A great source for old magazine is Bruce Perry's Yellow Dog Garage (he is always
at Carlisle and Hershey. Sports Car Graphic was the best magazine for race
coverage (at least US coverage) in the sixties and seventies. Jerry Titus was
the editor and I need not say more...he was terrific. My first photo job was
with SCG for then editor Bob Kovacik, and I shot the ARRC at Daytona in
1969....I
think it was 1969....may have been 1967....when you get this age, the races and
dates run together. I'll try to get Bruce's number for you should youn wish to
order up some back copies of SCG or Sports Car. Bill
EISANDIEGO@aol.com wrote:
> Mike
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> I have been gradually accumulating old Sport Car issues at various
> events. I rarely see issues of Sports Car Graphic, old Autoweeks and not
> familiar with the other publication. Do you know of anyone who sells complete
> sets?
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> Mike, your explanation was very helpful. Do I understand that prior to
> 1964 that there were simply regional/divisional championships? Do you know
> when that started? Would these too be covered in the magazines?
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> I did receive a couple other direct e-mails about this era of SCCA racing
> from other FOT members. Their recollections differed slightly from yours with
> respect to the early races. I may be the only one who is interested and
> uninformed, so I am going to limit future question about this era. I looking
> for a good book on this time period, any recommendations?
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> I was at Pebble Beach over the weekend. As I watched the judging, I began
> to wonder if the very gray haired judges (as opposed to my partially gray and
> well thinned hair) had any replacements in training. I also wondered what
> would happen to the cars. Then I began to wonder about the fate of the
> Triumph race cars whose history is being obscured by the focus on the more
> elite brands and well publicized racers.
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> Books such as what you have written help preserve that history. However,
> I think there is a need to go further to document the past racing so that it
> is readily available for others to appreciate. Frankly, until I began going
> through old Sport Car magazine looking for the history of the Lorincz
> Spitfire, I never fully appreciated how prevalent and successful the Triumphs
> have been in US racing.
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> It has been interesting of late that there has considerable chat about
> some of the old race cars and former racers. I have learned a lot from those
> chats. Maybe I am the only one. But I want to let the rest of you know that I
> do enjoy the exchange of information. Thank You.
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> I certainly did not mean to criticize any one of the authors on the FOT
> list by my previous comments. I know that the investment of effort in writing
> books is seldom properly compensated. I was suggesting more that we
> collectively should do something to more extensively document past history.
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> Respectfully yours, Cary
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