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The Hobby of Beverly Hills’ Joe Lubin Part 3

November 19, 2019 By pete

Carroll Shelby takes the Lubin 250F out for a couple of laps at Riverside before the 1960 Times Grand Prix for sports cars. [photo; Willem Oosthoek Collection]

Story by Willem Oosthoek

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The Birdcage sale left Lubin with one other competition car, the “piccolo” Maserati 250F. He had acquired the car at the factory in late 1959 with his friend Bruno Ferrari, 12 years older and the owner of Latrobe Construction in Pennsylvania. They bought it with the November 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside in mind, the season-ending Formula One event. It was chassis 2533, previously owned by U.S. privateer Temple Buell.

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The Hobby of Beverly Hills’ Joe Lubin Part 2

November 12, 2019 By pete

Los Angeles, November 1959. The spanking new, just arrived Lubin Tipo 61 on display in Los Angeles. No, that is not actress Barbara Eden, but JoAnne Pickens, mother of Greg Wood, who supplied the photo. The others are unidentified. [Photo: Greg Wood Collection]

Story by Willem Oosthoek

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It is doubtful that Alfieri would have made the commitment to Lubin for a larger Birdcage engine so quickly if he had not already been in the process of enlarging the 2-liter unit into the 3-liter range. As a result, Lubin received the first Tipo 61 ever built, the 2.9-liter chassis 2452.

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Riverside, the City of Speed’s Playground

March 4, 2009 By pete

Riverside’s first feature event, September 22, 1957. Eventual winner Richie Ginther, in John Edgar’s Ferrari 410S leads Bob Drake in Frank Arciero’s Ferrari 375 Plus early in the race.
Credit: Ken Parker, MTL Archive.

By Michael T. Lynch

When road racing enjoyed a revival after World War II, Watkins Glen, New York held the first race in the fall of 1948. The next year, Bridgehampton, New York; Linden, New Jersey; Concord, California and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida joined Watkins Glen with races for the imported cars that were arriving on U.S. shores. [Read more…] about Riverside, the City of Speed’s Playground