William Raymond Pixley (1907 in

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– 30 August 1936 in Hammond,

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) was an American

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. Primarily a

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driver, he drove in the 1936

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for Clarence Felker in a

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that had once sported a

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but at the time was powered by a Miller four-cylinder. It would be his only

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start as he was killed in August of that year in a crash at

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.Jenkins, Richard
Ray Pixley
''Old Racing Cars'', Retrieved 2010-06-14

Indy 500 results

References

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