Month: October 2019

#26 in our series of cars and drivers in the Del Monte Trophy race group… This splendid Allard was purchased by Australian Joe Calleja in about 2018 and driven to victory in the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – 1947-1955 Sports Racing & GT Cars group – by John Bowe, also Australian. We turn to… Continue reading Joe Calleja – 1953 Allard-Cadillac J2X

Race No.22 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, 19-20 August 2017 at Laguna Seca. The Del Monte Trophy Race Group for cars, group 5A, and the spirit of Pebble Beach. Sports racing cars and production racing cars 1947-1955… the cars and drivers: No.24 in the series About Jeff’s Mille Miglia car… a 1954 Pinin Farina S I… Continue reading Jeff Abramson: 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider

Grady LaKamp, ex-Jon LeCarner, 1951 Allard K2 Cadillac – Race No.51 or 47, probably 88 in the future Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, annually at Laguna Seca. The Del Monte Trophy Race Group for cars in the spirit of the Pebble Beach Road Races. Sports racing cars and production racing cars 1947-1955. This Allard is No.23… Continue reading Grady LaKamp: 1951 Allard K2 Cadillac

Peter Giddings – 1954 Lancia D24 Spider – Car No.24 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, 19-20 August 2017 at Laguna Seca. The Del Monte Trophy Race Group for cars, group 5A, and the spirit of Pebble Beach. Sports racing cars and production racing cars 1947-1955… the cars and drivers: No.33 in the series Vincenzo Lancia (1881-1937)… Continue reading Peter Giddings – 1954 Lancia D24 Spider

Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca. The Del Monte Trophy Race Group for cars, group 5A, and the spirit of Pebble Beach. Sports racing cars and production racing cars 1947-1955… the cars and drivers: No.22 in the series The Shannon- Crosley Special was designed and built by Mr. Floyd Shannon during 1954 and 1955… Continue reading Leland Osborn: 1955 Shannon-Crosley Special, car #172 or 72

Sydney Allard’s family had contracts with the US Military (despite being built from 1945 in Clapham, South London, in the UK) and ended up with lots of surplus Ford parts after the war. Sydney loved competing in hill climbs and when the car he built for himself began to have success, people asked him to… Continue reading John Mote – Allard K2 prototype