VeloceToday presents photographs by Bob Temple, coming to us via the collection of Vintage Motorphoto’s Dale LaFollette. Originally published May, 2017 in VeloceToday.com.
Photography by Bob Temple courtesy Dale LaFollette
Story by Pete Vack
Recently, old friend Dale LaFollette sent me a group of scanned negatives, but he wasn’t sure of the locations, year, or event. Nor was I. Enter equally old mutual friend Jim Sitz. I knew Jim because he would fact-check my articles for R&T, AQ and Forza back in the last century. Dale and I sent the photos to Jim for identification. The event was so rare – an early SCCA regional in the Midwest – that even today there is no trace of it anywhere in magazines or the Internet (well maybe Motor Trend, says Jim). But, Jim doesn’t rely on the Internet. No. Jim Sitz has everything on index cards – a card filing system from the pre-computer era.