Graham Hill in the #42 RS-60. Hill and Bonnier chose not to drive the car in the race. Gendebien & Herrmann were assigned to the car and won the race.

Hill and Bonnier in front of #42. Are they making the decision to drive another car in the race?

Hill and Bonnier decided on #43. Here Graham drives the car. It lasted 43 laps and the motor blew. Hmm, wonder what they were thinking when their original car won.

The pilots compartment of a factory Porsche RS-60.

The #46 RS-60 driven by Anton vanDory and Roberto Mieres. The car and team had won the under 1.6 class at Daytona, but at Sebring the engine broke.

A stunning yellow RS-60 driven by Ernie Erickson and Don Sessler. The car was fast in practice but jammed a timing gear at the start and completed just 1 lap.

Porsche’s line up before the race. Sebring 1960 was huge for Porsche as this was their first big international overall win. Next to the winning RS-60 is the Carerra Coupe of Count Karel Godin de Beaufort, know to the barcboys as Count deBlowfart.

The #44 of Bob Holbert and Roy Schecter were leading when an electric gremlin stopped them in the pits giving the win to Gendebien and Hermann. A glorious look at what international endurance racing looked like in 1960.

The Holbert/Schecter RS-60 was was entered by Brumos Porsche. None of the RS-60’s were entered by Porsche - they were all entered by individuals but driven by the best Porsche had.

Ferrarri 250 Testa Rossa 59/60. This car was driven by Chuck Daigh and Richie Ginther and was our pick to win. Sadly it was a dnf.

Daigh heading down the short straight to the old hairpin. Flat out, nose a bit high and a screaming V12.

The Lovely/Nethercutt car is pushed to the starting grid. I have always thought the 250 TR 59/60 to be among the best looking race cars ever.

Jack Nethercutt signals he is coming into the pits in his Ferrari Testa Rossa 59/60. He and Pete Lovely would finish 3rd overall.

The #10 Ferrari rolls to the starting grid. Note the size of the crowd. Ed Hugus & Augie Pabst were 4th overall in the Berlinetta

This gorgeous yellow SWB Ferrari was 7th Geroge Arents & Bill Kimberly

Bill Sturgis & Fritz D'Orey were 6th in the #12 FerrariBerlinetta

George Constantine, Dean McCarthy & Bob Publicker were 10th OA in the 250 GTCalifornia Ferrari

The Italian duo of Georgio Scarlatti & Carlo Abate were 8th in this Scuderia Serenissima California

The #17 California George Reed & Alan Connell were 5th

The Mexican phenom brothers Ricardo & Pedro Rodriguez look over their 2 liter Dino Ferrari.

Ricardo ready to head out. We barcboys were so jealous of the brothers. We were the same age and sleeping on the ground eating peanut butter sandwiches and they were racing a NART Ferrari at Sebring.

The business compartment of a Ferrari 250TR 59/60

Dan Gurney drove this Maserati Tipo 61 “birdcage” with Stirling Moss. For a short while Gurney had a white stripe on his normal black helmet.

Stirling Moss, the fastest race car driver on the planet in 1960 signals the Maserati’s transmission has given up. Moss was tough on cars and it was often win or break but there was no denying his speed.

The Causey Brothers Birdcage gets some brake attention. Luke Stear co drove with Dave Causey but this car suffered the same fate as the Gurney and Moss car. Transmission trouble.

Causey always presented nicely prepared cars. His twin brother Dean and he were farmers from Indiana and invented several farming techniques including hydroponics.

The Cunningham Maserati of Walt Hansgen and Ed Crawford suffered from a differential failure. The Tipo 61 featured a transaxle to create a 50/50 weight distribution and it often failed. Fact: over 200 steel tubes were used to create the frame - hence the nickname Birdcage.

Ed Crawford who drove several years for Cunningham in the red Maserati.. Crawford was raised in Chicago to a wealthy family and got his reputation in his blue 550RS Porsche before joining Cunningham. At Sebring he high sided the birdcage at the hairpin and spent 30 minutes digging it out.

Hap Sharp and Jim Hall shared this Cooper Monaco and while fast, it was very fragile and only completed 26 laps.

Sir Stirling laps the Tom O’Brien/Don Horn Alfa. Moss and Gurney led the race before their transmission failed.

BMC brought 4 twin cam roadsters with hard tops. 3 raced and one was labeled P. The #38 was the British driven car of Colin Escort and Ted Lund.

This is the Canadian car driven by fred Hayes and Ed Leavans. This car was 24th overall. Most important it was later owned and raced by BARC founder Dave Nicholas who won FP in the 1968 Watkins Glen 100. The car now lives in Germany with Stephen Propsting.

This car with the white stripe was the American driven entry of Dan Flaherty and Jim Parkinson. This car was owned by barc member John Wright and it is exactly as it was at Sebring - unrestored and wonderful.

To not wear out the mechanics of the twin cams, MG brought a sister P car. The lore has it that the car was being taken to Cuba, the boat sank and it now sits at the bottom of the Caribbean.

Eells Kelley’s haunting portrait of American racing legend Masten Gregory, the Kansas Flash. Gregory was a hero of Jim Clark, Carroll Shelby and Joe Tierno. Tierno liked him because he was one of the only really quick drivers to wear glasses.

Augie Pabst finished 4th overall in the Ed Hugus 250GT Berlinetta #10. Pabst was not only an exceptional driver but a prankster of the first order. Noted for parking his rental car in a motel swimming pool and simply walking away.

Swede Joachim Bonnier (black shirt) holds a drawing presented to him by Johnny Cuevas a wealthy Cuban whose family were Sugar barons.

Walt Hansgen (back to camera) talks things over with Pete Lovely (cowboy hat). Ed Crawford to the left in the black shirt.

Pedro Rodriguez (goggles) with Zora Duntov (dark glasses) and Carroll Shelby chat before the start.

Dave Causey sits in his birdcage Maserati warming it up before the start.

Chuck Dietrich, barc member, does his best impression of Maynard J Krebs alongside his very fast racing wife Suzie.

Carroll Shelby in his chicken farmer coveralls had an unevenfrul weekend driving with Masten Gregory in a Camoradi Maserati. The car lasted 3 laps.

John Fitch (white coveralls) and Briggs Cunningham are surrounded an hour before the race. Fitch and Cunningham would drive a Corvette oddly entered by Jaguar cars of New York. Fitch rolled the Corvette when a hub broke.

Belgian ace Olivier Gendebien listens to Ollie Schmidt. We nicknamed Gendebien Jellybeans to mimic the pronunciation in French. Jellybeans won in the Porsche and twice other with Phil Hill in Ferrari’s and go on to win Le Mans 4 times.

Great Italian Georgio Scarlatti drove the Scuderia Serenissima Ferrari California to 8th overall with Carlo Abate.

Stirling Moss has a chat with Geoff Healey, son of Austin Healey founder Donald.

A young Dan Gurney. Already part-timer at Ferrari he co-drove with Moss and led much of the day. Dan Gurney was a giant of motor racing and we were privileged to see him many times.

I think its Jim Jeffords but the Corvette experts say no. We can’t see the number so this driver needs to be identified by a reader.

Fast Fred Windridige next to the Corvette he shared with Dick Thompson. This was a sister car of Fitch and Cunningham and fared no better blowing its motor at lap 41.

Ricardo Rodriguez speaks Italian to one of the Ferrari mechanics who is taking care of his OSCA Formula Junior.

Ricardo and Stirling Moss on the start grid. Moss started equally as young as the Rodriguez brothers. Was he passing on his knowledge?

Pedro sits on the pit wall, his Mom in the polka dot slacks attended the brothers races religiously.

Phil Forno sits and warms up one of Cunninghams Stanguellini’s.

J Ward Allen, a funeral home director from Endicott came to race the Jim Forno and Ike Williamson Morgan but the car broke before Ward could get in.

Paul Richards won the Sebring 3 hour race.- in a Fiat Abarth. Not even Stirling Moss in a factory Sprite could catch Richards.

Phil Hill arrives. Besides being an F1 world champion, many time Le Mans & Sebring winner Hill was an avid and excellent photographer.

One of the famous Sebring High School cheerleaders.

BARC on its way to Sebring. Dave Nicholas (hat and shades) Dave Zych (middle) and our patron Spankey Smith and his MG Magnette. Easy to see why we are smiling - look at the snow across the street.

Map of the original Sebring course.

The cover of the 1960 Sebring program.