BMC brought 4 twin cam roadsters with hard tops. 3 raced and one was labeled P. The #38 was the British driven car of Colin Escort and Ted Lund.
This is the Canadian car driven by fred Hayes and Ed Leavans. This car was 24th overall. Most important it was later owned and raced by BARC founder Dave Nicholas who won FP in the 1968 Watkins Glen 100. The car now lives in Germany with Stephen
This car with the white stripe was the American driven entry of Dan Flaherty and Jim Parkinson. This car was owned by barc member John Wright and it is exactly as it was at Sebring - unrestored and wonderful.
To not wear out the mechanics of the twin cams, MG brought a sister P car. The lore has it that the car was being taken to Cuba, the boat sank and it now sits at the bottom of the Caribbean.
Eells Kelley’s haunting portrait of American racing legend Masten Gregory, the Kansas Flash. Gregory was a hero of Jim Clark, Carroll Shelby and Joe Tierno. Tierno liked him because he was one of the only really quick drivers to wear glasses.
Augie Pabst finished 4th overall in the Ed Hugus 250GT Berlinetta #10. Pabst was not only an exceptional driver but a prankster of the first order. Noted for parking his rental car in a motel swimming pool and simply walking away.
Swede Joachim Bonnier (black shirt) holds a drawing presented to him by Johnny Cuevas a wealthy Cuban whose family were Sugar barons.
Walt Hansgen (back to camera) talks things over with Pete Lovely (cowboy hat). Ed Crawford to the left in the black shirt.
Pedro Rodriguez (goggles) with Zora Duntov (dark glasses) and Carroll Shelby chat before the start.
Dave Causey sits in his birdcage Maserati warming it up before the start.
Chuck Dietrich, barc member, does his best impression of Maynard J Krebs alongside his very fast racing wife Suzie.
Carroll Shelby in his chicken farmer coveralls had an unevenfrul weekend driving with Masten Gregory in a Camoradi Maserati. The car lasted 3 laps.
John Fitch (white coveralls) and Briggs Cunningham are surrounded an hour before the race. Fitch and Cunningham would drive a Corvette oddly entered by Jaguar cars of New York. Fitch rolled the Corvette when a hub broke.
Belgian ace Olivier Gendebien listens to Ollie Schmidt. We nicknamed Gendebien Jellybeans to mimic the pronunciation in French. Jellybeans won in the Porsche and twice other with Phil Hill in Ferrari’s and go on to win Le Mans 4 times.
Great Italian Georgio Scarlatti drove the Scuderia Serenissima Ferrari California to 8th overall with Carlo Abate.
Stirling Moss has a chat with Geoff Healey, son of Austin Healey founder Donald.
A young Dan Gurney. Already part-timer at Ferrari he co-drove with Moss and led much of the day. Dan Gurney was a giant of motor racing and we were privileged to see him many times.
I think its Jim Jeffords but the Corvette experts say no. We can’t see the number so this driver needs to be identified by a reader.
Fast Fred Windridige next to the Corvette he shared with Dick Thompson. This was a sister car of Fitch and Cunningham and fared no better blowing its motor at lap 41.
Ricardo Rodriguez speaks Italian to one of the Ferrari mechanics who is taking care of his OSCA Formula Junior.
Ricardo and Stirling Moss on the start grid. Moss started equally as young as the Rodriguez brothers. Was he passing on his knowledge?
Pedro sits on the pit wall, his Mom in the polka dot slacks attended the brothers races religiously.
Phil Forno sits and warms up one of Cunninghams Stanguellini’s.
J Ward Allen, a funeral home director from Endicott came to race the Jim Forno and Ike Williamson Morgan but the car broke before Ward could get in.
Paul Richards won the Sebring 3 hour race.- in a Fiat Abarth. Not even Stirling Moss in a factory Sprite could catch Richards.
Phil Hill arrives. Besides being an F1 world champion, many time Le Mans & Sebring winner Hill was an avid and excellent photographer.
One of the famous Sebring High School cheerleaders.
BARC on its way to Sebring. Dave Nicholas (hat and shades) Dave Zych (middle) and our patron Spankey Smith and his MG Magnette. Easy to see why we are smiling - look at the snow across the street.
Map of the original Sebring course.
The cover of the 1960 Sebring program.
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