M"Mixed Bag"

• Austin Raceway in Austin, Texas, is pictured here in a photo sent to me by Corinthian vintage TR4 racer Bob Kramer who is doing research on the former race track. The track was in "use" up to about the late '60s or early '70s if memory serves. If you have any information on the track or photos of races/workers, contact Bob. Email me and I'll send you his email address. Or you might look in the Guest Book.

 
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  • Dave Dooley's former Lotus Ford Cortina, then owned by Mark Cain of Oklahoma City, is shown here at an SCCA driver's school at Texas World Speedway in Bryan, Texas, put on by none other than Bob Bondurant's school. Wilbur Shaw, Jr. was the head instructor. Gary Burton (behind the car), Mustang, Oklahoma, was driving it in July of 1970 where the temperature was well over 100 degrees.
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  • Dooley, also from Oklahoma City, ran this car in the SCCA Trans Am series in the mid '60s and was the only Cortina in the 1967 SCCA Road Race of Champions in Nov., where he DNF'd. Dooley also DNF'd at the Green Valley 300 Trans Am on April 16 after 5 laps.
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  • Dooley co-drove the car with well known Midwest Div. Mustang driver John McComb of Wichita, Kanas, at another Trans Am event during the year as well as a couple of co-driver stints in McComb's Mustang. McComb ran some events solo, too.
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  • That's my future husband, to the right with his head stuck in his Nomex, about to pass out from heat stroke. I think he was staggering around and saying, "I've gone blind! I've gone blind!"
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  • Note the dirty T-shirt. He'd been under the car in the dirt trying to stop a leaking fuel pump connection and reconnecting a torn off exhaust pipe. That's his TR4 to the right. Linda Burton snapped this photo.

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• That is all for this month.
• More Photos in the near future. Be sure to come back.
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