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- Steelworks
- Born in Buffalo, home of the Pierce Arrow and the Sabres. High school in Indiana, college at Berklee in Boston and have lived in Nashville,Tn since 1993 where I make my living as a guitarist. I've worked with John Prine, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and am currently playing guitar for country performer Gary Allan... we're on tour all the time, come on out and see the show. Thanks to my Dad's varied interests in the car world, I was exposed to everything from SCCA club racing to Classic Car Club of America and AACA events, muscle cars, and everything in between... all from a guy who restored, raced, and drove the cars he collected over the years. A great teacher in every respect. Current projects include a '29 Model A roadster with a Tom Sparks built flathead that will be made entirely of real Ford and/or period correct parts in the style of a 1940's hot rod, a 1969 Chevelle SS396 375hp conv, and keeping my daily driver, a 1971 Chevelle SS with a 406 sb that I've owned since the age of 17, on the road.
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Barney Oldfield (and Henry Ford),
The other two I can only guess: Vic Edelbrock Jr? Phill Hill?
Well done on the Oldfield/Ford 999. We still don't have the others. Lets see if someone else can chime in. Thanks for being involved.
614 'vette is Bob Bondurant. Looks to be his so cal "B" production title just before launching into europe with cobras. That would put it about '63.
Well done again! Especially with the Bondurant stuff from anderst5. I would have to ad though that the photo is probably from slightly before '63 (This really is nitpicking isn't it?). Bondurant remained a Corvette racer long enough to see and race the new for '63 Stingray. In much the same livery as the '59, his new Z06 was again sponsored by Washburn Chevrolet and sported the number 614. In fact, this car has survived and currently being vintage raced by Vic Edelbrock Jr. The 1959 car also survives and regularly vintage raced by Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle.
Lastly, Bondurant made less than a handful of races in the new '63 Z06 Corvette as he was competing with the new Cobras and could clearly see the writing on the wall. Several Corvette racers of the day had no choice but to jump ship to Cobra, including Bondurant and Dave MacDonald.
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