Gary,
Yes you are absolutely right.
Hollywood Sport Cars
At 5766 Hollywood Boulevard
I missed that. I love your attention to detail!
Seriously, and sincerely.
And what was their Healey tagline??? Around 1963???
Here is the answer - just for Gary - in a separate email.
Everyone else has to guess!!
;-)
Chris
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On 30/07/2011, at 9:56 PM, Editorgary at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/29/11 10:12:30 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
>> Chic Vandagriff passed away on Thursday, July 28th . He was very
>> instrumental
>> in bringing Vintage Racing to California and owned Hollywood
>> Sportscars in
>> the
>> day. He gave many drivers a chance at racing.
>>
>
> Chic Vandagriff was quite a man, one of the most influential car
> builders
> in the day. I had the privilege of meeting him a few years ago with
> his son
> Chris, who is still influential in his position as head of Historic
> Motor
> Sports Association, which ran the Monterey Historics and now runs the
> Motorsports Reunion sucessor.
>
> Just to correct one important detail, since it's an anomaly in a
> way, but
> marks the difference between people who know the history, and those
> that
> repeat other peoples' versions. The firm that Chic founded and ran,
> building a
> variety of project cars for Jerry Titus and others in the day, as
> well as
> prepping James Dean's Porsche 550 for the race in Salinas in 1955, was
>
> Hollywood Sport Cars.
>
> There's no S on Sport.
>
> Just so you'll know.
>
> Gary Anderson
> __________________________
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