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May 30, 1955, Iowa City SCCA Races

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Photographs by Glen Glendenning courtesy Dave Rex
Text by Pete Vack

We begin our review of the SCCA races at Iowa City on May 30th 1955 with Janet Guthrie. While doing our homework on this small Midwest town, we learned that it was the birthplace of the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, both in 1977. Born in 1938, Guthrie was seventeen at the time of the Iowa City SCCA race and already obtaining her pilot’s license. Seems that her father, also a pilot, was the manager of the Iowa City Municipal Airport, across the river from the old state capitol building, in 1938. Furthermore, Janet first began racing at SCCA events with a Jaguar XK140MC, of which there were plenty at the Iowa City races in the mid-fifties.

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Unusual Sports Car Venues circa 1956

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Moretti

Photography by Glen Glendenning courtesy of Dave Rex

Sports Car Trials

While most professional photographer chose to spend their time and film on real racing events with the big cars and big names, Glen Glendenning also set his lens on the minor events around the extremely active Wisconsin sports car scene, from rallies to trials to ice racing and hillclimbs. It was club racing at the grassroots level. [Read more…] about Unusual Sports Car Venues circa 1956

And How!

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A few years ago we established a mini-feature entitled “And How” as a page to drop in short items, newsbits, addendums, etcetera. It worked fairly well. But after a while, I forgot to make further use of it. Then last week Graham Gauld, Rich Minor and Kendall Merritt had a few things they would like to impart, but shorts, y’know, things that would fit into a mini-feature. How do we do that within the VT format? Oh ya, I remember now. And How. Ed.

Mike Anthony gives Tony Brooks a push at the 1956 British GP. (Photo Gauld)

Graham Gauld and Tony Brooks

I am afraid I was unable to add anything to the comments about Tony Brooks as I had just left France after 27 years and getting adjusted to being back in the UK. [Read more…] about And How!

Jeff Allison Captions Ferraris by Glendenning

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By Jeff Allison

This article first appeared in Prancing Horse, the quarterly magazine of the Ferrari Club of America.

Before his passing in 2014, Glen Glendenning sent David Rex a box full of loose photo scrapbook pages—you know the kind with the black mounts that you’d slip over the corners of a photo, lick the glue on the back of the mount and position the photo on a page. Remember, they tasted terrible! Rex provided the photos to editor Pete Vack for possible use in VeloceToday.com. Luckily, Glendenning had written brief descriptions under some of the photos, and the pages were in chronological order. Taken with a 35MM single-lens reflex camera, Glendenning obviously had access to the pits, the track, and the people. He owned a public relations firm with a film lab, producing twenty-six films for the Schlitz brewery, so photography probably was natural for him. [Read more…] about Jeff Allison Captions Ferraris by Glendenning

Glen Glendenning, Photographer

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We begin our series below with a biography of Glen Glendenning and a selection of his photographs.

Glen Glendenning, left, with D Jag racer Don Skogmo. Photographer unknown.

By Pete Vack

In 2012, Dennis Shoff and Dave Rex found a 1952 road race special named the “Comet” in the back of a race shop at Virginia International Raceway, and purchased it from fellow vintage racer Larry Narcus, who had restored the car and gathered some of the car’s history including contact information for the car’s ex-owner and driver, Glen Glendenning. [Read more…] about Glen Glendenning, Photographer

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