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From Bob Engberg: "I dug around
and found more slides of the January 14-15, 1956 race at Torrey Pines.
My parents gave me a 35mm Kodak "Retina IIA" for Christmas two weeks before
this race, and I had enough money to buy one 20 exposure roll of Kodachrome
film to take with me to Torrey..."
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M. Gregory -- Maserati
Spyder / L. Brero -- Ferrari 121LM
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Phil Hill -- Ferrari
Monza /Bill Murphy -- Kurtis-Buick
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Jerry Austin / Pearce
Woods
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300SL's ? Frazer Nash
/ Jay Chamberlain -- D Jag
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Ken Miles / Harry
Chapman
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"Imagine the thrill of being a 13 year
kid with a camera in the midst of cars most of which I had only seen in
Road and Track. Some cars, like the Lotus
MK IX, somehow got into my system and I've been unable to shake them
out during the almost 50 years that separates that weekend from this day.
Some of the cars racing at that January event remain the most beautiful
ever made, in my eyes, and there was something about the grace of a Scaglietti
designed body that cannot be improved. They were aerodynamic (for their
day) and raced without intrusive roll bars; they seemed the very essence
of speed and daring and beauty."
"Anyway, these are the photos I took.
The ones that are obviously taken in the morning were shot after my brother
Chuck, friend Fred Puhn and I had sneaked into the course before the ticket
people were set up. With ingenuity one could usually sneak into the pit
lane along the front straight when no one was looking."
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Oker -- Joe Lubin's Aston DB3S
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