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First, the backdrop: My late father, Jack Frost, M.D., was a huge Corvette fan. He was such a big fan that he started a mail order speed shop business in the 1960s called Hypo, Inc., which specialized in Corvette accessories. He was an avid drag racer, but from 1958-1972, he volunteered as a race course physician at Sebring. That was our annual spring break- going to the races, not the beach. There he would do pre-race physicals on the drivers, and then be assigned to be out on the course to be a first responder for any incidents. He was also into photography, and always carried both still and movie cameras with him.
My dad passed away in 2006, and then my mom in September 2017. My wife, being the family historian, agreed to take on the massive collection of family photos my dad took over the years. I retrieved them over New Year's Day, driving 400 miles each way in a sub-zero ice storm in a single day, taking 23 straight nerve wracking hours of driving. With me I brought a large SUV crammed to the gills with bins of photos, slides, and movies. I finally got slide scanner, and thought I would share what my first couple hand fulls of a bin of 10,000+ slides revealed. Enjoy!
Marc in Indy
I love checking out what was considered in the background to be so mundane as to not deserve a closer shot. Note the Lancia Fulvia Zagato #71
Had to interesting to share the track with the Fiat 600 (see front of line)- probably Abarth, and usual contender for Index of Performance award.
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (performance mods)
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very cool. one of the last slides showed the back of the vette and you can see a narrow yellow roofed car just in front of it, I'm wondering if its a GT40
very cool. one of the last slides showed the back of the vette and you can see a narrow yellow roofed car just in front of it, I'm wondering if its a GT40
I can tell by looking at it that its a Ferrari 250LM car #39.
Its this car:
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Marc,
Great pictures. Keep them coming! How is the white 72 doing?
Mike
Drove it around a bit last summer to sort out what nneds to be done. I think I am not going to go the all out NCRS preservation route, but will set it up as a stock as possible driver. Re-did the calipers, replaced brake hoses, rebuilt the e-brake and replaced the cable, and got fresh tires on it. The smoking went away totally when I rebuilt the carb. My garage is not heated, so once the weather warms up, I'll replace the squeaky water pump and replace the TH400 tailshaft bushing and seal. My plan is get it out to Bloomington Gold on the Saturday of the meet.
Is that Green 72 LS5 still for sale? Maybe I should dip into the piggy bank and move up!
Marc
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So how did my parents, my five brothers, and our St. Bernard Manfred make it to Sebring? By driving all the way from Iowa in Doc's Draggin' Wagon. My dad was an avid drag racer, and recognized the traction advantages of station wagons in the Stock class back in the late 1950's. If it was him and mom, it was one of the Vettes. But when the whole family went, well, we got there in a hurry! He would special order rather unusual grocery getters: first 1959, 1960, and 1961 Pontiac Bonneville 389 tri-power 4 speed wagons. Then came a series of early 60s 409 wagons. This was the last of the draggin' wagons, a 1966 Impala 427/425, 4 speed, and 4:11 posi rear end. One time at the track, when he was being protested after a overall Stock class win for having a car that wasn't really made by Chevy, he produced not just his order sheet and window sticker, but photos of it being unloaded off the semi-truck car hauler! It hauled a** up until my brother John broke a crank coming up our 1/4 mile lane after getting groceries...but that's another story for another day.
1968 Sebring
