Obscure 500 entrant, Eddie Miller, update

[happyscrappy-t]

Saw this on FB on a group for a long closed Denver racetrack:

I retired and moved from North Denver to San Carlos, Mexico...I recently met a guy named Fast Eddie Miller. He lives on a sailboat in the San Carlos Bay. He told me he raced at Lakeside, but his claim to fame is a crazy crash at the Indy 500 in 1976. Anyone remember Fast Eddie Miller? Here's the crash
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6...DOD7V8OVAgj9f8

This would have been before my time, but growing up in the Colorado racing world in the 80's and 90's I had never heard of Eddie Miller, and though I've seen the crash video before, I had no idea he was from Colorado.

[senorsoupe]

I remember the name from this video, at 1:55 Eddie Miller is mentioned along with the caption of "I'll be back next year"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzObdx16Tq8

[WIBCRacing]

It’s too bad that Mike Thomsen is no longer a member, he talked to Eddie Miller on the phone for about 30 minutes last year, It’s really a cool story about what happened to bring the two of them together to talk. And he talked to Eddie Miller about his career and why it ended. It’s a worthwhile story.

He was going to tell the story on TOGA one night last year but the show was running over and never got to it.

[Stick500]

If his crash would have happened on race day he probably would have pegged a few photographers on his trip towards the tree.

[tmorris]

The crazy thing is that in Champ Car Stats --- Miller entered only 1 race in his career --- the 1976 Indy 500. His history as a driver says "1976 Indy 500 -- DNQ crashed in practice"
That's it! "Thanks for coming Eddie."