{"id":14649,"date":"2025-06-14T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montana500.run\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2025-06-14T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:55:19","slug":"driver-profile-perry-ted-mathews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/driver-profile-perry-ted-mathews\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Profile: Perry &amp; Ted Mathews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Tom Canegie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perry Mathews was from Helena Mt. He was a voc-ed teacher teaching Diesel mechanics. He first raced a model T in the Montana 500 in 1969. At that time he ran in the cast iron division. In 1973 he won the cast iron&nbsp;division.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/wyte.one\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/perry-mathews.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" style=\"width:558px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Perry Mathews 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 1976 he switched over to aluminum and came in fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1980 his son Ted joined him in the endurance run. They both ran until 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 1983 the Association decided to try 11\/16&#8243; restrictor plates between the carburetor and the intake manifold on a one-year trial basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perry Mathews won that year, so when they voted to make the use of restrictor plates permanent, Perry Mathews&#8217; hand was the first one up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 1984 the sudden passing of Perry saddened us. While out hunting he suffered a fatal heart attack. Ted continued to run off and on until 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted still lives in Helena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Canegie Perry Mathews was from Helena Mt. He was a voc-ed teacher teaching Diesel mechanics. He first raced a model T in the Montana 500 in 1969. At that time he ran in the cast iron division. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivers","wpcat-111-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}