"Bill, I will have to locate the Vintage Motorsport article, of about ten years ago,about the missing Aston DB3S. I think it was the Jack Mathes driven car with a Chevrolet motor. This was the last Lubin car that the factory upgraded from a customer street car to full factory specs. It may have originally had the twin plug head."

From Bill de Creeft:

"That makes sense, Ron. I think Keith sold it back to Joe Lubin with a busted engine, and they or someone put a Chevy engine in it. I probably raced against it at Riverside and a few other places and didn't recognize it.  Keith only raced the one time and I went on for a year and a half. 

Does that mean it's still missing....or does that explain it?  Keith went to Europe and got into  a partnership to build race cars called WRE's which went a short while but faded. I think one of the partners in Willment was involved.  I got to race the Willment one race at Riverside and was passing the Lotuses and then ran out of fuel.....they hadn't bothered to fuel it up because they didn't expect me to do so well as far as I could tell!  I was really pissed (I had to buy a tire for it to earn the ride).  I coulda been a Contender!!"

From Ron Cummings:

"As I recall Tony Settember was a partner in the WRE program.  He won a 2.0 liter race in Italy with a Maserati powered version. Several of these front engined Maserati cars are said to be still in Italy, I think there were three.  One Chevrolet powered car was imported to Southern California by the builder. Max Norris cut the car in half at Willow Springs after hitting a water puddle at start/finish during a CalClub training day. The car spun around and hit a pole. I am not kidding, the car ended up in two pieces. Max was not hurt but quit racing right on the spot. The builder, who's name escapes me, rebuilt the car and I never heard of it again."

From Bill de Creeft:

Tony!  God yes, it's coming back! One of the best drivers there ever was!  Tony was loved by Keith and me.....watched him race a Corvette and 300SL and he did a lot of work on Keith's 300SL and he did a lot of work for me on an old '32 Pierce-Arrow that I literally bought out of a henhouse in Claremont for $400.....you can find it on my website.

Now I remember he was in on the WRE thing.... Keith had a lot to do with the money and ideas and tony raced it.The other member may have been John Williams (the "Will" in Willment I think)who was really the designer....pretty sure.

They were living in the Albergo on the track at Modena....I went there and Barbara and I stayed there and there were Ferraris all day long testing; plus the local Aero club.  One pilot liked to come home overhead, kill the engine, go inverted, and loop to a landing and roll up to his chocks deadstick!  Italians !?!

(I mentioned the Ferrari to the factory and they didn't even want to talk about a six year old car.  Neither did Chinetti when I limped into New York in it with a flat roller (cam follower). I had to fix it myself outdoors on a street corner in NYC.)

I went on a trip to Europe with my wife,dog, and a new Jeep full of camp gear.....I took my helmet and goggles to race, but it had not been easy for them so I didn't race.  Seems like they had just won a race in Africa (Morocco?) because it ran really good after they sprung for new plugs!?!  It was kind of like that. 

One of the reasons I went to Europe was because Bill Love had sold me a Willment that was supposed to be built and never seemed to be getting anywhere (it was he who had not put gas in the Willment at Riverside..but boy that car went up till it ran dry; I was passing the Lotuses on the *inside* of the curve after that long straight...had to hang my cheekbone on the plexiglas windscreen to keep my head upright against the centrifugal force in that corner; ....I was Winning!)....I went to the factory (in England) and there was just a tube frame leaning against the wall and they had painted my name on something they'd scabbed together.  I remember a really hard time getting my money back.

In those days my wife still had a little money, but I spent it all. She kept me though, and we've been married since 1954. I went to work flying and redeemed myself.

I went to a meeting at Cable Airport a few years ago and met Tony's son there...looked just like the Tony I remember; do you know if he's still alive?