| (1-26-03)
Kean Rogers of "Kangaroo
Stable" provided this info:
"The first picture was
taken at Palm Springs on November, 3rd 1957. Rod is in Car #54, DB3S
Team car 11 and Jan Wells is in car #53, Production car DB3S/104.
Jan came second in the Ladies race and Rod 12th (in the main event).
The second picture is
at Laguna Seca , November 10th 1957. Rod is in car #54 again with
Gil Geitner behind him in car # 154. Rod placed 6th and Gil 7th."
Bob
Engberg contributed this info:
"The first Aston Martin
photo was taken in Palm Springs in November 1957, when both of these cars
were entered by Rod Carveth. The #53 car is a "DB3S" and the #54
car a "DBRS."
David McKinney posted
the following on "Atlas
F1 Nostalgia Forum":
"Briefly, and I'm afraid
not very specifically.... The DB3S was built in two series. The first lot,
numbered 1-10, were built for the works team between 1953 and 1956 and
during the last two years a production run numbered 101-120 was added.
Carveth raced a production
model (DB3S/104) 1956-58 and this was also driven by several other drivers,
including Flaherty, Laws, Barneson and Wells. In 1957 he added a
second car, which was actually the last built, and numbered DB3S/11 because
it was a continuation of the works-spec run (twin-plug head, disc brakes
etc) rather than a production type.
During 1956 two of the
works cars (and possibly more?) had been updated with the wider and flatter
nose as seen in the pictures of car #54. Carveth's second car (DB3S/11)
was also given this treatment. I would guess that your pictures show
the two Carveth cars in 1957 or 1958."
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