Coldplugs - Other tracks in the Northeast

I'd like to improve this section - anyone with photos of sports car events in New England during the postwar period (to 1965) who would like to become famous by showing them here, please contact me.


I'll go out on a limb here and say that this was taken at Westover Air Force base near Springfield MA in June of 1954. Stew Rutherford's #36 Allard is on the front row with what I think is Lou Fageol's twin engined Porsche special. This may have been the first race in which the Porsche ran with superchargers that were powered by chain saw engines. With the blowers, the car ran in C-Modified as it appears here. Can anyone confirm that this is Westover? Courtesy of John Rutherford	This car appears to be another Lou Fageol effort. Lou owned the Twin-Coach bus manufacturer that his father had started and was best known for his unlimited class hydroplane boats. Courtesy of John Rutherford

Beverly, MA in July of 1955. Ray Saidel chases a T-Bird in his Allard J2X LeMans. What were the rules regarding roll bars in 1955? [Alex Saidel]	Taken at the Glen, probably in 1955. George Weaver in "Poison Lil", his 1936 Maserati. George won the ARCA driver's championship in 1939. George was one of the founding fathers of the ARCA's replacement, the SCCA. He helped organize the SCCA's first speed event in Thompson in 1945and in 1952 he designed and built Thompson Raceway. [Alex Saidel. Also, thanks to Michael G.]

Floyd Stone's Lotus 7A at Mt. Equinox Picture courtesy of Jim Shellington.	An Ace Bristol owned by Ronnie Stanwicks at the Mt. Washington hillclimb. Ronnie was born on halloween, hence the witch on the broom. Picture courtesy of Jim Shellington.

"I had one of my runs up the hill messed up by a doe that refused to yield the road to me. The exhaust noise didn't bother her at all, but when I blew the Lotus horn at her (a noise that almost couldn't be heard) she took off like a shot. Unfortunately, that run was no good, because in a hill climb, once you loose speed, it is almost impossible to make it back up." - Jim Shellington Picture courtesy of Jim Shellington. Taken at Mt. Equinox in 1963.	A nice shot of Jack Brabham and John Cooper. This was taken at the Glen in mid 1961 at a Formula Libre race. Photo by Fernando Molina

Frank Twaits' Frazer Nash at Bridgehampton. Summer of '58 or '59. [Courtesy of James Trigwell]	Awesome shot! Carroll Shelby at Mt. Washington. [Stewart Rutherford collection]