Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Pebble Beach Road Races with another extraordinary photo from the Pebble beach Company, whom we thank. Here is Tom Carsten’s #14 Allard J2 Cadillac driven by Bill Pollack who finished 3rd overall in the Unlimited race, that’s Sports cars over 1500 cc in the 1953 SCCA National Sports Car… Continue reading Bill Pollack 1953
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Lime Rock 2025
The full results of the East v. West races on the Labor Day weekend 2025 are available at… https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8487152 Group 3 Practise 1https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8487304 Group 3 Practise 2https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8488802 Group 3 Race 1https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8489500 Group 3 Race 2https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8493932 Group 3 Race 3https://www.race-monitor.com/Results/Session/8494040 Group 3 Race 4 There is a compelling write-up of the whole race meeting by Kobus… Continue reading Lime Rock 2025
Where’s Wally?
The man who made the Manning One of the most characterful, pugnacious and hot-roddy of Rob Manson’s various California Road Race Specials is the 1952 Schaghticoke Streets Manning flat-head V8 Special. The origins of Rob’s example have been but a footnote in the otherwise copious documentation… “The third Manning Special was built in about 1955… Continue reading Where’s Wally?
A Manning photo identified
Our research into the history of the Schaghticoke Streets Manning Special has helped Rob Manson identify an iconic photo of the car in race conditions which he has had for many years… but whose date and location were not known. There is every evidence that photo was taken at the Tuppence Races near Montreal on… Continue reading A Manning photo identified