indy500 1967/1968

[sam tyler]

Hi there great minds of ten-tenths,
I hope you can help me.i recently inherited some slides etc that my father in law took at the 67 and 68 indy 500.
Thing is ,it was during a previous marriage and he wouldn't talk about it so no ones knows for sure what occured.
I'm just wondering how difficult would it have been (and expensive) to go to these races meets? And how difficult would it have been for him to get onto the start line to take pictures (which he did) i havent got the slides transferred onto CD yet,but i hope to be able to post up pics soon.it also appears he had a pit pass! i would have thought that they would have only been for team personnel and VIPS.could a everyday joe get hold of these.
sorry to pose so many questions in one go but i am now immensly intriuged by my own little mystery.