1956-62 Production/GT
Sports Cars -- "The Corvette Race"
The 50th Anniversary of America's sports
car, the Corvette, was celebrated at the Monterey Historics this year.
No less than 23 of the fiberglass-bodied cars entered Saturday's "Group
5B". They filled the first 10 places.
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Joe Freitas in #77 leads Ron Cressey
in #59. |
Bob Reynolds holds off three challengers
in Turn 5. |
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The race! Cressey leads Freitas,
eventual winner Ken Epsman, and Noel Park, who DNF'd. |
Robert Bodin finished 11th. He
was the first non- Corvette across the line in his Ferrari 250GT SWB. |
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Steve Earle leads Paul Reinhart through
Turn 5. |
Art Redford was 12th in his colorful
car. |
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