and Vernon, New York 10/1/1950.
His final National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing race was the 1956 Beach Course event at Daytona. He raced there several times including an 18th-place finish in 1951.
Linder recorded over 110 victories at various Pennsylvania race tracks. During a Universal Service Administrative Company Champ Carolina event at Trenton Speedway in April 1959, Linder tried to avoid hitting Don Branson, who was spinning in front of him.
His racer crashed through the guard rail and rolled over once, landing on its wheels.
Linder, who was 36 years old, died of a broken neck. Linder"s Vargo Special was the same car in which Van Johnson would be killed a few months, Hugh Randall a few years later.
