| Red Faris was an older
man than some of the others, but that didn't slow him down.
He had many battles with
his close friends Paul Reinhart
and
Bill Sherwood.
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| Other Corvettes
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In Northern California,
these two drivers often challenged top contenders Bill
Sherwood,
Paul Reinhart,
and Don Wester.
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| Red Faris was an older
man than some of the others, but that didn't slow him down.
He had many battles with
his close friends Paul Reinhart
and
Bill Sherwood.
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| Red Faris's son Bill remembers
his dad:
"I found your web site by searching Google for"Red Faris". Red (Elmer) was my Dad. I watched him race his cars over those years. His first "racer" was a Triumph TR3 which he entered in autocrosses. The Triumph wasn't fast enough for him so he bought a Corvette..a 1958, I believe...double headlights which he covered over with pointed fiberglass and called "Marilyn Monroes". I was at the Laguna Seca in 1961 when your movies were shot. Lots of names there that later became famous.....Jim Hall, Roger Penske...and of course Red's good friends, Sherwood and Reinhart. I'll look at the rest of your site. I noticed Riverside.....I was there to watch Carroll Shelby introduce his Cobras with Dave MacDonald and Ken Miles. My Dad was running his Corvette and I watched the Cobras lap the whole field only to be called in by Shelby....then sent back out to win the race. Great racing days!!" |
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Danno Raffetto, shown
here on the straightaway at Vacaville on Aug. 19-20, 1961, campaigned his
bright Orange Corvette in the early 1960s.
He later bought the
Ferrari-Chevy
from Faris, and raced it with some success in 1963-64.
Video! Faris and Raffetto in action at Laguna Seca! Movie #6 Movie #9 |
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