Career
He was not related to fellow driver Louis Meyer. Oldest Driver in major races. Raced in at least 11 Indianapolis 500 mile races.
1928 - One of STUDEBAKER team that drove stock STUDEBAKERS 30,000 miles in 26,326 minutes at Atlantic City Speedway.
1932 - Drove a semi-stock STUDEBAKER into sixth place with average of 98.4 miles per hour. 1933 - Drive a semi-stock STUDEBAKER into ninth place with average of 98.8 miles per hour.
1936 - Drove a STUDEBAKER powered front drive into ninth place with average of 101.3 miles per hour. Averaged over 14 miles per gallon at that killing pace.
Used only 2 quarts of oil.
Started three times in STUDEBAKERS and finished in the money all three times. Twentyone members. To become a member, one must drive 500 miles without relief and average better than 100 miles per hour. Only man ever to start an automobile 10,00 feet above ground.