"This is my Monza after a race at Del
Mar. I don't remember much about who I raced against except for one
car. It was a Devin bodied V8 powered something or other. I couldn't
catch him and he would have won except he went off course and I was close
enough to get by.
I ran this car at Santa Barbara and managed
to crash into Lance Reventlow when
he spun in turn one. Three months later I had it back together and entered
one of the USAC races at Riverside where the half-speed gear driving the
cam shafts broke and the pistons managed to mash the valves up rather
badly.
Instead of fixing it I bought a new Dolphin
F-jr with the Monza involved in the deal. I don't have any pictures of
the Dolphin, but I raced it and actually won a Saturday race at Pomona
beating Ken Miles and Don
Hulette. Actually that happened, and it sounds great to say it
like that, but truthfully I was running third back so far that I lost track
of them and they both had problems and took to the pits. The funny thing
was I didn't know where they were and won without knowing I was in first."
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