Way back in the day

I felt this belonged here, my dad shot this one at the old Ramona Raceway early 60's... check out the guy in the silver space suit...Gotta Name?

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Deano,
My dad was serious about photography had many different types of equipment, darkroom, enlargers, projectors things I had no knowledge of, what he didn't have a few of his many photography club members did, they were all so serious about their hobby. as a young boy I spent many many hours at their meetings and photo shoot trips, some with nude models.... man I sure hated that :grinwink:. At the time I didn't realize the value of their combined talents and regret that I didn't use their experience to improve mine. The main benefit of his interest in photography is very appearant today as he left behind life long clear and precise photo documentation in thousands of photographs of our extended families and the countless functions that are usually left only as past and foggy memories, I am in awe of such foresight and recommend that anyone who has not given this a consideration do so before its too late.
Another aspect of his interest was auto racing and we also attended many of the locally promoted racing events. Sports Cars were his primary attraction and we spent most of our time at those venues, Torrey Pines, HourGlass field, some old airport or wherever there was a group of any sort of racers even including earlier drag racing programs, so much so that at some point he got a bit bored with the old Ford wagon and stepped things up a bit. Some time around the mid 50's he made up his mind to roll in style, his choice of rides is pictured below. Can you believe he even let me drive that thing to High school on occasion, some interesting stories involved there :lookatme:. Man I wish I had that car today.

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Yes K.B. himself.


This is the team I used to be the Gopher for back in the early 60's, Dallas Martensen (L) and Bob Meyer (R) these guys were right in the thick of it, again at Ramona track, ran as well as the rest just underfunded sadly both are now deceased.The two of them worked for Crower at the time, lot of knowledge between them. Back in the day, right around the old Bakersfield meet all the east coast / midwest names would come out to California It was common to drop in at Dallas's house and have dinner with the likes of Garlits, Kallita, Ongias, Bruce Crower, I even remember Scott Kallita running around in diapers. Made for very memorable High School years.



No need for I.D. here, I think this was also at the Ramona airport track around same time frame if not the same day.

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I'll see what I can do, my No. Cal. brother has taken a lot of these old 35mm slides and somehow digitized them so I am not sure what happens to clarity when enlarged, as stated in an earlier post I am "Photo-ignorant", maybe he'll know how to handle it. perhaps I can just email it to you (that's how I get them) and you can deal with it. What's sad is that a lot of the old sports car slides of the Torrey Pines era, yeah right where that damn golf course sits today.. as if there isn't enough of them around here, I have no doubt that place would be a world class formula one facility today had it not been for our short sighted city Planners.....sorry for the rant but it still pisses me off... 50 years later :glarestraight:, anyway alot of them were stored poorly and couldn't be saved. What a shame, hundreds of beautiful old cars in their prime (1950's) Mercedes, Ferrari, Allard, Porsche the stuff you'd find today at Monterey vintage programs and the like,.. going WFO and guys like Phil Hill and Juan Fangio (I think he raced there) spittin bugs outta their teeth after an event. unreal !

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