Period race photos of Sunbeams

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I thought these links to John Wilson’s photos might be of interest to some of you. John Wilson is a Motorsport photographer on the west coast. Unfortunately, there were no captions so I tried to identify the drivers/cars I could;

http://homepage.mac.com/johnwilson1942/ … index.html

1 – #50 Ken Miles in a Tiger
2 through 12 – #66 Art Firms. This Tiger is now owned by Steve Sorensen
13 – #49 possibly Roger Enade’s Alpine
14 +15 – #45 Lew Spencer in the yellow Shelby Tiger
16 – #73 Tiger… not sure
17 through 22 – #55 Jim Adams in the Hollywood Sport Car Tiger
23-24 – unknown
25-34 – Ron Dykes in the Hollywood Sport Car Tiger
35 – #54 Serge May in the Series 3
36 – #14 The Bob Richman Alpine possibly driven by Jim Adams, D. Jordan or Steve Froines (or any other driver that ran the car)
37 – #44 Orange Alpine is a Sebring Alpine driven by ? (Denny Harrison? Maybe George Cheyne? BTW< this is the old Proctor/Harper Sebring car. Now owned by Andrew Martin)
38 – #184 Unkown – could this be the Hollywood Sports Car Alpine???? Windscreen sort of looks right…
39 – #66 Sereis II, "Behler". He ran the ARRC in 1968 but was suppose to race an Alfa.
40 – #66 Tommy Elliot driving the "Visalia Dodge Boy’s" Alpine (this is the car I own today)
41 – #66 Tommy Elliot driving the "Visalia Dodge Boy’s" Alpine
42 – #54 Serge May, #14 is the Bob Richman Alpine
43 – #54 Serge May

http://homepage.mac.com/johnwilson1942/ … index.html (mostly Alpine photos here, some duplicates from the link posted above)

1 – Don Sansanac in #67 and William Rushton in #69 (I think Don’s car was in Herbie the Love Bug… as a side note)
2 – #44 Orange Alpine is Denny Harrison or maybe George Cheyne
3 – #69 William Rushton
4 – #122 leading is the old 1962 Sebring Car
5 – #184 not sure… might be the old Hollywood Sports Car Alpine
6- #66 Behler at the 1968 ARRC
7 – #66 Tommy Elliot
8- #66 Tommy Elliot
9 – #66 Tommy Elliot
10 – #54 Serge May

It was really kind of John to pull these Sunbeam images from his archives and post them to the internet. He sells these images, too. http://www.vintagemotorsportphotography … Categories
Hope you enjoyed them.

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Looks like Don Sansanac in #67 is running LAt wheels on the car

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