Some Real Vintage Racing

[mike cobine]

Here is the Stingray in action. Well, the picture below has it on its side, but the web page has the action.

[mike cobine]

Strange Looking Corvette

I think some guy named Jim Hall in Texas was customizing them.




More Meadowdale

[mike cobine]

I was really looking for Joe's '57

but I haven't had any luck. I thought it might show up in some vintage races before going on the street. I thought some of you might enjoy these old Corvette pictures though.




Jim Jeffords of Purple People Eater fame

[mike cobine]

Ironically the 1967 Lynndale Blue exterior color

was named for a race track that closed in 1967.




Lynndale Farms Raceway

[Rob M.]

I love them, keep them comming!!! *NM*

[Rob M.]

Re: I was really looking for Joe's '57 *NM*

[Joseph T.]

Re: I was really looking for Joe's '57

Mike

Here is one from New Smyrna Feb.57. This is the pro-am race that took place the second weekend of the '57 Daytona Speed week. Ed Cole was concerned about the factory backed thunderbirds beating the private entry Corvettes ..so he sent over the Nassau/Daytona car with Paul Goldsmith who just set the speed record on the beach.

[David Dawdy]

Re: I was really looking for Joe's '57

Joe -

Many years ago, while visiting in Casa Grande, Az - about 1961 -with the family of 'Gar' Carlson, I remember hearing that he was an engine builder for Paul Goldsmith. Does anyone know whether this might have been the case? I remember driving his early fifties Ford pick-up with a Cadillac V-8 of his and thinking it was the greatest!

[Joseph T.]

Re: I was really looking for Joe's '57

David.I am not familiar with Gar Carlson..maybe Clem will know.

When Paul Goldsmith drove my 57 at the 57 Daytona Speed week on the beach and at New Smyrna he was partners with Smokey.

He had a great career as a motorcyle racer and as racecar driver winning the national motorcycle championship 5 times then going on to win the Daytona 500 and placing 3rd at Indy etc..

He along with Richard Petty and Junior Johnson received the first Hemi engines...that tore up the tracks.

He also drove for Ray Nickels of Nickels engineering. Ray sponsored the Pontiacs.

Both Paul and Ray now in their 80's live in Griffith,Ind.

[Jerry S.]

Re: Those other SCCA race tracks.

I remember racing on a small track, behind a farmers barn, in 1964. The name might have been Greenwood farms? Anyone from Iowa remember?

[Clem Z.]

Re: I was really looking for Joe's '57

gar carlson, never heard the name as i spent all my time on the east coast tracks,malboro,the glen,nelson ledges,cumberland,dunkirk ETC

[Gordon Peterson #4961]

Re: Some Real Vintage Racing

If you follow the "Meadowdale 1959" link in the initial thread, there are some amazing pix. But did anyone else notice that Zora Arkus-Duntov is driving the Maserati in picture #8!!? Was he moonlighting back then?

Pete