Life
Scott was born in the small town of Oconto, Wisconsin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. His father, George, was a lumberjack. His family moved to Milwaukee in southern Wisconsin at the age of five. Landy’s dream of becoming a race driver began as a member of Wally Zale's pit crew. The Japanese had other plans and on December 7, 1942, they attacked of Pearl Harbor. Days later, Landy was a soldier in the United States Army. After the World War II, Landy took his military mustering out pay and bought his first Midget race car. Landy, a virtual unknown competed against the nation's greatest racing stars of the 1940s and 1950s. Landy drove his #17 midget racer, powered by an unconventional Studebaker engine, on a shoestring budget to victories on oval dirt tracks everywhere.
Over a two-year span (1947–1948) Landy won an incredible twenty feature races, with fourteen second place finishes and twelve thirds. Landy also won 33 heat races and semi-features. All totaled, Landy had 151 top 3 finishes over that two-year period.
Landy's career highlight was winning the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association's (BMARA) 1947 Championship and eventually becoming the president of BMARA.
Today Landy resides in Las Vegas, Nevada enjoying retirement.
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