I know that I posted this picture many years ago, but it's worth bringing back. Comments please.

Looks like it was one hell of a crash at the base of the scaffold.

They were banned at Indy after one collapsed and killed several people in 1960. The way I understand it, overnight rains made the ground wet and soft. When the field went by on the initial parade lap, everyone on top of the scaffolding went to one side to get a better look and the whole thing went down from all the weight shifted to one side. There's pictures out there if you want to look for them. Jim Rathmann won. My dad was there. He didn't know about the tragedy until well after the race ended. I still have the Indy Star newspaper he bought after the race.

The Indy scaffold was anchored to a pickup truck.

Great shot Lenny!  First thought is, was alcohol involved in the design/constrtuction process? I put my money on "yes".  Second thought was my Mom and I were always lucky to be invited to see the Langhorne modified races from Stubby Stevens "huge" dump truck.  Not as high the boys in the pic but a lot safer.  Scott Ely

One year we had multiple spotters for stewie, and we stuck Jeff Strunk up there. Lol.