Del Monte Trophy reports in SCCA’s The Wheel magazine

Buddenbaum leads Tatum on lap 5… just for a while

We are delighted to have had such copious and intelligent coverage in the December issue of SCCA’s The Wheel magazine.

The weight of history in the making bears down on Blake Tatum (winner of Race 1), Skip Streets (winner of Race 2) and Rob Manson (owner of both cars). Smile for the camera then.

You know the story by now, one of the 2021 event’s father-and-son stories… the white and blue 1953 Tatum GMC Special created by Chuck Tatum was driven by one of our most eminent guests, Blake Tatum his son. Blake is a well-known racer, Editor of “The Wheel’ and Board Member of the Northern California Region of the SCCA. And he went on to win race 1 on Saturday 14th August 2021 in the Del Monte Trophy Group sports racing cars 1948-1955.

I enjoyed Blake’s “proud father” musings. Excellent and justified. And my race report, written in period, with some humor and with a quill pen between my

The late David Gentry’s sketch of the winning Tatum.

teeth bring something of the thrill of the occasion to the reader.

You can write to Blake Tatum at wheel@sfrscca.org and I’m sure he would like to hear from you (especially if it is full of praise or supplying new text and pics for his mag).