Steve,
I was on the Triumph racing list and got all their press releases and some
nice photos with them during much of the sixties. I had a nice TR3 from 1965
to '74, sold when I got my first Elan. I'll have to dig out some of the
photos for you to copy, since much of Tr's success was with Gr 44.
Roger
>From: "Steve Benford Jr." <sbracing@execpc.com>
>Reply-To: "Steve Benford Jr." <sbracing@execpc.com>
>To: JXLmail@aol.com
>CC: healeys@autox.team.net, vintage-race@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Experiences racing at Marlboro Maryland in the 60s
>Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:31:26 -0500
>
>It certainly is nice to hear everyone talking about Marlboro, and
>Cumberland as
>well. I have a bunch of great memoirs of the racing, drivers and workers
>at
>both places. Yenko in the Stinger, Dr. Dick in the Vette, Randy Canfield
>in a
>Sprite, Tullius in anything #44 and white, Tony Adamowicz in a Ford Cortina
>and
>a Spitfire, Sharp in a Datsun, and on and on.....
>
>I also was one of those kids running around the outside of track and up &
>down
>the grandstands. My favorite spots were down by the boot and the top of
>uncovered grandstands. My Dad was the track announcer during the mid
>sixties
>and I got to see some great racing from high atop the grandstands as well.
>A 12
>hour and a white Dodge Dart come to mind. He also went through drivers
>school
>in a Spitfire in 1965. I also have his 1965 Lavender Hill Mob Pit Stop
>membership card!
>
>Any Group 44 car and driver were my heroes and they still are. Which is
>why I
>am prepping a '62 TR4 for vintage racing. I have a picture of Brian
>Fuerstenau
>in a TR4 which I am going to use a templet for painting my car - complete
>with
>Brian's name on the side.
>
>I only got to go to Cumberland once but do remember Donna Mae Mines and her
>pink
>TR3. I also remember not being able to see much of the track.
>
>It was nice to read about everyone else's memoirs - Thanks.
>
>Thumbs Up.
>Steve.
>
>
>
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