"#2 is Mike Fisher in a Lotus 27.  The race is probably the June, 1965 SCCA National at Pacific Raceways.  Lovely won this race.  According to Martin Rudow's new book, Fisher's car was a Lotus 27 "...into which he put a twin cam and ran in Formula B..." Fisher went on to run a Lotus 33 at the 1967 Canadian GP."

"Fred Ambruster bought many of the cars Pete Lovely raced.  I know he bought the 500 TR (0650) the TRC (0662) and the Cooper.  I asked Pete who Armbruster was and the answer was vague.  I guess Armbruster was Pete's silent partner, angel, or major sponsor.

The Cooper-Ferrari was a T51 (F1/FII Mk IV) serial FII 14/60.  It was sold as a rolling chassis (less engine and gearbox) to Armbruster in July 1960. Pete bought the 2.5 engine from John von Neumann's 625 TRC 0680.

The 2.5 engine fit the existing formula 1 regulations and Pete was able to race at Riverside in the USGP 20 Nov 1960. He qualified 20th and finished 11th. Pete continued to race the car until at least 1965 (Kent 1st in Formula Libre) whenever he was allowed to run the car. There were not a lot of races for a formula libre car. Sometimes he was in a mixed class called "unlimited."

More from David Seielstad:

"To clean up the history of the Lovely engine. John von Neumann had two 625 TRCs (0672 and 0680). In spring 1959 he removed the engine from 0672 and replaced it with a V12. This became the "Hot Rod." Engine 0672 was sold to Jack Nethercutt who installed it in his TRC (0708). The 2.0 engine from 0708 went into the Jean Pierre Kunstle/Chuck Parsons  "Ferotus" (Lotus Mk.15-Ferrari). 

Pete Lovely was planning on entering the USGP in 1960. Although he was racing with Nethercutt in the TR59 (Sebring, Riverside and Westwood in 1960) Nethercutt did not sell him his 625 engine. At a later date Nethercutt sold the engine 0672 and chassis 0708 separately.   He sold engine 0672 to Dick Merritt in 19?? and it's now in 0712T, a Tasman formula car  that lost its original 2.8 liter 625 based engine.  Nethercutt sold chassis 0708 without engine to Lewis Kenner in February 1961. 

Lovely's 625 engine came out of 0680 (from von Neumann, probably Eleanor), and the chassis 0680 was then sold in May, 1960 without engine to Stan Sugarman who installed a Chevrolet V8.  Scott Rosen told me in 2/04 that he bought engine 0680 from Lovely.  Rosen wanted to buy chassis 0680 from Michael Callaham, but could not make the deal. 

I don't know where the Lovely Cooper is today, or engine 0680.  Pete told me he sold his Lotus 49 a few years ago, so I assume he also sold the Cooper chassis. I think I saw the Cooper chassis in Pete's shop as late as 1997. I remember the Lotus 49 being there and the 625 engine".