Myron Stevens

Myron Stevens
Nationality	American
Born	(1901-02-17)17 February 1901 Los Angeles, California, United States
Died	2 July 1988(1988-07-02) (aged 87) Sun City West, Arizona, United States

Myron Stevens (17 February 1901 Los Angeles, California – 2 July 1988 Sun City West, Arizona) was an American racecar driver, but achieved more fame as a racecar builder. Stevens started working for Harry A. Miller in 1922, building bodies, frames and fuel tanks for Miller race cars. In 1927, Frank S. 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 Indy 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 Indy^[3]

Career awards[]

• 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.

Indy 500 results^[4][]

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