[Fot] Racing In Golden Gate Park

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Yesterday as part of the annual Sonma Historic Motorsports Reunion at Infineon Raceway (actually, as of today Infineon's naming rights expired so it is now Sonoma Raceway), the track held a press conference celebrating the 60th anniversary of the races in Golden Gate Park. Present were three local ex-drivers who participated in those races and three of the original cars that were driven in the races - an ex-Phil Hill Aston Martin DB2, a 1950 Jaguar Parkinson Special and the Mercury flathead powered Baldwin Special. Amazing to see the drivers (all in their early 80s) and the three cars together. It was a kick to watch the ex-drivers all bench racing about the old days. 

This Saturday at the track they will have a seminar with the 1952 race winner, Bill Pollack (event Grand Marshall) plus five of the ex-drivers that raced in the Park. The event is receiving local TV, newspaper and as you've seen, Internet coverage. 

Gary Horstkorta 
Archivist - SF Region/SCCa 
1962 TR4 
1969 TR6 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark W. Nicholls" <cwnfot at gmail.com> 
To: Catpusher at aol.com, fot at autox.team.net 
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:41:13 PM 
Subject: Re: [Fot] Racing In Golden Gate Park 

Is this it, Hardy? 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/27/BAIJ1OM33L.DTL 
Another... 
http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/articles/driver-returns-to-days-of-glor 
y 

Clark 
Clark W. Nicholls 
1972 Stag (LE7931E), 1974 Spitfire (FM14571U) 
and 1 rusty GT6 needing new owner 
"Reality, it's not what you think." 
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