"It's exciting that you think that's Stan Burnett behind Grant in the photo I sent you.  I still remember the day my dad asked me if I'd like to go to a sports car race.  Had to be 1961.  There was a guy he worked with that had built his own car and would I like to see him race it?  That guy was Stan Burnett.  Standing in the pits next to The Burnett Special when Stan fired it up was too much for this 11 year old to handle!  That was the end of my beginning interest in drag racing and my dad and I went to several more sports car races at Pacific Raceways in the following years. 

I've found only one other photo of Stan, driving a Ferrari, on your site.  If I remember correctly, he was in between cars of his own design when he scored the Ferrari ride."

From Bill Lebo  (5-11-05

"The Seafair race photo showing Jerry Grant and Lew Florence and Stan Burnett also includes Don Jensen in a Poniac powered '56 Corvette.  The engine was from the wreck of his Victress bodied special which he'd flipped at Shelton.  Don ran the Corvette until he had completed his next special, a Devin bodied solid axle front-engined car named the "Black Mariah". 

"It was uncompetitive and he eventually purchased a mid-engined Special built by Stan Burnett.  That car is now campaigned by Merrill Faulk while Don is still racing in SOVREN events in a Lola Chev Frisbee bodied CanAm car.  The other car in the background is John Antons from Oregon in an Aluminum Buick engined Lotus 6 (ex-Frank Crane).  It was quite a handful.  Antons had also raced the ex-George Keck RSKeck Special in H modified powered by a BMW 700cc motor." 

From Vince Howlett:

"I don't believe this was the Seafair.  The SCG writeup for the Seafair said:

"...Lew Florence, 2-litre Lotus, Stan Burnett, Chevy Special, and Charles
(Junior) Parsons, Ferrari-Lotus making up the front row.  Jerry Grant was at the rear on the grid..."

I believe this was the April 30 Evergreen Trophy won by Grant with Florence second.  And while the other cycle-fendered car in the background looks like the Lotus 6, I believe it is actually Ray Rairdon in an Allard. 

(Probably correct!  Frank Crane first raced his Lotus Mk.6-Buick at Stockton in Northern California on April 16-17, 1962.  He took the car to the Northwest for the June 16-17 Portland Rose Cup event and again for the July 28-29 Seafair race.  He DNF'd in both.  He later won a minor event at Pacific Raceways sometime in 1962. I don't know when he sold the car to John Antons.  TM)

Details on these races and others in the Northwest from the 50's and early
60's are in Martin Rudow's book "Long Straights and Hairpins", which is now being released."