Classic Car Adventures

Have you ever considered how your classic was transported around the world or across the ocean? Before containers and roll on/roll off shipping, cars were often protected by wooden crates.

The Garage Blog recently posted a collection of Rob North’s contact sheet scans from the 1965 Grand Prix at Mosport, in Ontario. Names like Hobbs, Hall, and McLaren all pop up in these photos, and it is fascinating to compare the scenery and layout compared to today.

Bill “Doc” Molle, dentist and war hero, was quite disillusioned when Jim Hall came along and usurped his accustomed number 66 in the West Coast events, and felt that perhaps the “big bore” boys were stealing more thunder than they deserved. Read his raw, humorous, and honest remembrance of those early days of sports car racing.