25,000+ Period Racing Photos

[CurtEgerer]

From the Benson Ford Research Center. 1959-1972.

DAVE FREIDMAN COLLECTION

[CurtEgerer]

Many more Freidman pics here. Some are the same as the Flickr photos, many are from different events:

Henry Ford Artehouse Premium Photos

[Nine17]

Browsing the 1972 Can-Am brings back the memories -- I was at the Laguna event two weeks before. John Wyer and Mike Parkes weren't in Monerey. Dave Friedman was a really terrific photographer.

Chuck, what can you tell us about this shot from that weekend?

[DAVSER]

Spectacular! Thanks Curt!

[Chuck Miller]

Chuck, what can you tell us about this shot from that weekend?

Whoa..........
Well, that was the 2.5 TransAm car I crewed for the two 'local' races in 1972.... and pretty much the end of the late Charlie Thieriot's, and that GTA's TransAm career.

The race before was Laguna Seca (the pictures I posted before) where Charlie crashed the car in the Sat. practice. We worked all night to get it ready for the Sunday race where he finished 12th. Two weeks later, on Oct. 28, we were at Riverside Raceway for the last race of the season. Charlie said that a breather hose come off of the top of the trans and spewed gear oil on the floor, when he went for the brakes for turn 6 his foot slipped off the pedal and he hit HARD!!!!

The hand lettering (Thieriot Racing) on the rear quarters was done by me...
The funny thing is that Santo and Anthony Rimicci (of Santo's Alfa Repair) has kept that very rear quarter I lettered all those years ago...when they showed it to me I couldn't believe my eyes....
They also own and race Charlie's old right hand 'street GTA' and painted the quarters the same way in tribute to Charlie........

......... and so it goes

[CurtEgerer]

There's some real good stuff if you dig hard, particularly at the 'Artehouse' site - although it's very difficult to navigate around. I found an entire series of photos inside Penske HQ showing the IROC cars being prepped, Donohue's office, etc.

[Nine17]

The hand lettering (Thieriot Racing) on the rear quarters was done by me...
The funny thing is that Santo and Anthony Rimicci (of Santo's Alfa Repair) has kept that very rear quarter I lettered all those years ago...when they showed it to me I couldn't believe my eyes....
They also own and race Charlie's old right hand 'street GTA' and painted the quarters the same way in tribute to Charlie........

......... and so it goes

I didn't have a chance to post when I read this -- that GTA rear clip is just such a time-traveller. So cool. I can remember doodling a tri-colore GTA on my Pee-Chee folder after the Laguna race weekend.

Funny, but back then I aspired to a GTV cloned into a GTA -- because I figured that there was NO WAY that I could ever afford a Porsche 911. Now I've got a budget 911 with a good parts supply and an excellent wrench looking after it, and as for a GTA (or even a GTA clone)... As the New Jersey-ites say: Fuh-geddaboudit.

--David

[CurtEgerer]

Some good ones from the 162 pics from the 1968 SCCA Nationals (Willow Springs).

Porsche Competition Department Transporter 1

Porsche Competition Department Transporter 2

Porsche Competition Department Transporter 3

Vasek Polak 911 CP Nr 11

Vasek Polak 904 Milt Minter

Otto Zipper 904

911 Sportomatic

Alan Johnson

[CurtEgerer]

456 pics from the 1968 SCCA race at Riverside:

Alan Johnson 911 1

Alan Johnson 911 2

911 Nr 21 Pitstop

Adamowicz 911 Pitstop

Watkins Glen 1973:

Brumos Nr 58 CanAm 911 Langheck

Brumos Nr 58 CanAm 911LH 2

[CurtEgerer]

From a set of 854 'Grab Bag' pics:

Donohue IROC Penske HQ 1

Donohue IROC Penske HQ 2

Donohue's Office

Donohue's Office 2

MidOhio 1967:

Holbert's Garages Inc. 911

Fred Opert 911

TransAm 911 with Sunroof