Dave Nicholas' Photos -- Sebring, 1960
From Dave Nicholas: "We were 18 when we beg borrowed and stole
our way from upstate NY to Sebring. There were a bunch of us known
as the BARC: "Binghamton Automobile Racing Club" and the way we paid for
gas to get to races was by selling photos to guys with TR-3s and MGA's.
We had a hell of a run. Hung out with Lance
Reventlow and the Scarabs
-- were close with Briggs Cunningham
and Alfred
Momo when the Scarabs came east to duel it out with the Lister-Jags.
The top two shots need to be credited to John Kelley. He was #8 in
BARC. "
Link to Dave's: BARC
Boys Website
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From Dave Nicholas: "We were all in love with that damn Testa
Rossa. I still think it is possibly the most beautiful
Ferrari -- hell, race car -- ever built. Jack
Nethercutt was terrific. Never met him, but he must have had
some money. Look at the perfect helmet, goggles, gloves... the dude
was very, very cool."
(Photo by John Kelley) |
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From Dave Nicholas: "Pete
Lovely has the RRDC decal and the white helmet." Note the ugly
FIA-required windshield and luggage bump. Olivier Gendebien and Hans
Herrmann won the 1960 Sebring 12-hour race outright in a Jo Bonnier-entered
Porsche
RS60, and the all-American trio of Bob Holbert/ Roy Scheckter/Howard
Fowler drove a Brumos Porsche-entered RS60 to 2nd place. Nethercutt
and Lovely in Nethercutt's #8, the 3-liter V12 Ferrari Testa Rossa #0768,
finished 3rd.
(Photo by John Kelley) |
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From Dave Nicholas: "I have no idea who the guys are that
are refueling #8, but it sure says a lot about safety in those days.
Note the only thing that separates the front straight from the pits are
some hay bales."
(Photo by Dave Nicholas) |
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