25,000+ Period Racing Photos

[Chuck Miller]

Curt,
These Friedman pics are so cool and interesting it’s hurting my head….

The ‘Alan Johnson 911 1’ #272 photo is really significant historically to me. For one, I was probably at that race, but moreover one can put a timeline on the place, cars, drivers, and grid.

-Johnson was driving his No. 1 orange 911S for Richie Ginther when he still had a one car team out of Competition Motors (later that year running a second car for Milt Minter)
(Johnson earned the No. 1 by winning the C-Prod championship the year before)

-Next is Bill Young in his yellow Elan out of his own shop Bill Young’s Lotus. (when Elans were still in C-Prod, later to be in, and dominate D-Prod)

-Then it’s either Scooter Patrick or Davey Jordan in the two team Shelby Toyota 2000’s (a one season factory/Shelby effort)

-In between the two Toyota’s is Milt Minter driving Vasek’s 911S that Davey Jordan drove the year before. (later that year Milt won of the most memorable races ever at Willow agaist Scooter in the Toyota on the last lap... )


This would probably make it sometime in the early part of the 1968 season…

This was some of THE best racing EVER……..

Thank you Curt… WOW

[CurtEgerer]

Interesting background Chuck. The thing I find fascinating about the 1967/68/69 seasons is that the racing 911s were just lightly-modified production cars (save for the R and a few others), particularly in the USA. To compete and win with a production car says everything about the basic 911 design.

1968 Daytona:

Elford 907 Seat Detail

Siffert 907LH

Momo Monza Wheel

911 GT Crash

Jochen Neerspach 907

Porsche Crew

Brumos

[beh911]

The 68 set has some excellent candids in it. Speaking of the R, nice shots of chassis #15 here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenr...57632863499215

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenr...57632863499215

[CurtEgerer]

Riverside Endurance 1968:

Soft Window Targa For Sale

Don Burns Racing 911

Don Burns Racing 911 2

Don Burns Racing 911 3

Cotton Goff Inc. 911

Las Vegas SCCA National 1968:

Don Burns Paddock

'Kendon Porsche' 911

Allred Brothers 904

Don Burns at Speed

Nr. 55 B/S 911

Vasek Polak 911 - the essence of sport purpose!

Nr. 86 B/S 911

Ed Wakeley 911

Kendon Porsche Single-cab Service Truck

[Rolly]

American D spoke wheels were used on most of the 911's in the early days it seems.

Regards

Rolly who has a set of American mags on his early 911

[CurtEgerer]

Another interesting detail is many of the 911s have electrical tape across the front and rear turn-signal lenses - while it was common to use tape to secure the headlights, I had not previously noticed it here.

tape front.jpgtape rear.jpgTape 3.jpgTape 4.jpg