June 1962. Start of the modified race with David Schiff #36, Joe Buzetta #71 and Bob Thomas on the front row. They finished 1-2-3 in FM in that order. #12 is Dick Mathews in his Healey-Chev.
June 1962. Start of the E production race. Bill Gurnee’s #4 TR-4 on pole next to John Steven’s Healey. Courier #74 and #59 TR of John Ingleheart. The MGA twincam #61 of Steve Durst is creeping next to Dick Schmanske’s TVR. Bob Gaunt’s Courier f
June 1962. Start race 8, HM, DP & FP race. Robert Stokke in the MGA coupe follows Bill Terrell in #9 MG. Way out front are the OSCA’s of Igleheart, Diaz and Butler with the Healey’s of Barrie Fearon & Francis Gorman accelerating up on the
June 1962. Bob Poupard in the BARC #66 MGA is ready for the start of the regional race in June. Richard Sundia #0, Dick Grim #93 and Dave Keppel in #97..
Dave Nicholas refuels the Bob Poupard/Ted Rounds MGA during the 4 hour race.
Bob Poupard drive his iris blue MGA past the grandstands. The long black marks were put down as this was the start area for the drag strip.
This is Ted Rounds in the MGA following #108 Porsche of Dave Oppenheim and leading #52 Alfa of Don Parr & Gene Woodfruff plus #31 Alfa with Bob Parsons and R. Smith.
A bugeye sits on its trailer while a happy couple drive by in their new VW bug. Good view of the backside of Vineland’s grandstands.
Aug 1962. #92 Ferrari of Filipo Theoldi and Freddie Barrette sits next to the CP Morgan of Pete Costigan and Pete Pulver. The #14 Porsche of Paul Skes and Dick Grimm make up the last row.
June 1962. The paddock at Vineland was not near the start line. The race directors car escorts the field from paddock to start line. Here they bring around the HM, E and F Production race.
August 1962. The start of the FP race
Aug 1962 The FP and HM race is underway. Way up front you can see the blue MGA of BARC driver Bob Poupard just behind the TVR of Stan Sherman. Those pesky HM cars are #6 Berkeley of Lawrence Samms and the SAAB Spl #24 of William Walters.
Aug 1962 E Production grid with Norm Rosengarten #88 TR, #26 Elva Courier of Robert Hassan on the front row. Carl Maisel’s green Morgan next to an unidentified novice. BillJohnson’s #94 Morgan sits next to the #29 Healey of John Stevens with Bur
Aug 1962. The modified race has Ed Lowther’s Lister Corvette in the center of Jack Wendt’s Lotus-Buick and an unknown Corvette. Eno dePasqual’s Costin Lister sits next to Oscar Koveleski’s Ferrari Chev. Paul Sykes in the #14 Carrera Coupe and Dic
Aug 1962. The libre grid. Sy Kabak in the red #72 Lotus gets the jump on #19 Porsche RSK of Bob Thomas and the 550 Porsche of John Kelly. The juniors were not listed in the program.
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Aug 1962 Oscar Koveleski’s Ferrari Chev leads the Lister Corvette of Hal Keck around the oval.
Sept 1962 Gerald Lustig in his black Vette with the Jag coupe of Charles Murray and the blue #84 of Ed Myers on the inside of the front row.
Sept 1962; Old Yeller MkVII #17 of Don Kirby sits next to Hal Keck’s red Lister and Ed Lowther’s yellow Lister on the inside. Jack Stewart in the Demar MkII #13 and the CM emv Healey Geln Carlson in the second row.
1964. Bob Bucher has a new toy, a Lotus 23-Ford. His first time out in the small car and Jake won.
1961 Regional race. Cars are gridded for the modified car race. Lotus,Porsche Spyder, Elva, OSCA and a SAAB special wait to start.
61 Vineland, Dick Jubanak’s MGA leads a heavily leaning Alfa
A typical regional racer, this unknown driver wheels his MGA. In those days, gloves were not mandatory.
Norm Cook was fast in his twincam. He would win the EP race at Vineland that May.
Walt White in his Devin Healey Special running in EM. Putting a lightweight fiberglass body on a sports car. What too often happened was the modifications to put the body on made the car heavier.
This photo was taken by Dan Fitzgerald in October. The Ferrari sits on a single axle trailer behind a Ford pickup. It was much simpler back in the day.
Dave Clark’s Lotus 7. Clark was a man to be reckoned with in the early 60’s in this car. The & was moved up to FP from GP when it dominated the slower class.
Bucher discusses the Lotus with Sherm Decker (striped shirt) and Roy Bishara. Dave Zych is still lusting after the twin cam Ford while Spankey Smith gets ready for fuel.
We knew Vineland was safe as the BARC Army contingent arrives from Ft. Dix, NJ. Dave Nicholas and George Valashinas in unidofmr while Roy Bishara cleans the car and Dave Zych looks on. Bucher asks a question of Sherm Decker who scratches his head.
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