1968 Can-Am, Edmonton

 From the September 30, 1968 Edmonton Journal.

 

some videos, 1966 Las Vegas Can-Am

Got to get into a rhythm again. Big time racing with Jackie, Bruce, John, Dan and others.

story on David Saville-Peck

Here's a link to a story on former Can-Am racer David Saville-Peck in Business Examiner. (Thanks Robert B. for the heads up.)

Top is a photo I took of him being photographed by the guy at the starting line last May at the Knox Mountain Hill Climb.

odds and ends

Rambling warm Saturday, first warm day for a long time so everyone seemed to be out and about, including me.

So in keeping with that attitude here is an unfocused post:

Came across a news item from 1977 saying that Tom Berrow, from Port Coquitlam, BC, qualified 36th for the Permatex 300 NASCAR race at Riverside, CA. That would be the support race to the Winston Cup cars (of that era, now they're Sprint Cup stock cars). No follow up article that I could find but I have only looked in one newspaper of the day. (The photo is of Tom with his number 86 super stock along with Al Tourond at Langley Speedway in 1976.)

Also, from the motorcycling world is this link. Motorcycle photos from Westwood from the early 1960s.

Finally, from back east there are a few interesting articles in the current issue (April 08) of Inside Track Motorsport News: one on the Can-Am series, another on a longtime stock car racer from Ontario and another on the 2008 induction ceremony for the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.

arrived in the mail today

A couple interesting motorsport items with Canadian connections.

First, John Cordts' short book Blood, Sweat and Turnips.

Second, The Alternate is the beginning installment on The Emory Collins Story, as told to Earl Fabritz.

Haven't read much of either yet so I can't comment. But both hold subjects are of interest to me. Cordts from a photo way back when at a rainy Laguna Seca where he won a Can-Am race. And Emory Collins because of his growing up in Regina, SK, and his racing beginnings from there.

April 1st -- Well, that above paragraph was wrong. John Cannon won the Can-Am race back in 1968 at Laguna Seca. Not sure at the moment if Cannon ever raced at Westwood. John Cordts did as far as I know. And Cordts did race Can-Am during its heyday.

And this is no April Fool joke.