DEL MONTE TROPHY RACE GROUP 70th Anniversary of the Pebble Beach Road Races Race 1 report Saturday 14th August 2021 Our 24 sports racing cars from 1948-1955 rolled up to the start at Laguna Seca at 10h45 on Saturday as the morning mist lifted off the top of the Corkscrew. In pole position, Rob Manson’s… Continue reading Race report Saturday 14th August 2021 – Monterey Reunion
Category: Events
Pebble Beach 70th – article in Victory Lane
Hot on the heels of the article about our Del Monte Trophy Race Group in The Wheel, here is one about us and the 70th anniversary of the Pebble Beach Road Races in Victory Lane magazine. Read page 33 on a one-page pdf at Victory Lane Vol 36 No 7 July 2021 p33 Flip through… Continue reading Pebble Beach 70th – article in Victory Lane
Article on us! 70th anniversary of the Pebble Beach Road Races
Read the terrific article about the 70th anniversary of the Pebble Beach Road Races by Gary Horstkorta in The Wheel, the journal of the SCCA. He emphasises the five cars which ran there in period and will race with us at Laguna Seca 14/15 August 2021. Click on the link below The_Wheel_July_2021
1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder
Car # 2D – 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder – white/blue Driven by Tazio Ottis of Berkeley, California Raced in the Pebble Beach Road Races in 1955 (1st P.Hill) and 1956 (1st C.Shelby) This particular Ferrari, #0510M was purchased by Texas millionaire and racing enthusiast, Allen Guiberson, in 1955. Its racing pedigree makes it… Continue reading 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder
2021 – Bulletin #2 for drivers and owners
Del Monte Trophy Race Group Bulletin Number 2, June 2021 It was a pleasure to catch up with many of you earlier this month at the CSRG Laguna Seca races. We actually had 4 Jaguar XK-120s (see the group shot of the drivers and owners below) racing together all weekend in a scrum of nearly… Continue reading 2021 – Bulletin #2 for drivers and owners
2021 Bulletin #1 for drivers and owners
Rob Manson writes: Gentlemen, As we all begin (optimistically) to plan our racing calendars for the upcoming season, Doug and I felt that it would be a good opportunity to put out this first Del Monte Trophy Race Group 2021 Bulletin. The new Season will be the 70th Anniversary of the first European-style Road Races… Continue reading 2021 Bulletin #1 for drivers and owners
News Blog 9: 2021 Covid-19, cancellations and alternative events
Message about the Monterey Motorsports Reunion from Doug Sallen and Rob Manson (2020 Bulletin 2) … Hello All, after what has truly been a long strange Spring-into-Summer which in most of our cases has facilitated some serious garage time. We likely have our 1947-1955 race cars prepared like never before – all dressed up but… Continue reading News Blog 9: 2021 Covid-19, cancellations and alternative events
Events
This page will carry information on upcoming events for Del Monte Trophy Race Group cars. Please provide information to Rob Manson and Marcus Bicknell (see Contacts page). 2017 August Rolex Monterey Historic Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, August. Triumphantly completed. 2018 August Rolex Monterey Historic Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Can’t… Continue reading Events
Rob Manson: 1953 Kurtis 500S Dodge
Frank Kurtis based the design for the 1953 Kurtis 500S sports car on his successful Kurtis 500 Indianapolis roadster chassis, widened to accommodate two people and the V8 motors available at the time. Between 20 and 30 of the cars were built in one year only, at Kurtis Kraft in Glendale, California. This Kurtis 500S… Continue reading Rob Manson: 1953 Kurtis 500S Dodge
Rob Manson: 1953 Tatum GMC Special
Charles “Chuck” Tatum was a decorated Marine Corps veteran of Iwo Jima from Stockton, California. He built the Tatum GMC Special in late 1952-early 1953 on a dare from friends Phil Hill, Sammy Weiss and Doug Trotter. Pre and Post War Ford suspension and drum brakes are mounted on a Tatum, designed and built, tube… Continue reading Rob Manson: 1953 Tatum GMC Special