You might enjoy Bill Pollack's book "Red Wheels and White Sidewalls:
Confessions of an Allard Racer". He talks about that race among many
others.
On 5/31/2012 11:38 PM, vintage.racer@comcast.net wrote:
> Yesterday as part of the annual Sonma Historic Motorsports Reunion at
> Infineon Raceway (actually, as of today Infineon's naming rights expired so
> it is now Sonoma Raceway), the track held a press conference celebrating the
> 60th anniversary of the races in Golden Gate Park. Present were three local
> ex-drivers who participated in those races and three of the original cars
> that were driven in the races - an ex-Phil Hill Aston Martin DB2, a 1950
> Jaguar Parkinson Special and the Mercury flathead powered Baldwin Special.
> Amazing to see the drivers (all in their early 80s) and the three cars
> together. It was a kick to watch the ex-drivers all bench racing about the
> old days.
>
> This Saturday at the track they will have a seminar with the 1952 race
> winner, Bill Pollack (event Grand Marshall) plus five of the ex-drivers that
> raced in the Park. The event is receiving local TV, newspaper and as you've
> seen, Internet coverage.
>
> Gary Horstkorta
> Archivist - SF Region/SCCa
> 1962 TR4
> 1969 TR6
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clark W. Nicholls"<cwnfot@gmail.com>
> To: Catpusher@aol.com, fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:41:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Racing In Golden Gate Park
>
> Is this it, Hardy?
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/27/BAIJ1OM33L.DTL
> Another...
> http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/articles/driver-returns-to-days-of-glor
> y
>
> Clark
> Clark W. Nicholls
> 1972 Stag (LE7931E), 1974 Spitfire (FM14571U)
> and 1 rusty GT6 needing new owner
> "Reality, it's not what you think."
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