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I found a couple of pics I took from the last race held there in '72....

First is a C sports racer powered by a fuel injected Mini Cooper engine with a cross flow head.





This is my Dino, parked up on a hill, about 4 years before I bought it. I didn't realize it was the same car I'd photographed years before till well after I'd bought it. There were a couple of tell tales - the white turn signal lenses (all US Dinos had yellow lenses), the knock off hubs (illegal in the US since 68) and the slightly droopy left rear bumper and the left quarter paint that didn't quite match the rest of the car.....I never had it painted, a guy at the dealership wheeled out the paint and when shiny it matched perfectly. The reason for the non-US spec is that the car was imported straight from Europe by a local TWA pilot - you could do that back then.....

I took this pic because I thought this was the most beautiful car in the world and I'd never seen one in person before - years later it was mine!





Did you notice in the newspaper article about the Ferrari Testarosa in the race - KC used to have a thriving race car and high end import car culture....now, not so much. At one time we had two Ferrari dealers in town....

There were three of these type races held in the midwest - races on public roads around a city park with a lake in the middle - Lake Garnet, Ponca City (Ok) and Lake Afton near Wichita.....I ran all of them over my career but the fellow in this pic is the reason they stopped immediately after this race. He's driving a Zink Daytona with a 2 litre Cosworth engine (BDA?)



and here's all that was left....he was trying to pass a slower car and clipped it sending him straight into a tree. He succumbed to his injuries at the track. And that was the end of it....



After that all SCCA races were held at proper racetracks, no more public road courses.