Review by Pete Vack
Lead Photo
16-year-old Lynn Hirsch, center, Carla Haug, also 16, at left, and Mrs. Trudy Hirsh, 20, right celebrate the opening of Jerry Hirsch’s Lynndale Farms Road Racing Course.
The 1960s were a tumultuous time; from the hope and promise of the late 1950s to the precipitous drop off when everything seemed to go wrong, it was a decade in dire straights. However, between 1963 and 1966 there was a brief respite before the storm, the four years after the healing of the Kennedy assassination to the onset of the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
And good years too, for a young SCCA racer named Bill Schley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norm Schley of Waukesha, Wisconsin, who bought a Fiat Abarth Berlina 1000 and went racing, setting records and winning events at a nearby track called Lynndale Farms. [Read more…] about Four Short Years of Lynndale Farms, a Review