More info on these historical films....
The treasure began with the help of Clay (Foosh)...who deserves the credit for pursuing this...
Clay met a fellow on another car forum who, in the course of discussions, mentioned that, as a kid, he worked on the pit crew for a racing Cobra. Further probing revealed that it was the Essex Wire car, CSX3009...one of the earliest independant 427 Comp cars...with a long racing history.
(I will continue to refer to him as "this fellow", since I have not secured the permission yet to use his name online....but. that's coming soon.)
Well, this fellow said he was sure he had some old 8mm films 'in the attic' of a race that he worked.
It turns out that the race was Pensecola SCCA, in April 1965. CSX3009 was invoiced in that month..so this is the first outing of the car in a sanctioned event.
Clay pursued further and convinced him to get the films transferred. He did and we got a copy post haste.
The films chronicle the whole weeked of racing...in the pits, on the track.
Further...SAI had a team there and we have rare clips of Bob Johnson and Tom Payne running their 289 Comp cars.
I am in the process of doing frame grabs of some of the crisp scenes and extracting internet-ready clips... this is some great stuff!
Clay...I owe ya big time!
Here is the first of the few clips that were extracted...this one features CSX3009.
Hope you enjoy this stuff as much as I do.
Clip of CSX3009 at Pensecola
Vintage film of CSX3009
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