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Monterey Historics, 2001
My brother Rick and I spent Saturday, August 18, at Laguna Seca at the
Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races. I took a few pictures with
the digital camera which are shown here and quite a few more black
& that were taken with the Leica. Here is
the first group of those, also of the Bentley Le Mans car.
I used two cameras on this trip. The color pictures are from my
digital camera. The black and white
are from an old Leica 35mm that was purchased a few weeks before this
event occurred. I only had the 50mm lens at that time.
Here were the pictures taken at the
2000 Monterey Historic Races.
Bentley
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Bentley was the featured mark this year. Back in the
20s and 30s the 'Bentley Boys' raced big green blown open cars at Le
Mans and won that race 5 times in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 (taking
first, second, third, and fourth), and 1930.
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2001 Bentley Le Mans Car
Bentley returns to racing with this car at the 2001 24 hour race at Le
Mans, France.
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This year they took 3rd place behind the winning two
Audi R8s, an unexpected and remarkable feat until you remember that
Volkswagen owns both Bentley and Audi and used the same engine for
both efforts.
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This is that car. It does not look much like your
normal transportation to the grocery store.
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Porsches
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Porsche 904 #60
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Carrera Engine in 904
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Porsche 917s placed 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the 1971 24
hour Le Mans race.
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Eduardo Baptista's 1958 RSK from Mexico.
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1958 Porsche RSK spyder 718.005.
May have been the most successful spyder ever raced. It produced the
first podium finish at Le Mans (3rd place in 1958) driven by Jean
Behra and Hans Herman. It won the 1501-2000cc class with its 1587 cc
engine. It contributed to the '58 and '59 hill climb championships.
It was the overall winner of the '59 Targa Florio. It was 5th overall
and 2nd in class at the '59 Sebring 12 hour race.
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Porsche RSK with Carrera Engine. The engine is 1.6
liters and produces 160 HP at 7800 RPM.
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Carrera Engine has twin distributor, double overhead
cams and Weber carburetors.
Even with a podium finish in '58, the RSK did not do that well at Le
Mans. There was a DNF in '57, out with an accident. '58 was the best
year with 3rd and 4th and two class wins. The 4th place car was driven
by Edgar Barth and Paul Frere. A 3rd car did not finish.
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'59 had 6 entries and none of them finished the race.
The highest factory finish was 23rd with two privateers placing 20th
and 21th, but both of these retired with engine problems.
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Engine of Porsche 904-6
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Dean Watts Porsche 356 Abarth - Carrera engine.
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Dan Baker's 1960 RS-60, front view.
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This car took 5th place in group 3B on Saturday.
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Chasis number 054. Hood View
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Other Items that Caught Our Eye
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Austin based track car
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Early Ford
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Changing gears
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BMW R60 Sidecar
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Lots of small tubing says this is a Masserati.
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Masserati
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Ford GT40
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Ford GT40
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The 'Cobra Flip-Top' CSX 2196 currently owned by Rick
and Shar Mason. This race car was designed and build by Ken Miles for
one race. Its mission was to demolish the Corvette Grand Sports at
Nassau in December 1964.
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Cobra Interior View. It was built with a stripped and
lightened body made of thin guage aluminum. It was nick-named 'The
Flip Top' or 'The Super Snake' and featured a special aluminum Ford
experimental NASCAR 390 CI engine putting out 500 HP in a 1600 pound
car.
It was entered in the Tourist Trophy Race and the dream came true for
Shelby since 2 of the 5 Corvette Grand Sports were also entered. By
the end of lap 2 the car was 1/2 mile ahead, proving the point.
When the car was returned to Shelby America, it was rebuilt and used
as a prototype test car for the 427 engine.
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These cars were among several in front of 2
semi-trailer trucks with Griot's Garage.
This company sends out a very nice catalog of 'products for your
garage' including tools, car care products, car covers and many other
items.
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This 1966 Volvo P1800S has 1,969,450 miles on it,
driven almost daily since purchased new.
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