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- Sports cars in the fifties and sixties
New England Sports Car Racing at Thompson and Lime Rock, A Lotus Eleven Le Mans team car, an OSCA, and more....
History of Berkeley sports cars in the US
Dealer material, racing, owner stories, and obscure technical references
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What's new? March
Disturbing news involving John Fitch.... http://www.cwnicholls.net/fitch/fitch.html http://www.docrebuild.com/curr-evnt/currentevents-116.html February
Frank Cornell has provided some excellent photos of Berkeleys in the 1970's and 80's. You can find them here. Stew Rutherford was well known in SCCA circles on the east coast back in the fifties and sixties, primarily for his blazingly fast (and terrifying loud) Chevy powered Rutherford Special. I am very excited about adding many of the photos from his collection to the site, courtesy of John Rutherford who is spending untold hours converting them to digital form. Here are a first few - some shots at (I think) Westover Air Force base, some great photos from Thompson, and Mt. Washington. January
December
We recently received a collection of old negatives - well over a hundred - and have just started putting them up. This will be a slow process, since they are very old and very fragile and scanning is laborious. The first roll is up with just some placeholder captions so far, but we'll try to identify the cars & drivers before too long. Thompson, probably 1954 or 1955. Added a page in the Berkeley tech section requesting information about the inspiration for the differential design used in the Berkeley. This was prompted by an astute observation by Australian Roger Brundle. Moved the Thompson Today section to another page in the Thompson Raceway section, and added a new page containing a bunch of excellent new material from Duncan Johnson. There's more to come from yet another contributor! November
Added some interesting Frazer Nash photos to Thompson, Lime Rock, and Other courses, and also to the Help Wanted page.
Unusual and humorous has a few additions. Added temporary counters on a few pages to gauge traffic. October
It also appears that 2 of the historical societies in the Thompson area are interested in preserving the track's history, which is terrific news. August
Thanks to Steve Tosi, we have some new Thompson photos. We also have an update on the current condition of the track at the bottom of that page. Added a section on Berkeley racer Ted Jayne on this page, and added a page dedicated to the superb in-process restoration being done by Doug Jayne. Anyone remember the Lester MG? Watch this space. |
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