| (7-29-08) From historian Ron Cummings:
"While this is Jack McAfee's usual number, that is either Kunstle
or possibly Ginther driving the car! My guess is Kunstle. All three
drove Edgar's Spyders at one time or another. That is certainly not
big Jack."
(7-29-08) From Jack McAfee's son Rex McAfee:
"Not only is that not Jack driving, but I don't even think that is
an Edgar car. See how both of the "8"s on the door don't match?
I believe this was somebody else's number 8 sypder that was modified that
weekend to read "88". I've got tons of photos of Edgars spyders,
and none of them have that red triangle in the front either."
(7-31-08) From your webmaster:
"I think I solved this mystery. The problem was getting the
first and second race events at Paramount mixed up. At the FIRST Paramount
running Ginther won the Under 1500cc. main event and was 4th in the Over
1500cc. main in von Neumann's #211 Porsche Spyder.
At the SECOND Paramount running in November 1956 Miles won both the
Under 1500cc. and Over 1500cc. main events in the Cooper-Porsche.
KUNSTLE was 2nd in both events in the #88 Porsche Spyder. (It is
indeed KUNSTLE in Tibbetts' photo.)
My confusion came from this photo showing Ginther
winning at Santa Barbara in the very similar John Edgar #88 Porsche
on May 19, 1957. |