| Peter Culkin
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| Santa Barbara in 1960. Culkin leads Buford Lane in the #614 Corvette later made famous by Bob Bondurant. Lew Spencer follows in Rene Pellegrini's AC Bristol later driven by Ronnie Bucknum. (Photo by Bill Norcross) |
| Historian Ron Cummings
remembers Buford Lane...
"Buford Lane drove Corvettes for Washburn Chevrolet, from Santa Barbara, before retiring. At Willow Springs, I believe
in 1960, Dave MacDonald drove his first
The two of them rubbed
fenders the whole race. On the last lap at turn one, a very dangerous spot
in those days, both cars spun off into the gullies and soft sand.
Why the cars did not flip over only God knows. MacDonald restarted
his motor first and went on to win. Both drivers where so far ahead
of Bondurant and some other hot Corvette drivers that I and
Buford Lane got out of his car, after the race, and I never heard of him again. Bob Bondurant got the Washburn ride. MacDonald's '57 Vette had chrome steel wheels, a chrome roll bar, tuck and roll upholstery and some fuzzy stuff all over the dashboard. We thought he was a real flake to show up at a road race with a car like that. Ha!" Ron
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| Here Culkin leads the
two Jaguars of #16 Frank Saraga and #64 Hap Richardson. That's Bob
Bondurant in the #711 Corvette. This looks to me like Turn #8 on
the "Long Course" at Riverside. (Photo by Bill Norcross)
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