| Riverside,
February 2-3 1963 -- 3
The A-B Production car
race at Riverside in February, 1963, is legendary. Dave
MacDonald and Ken Miles appeared
in new Shelby-entered Cobras
and ran away from a strong field of equally new Corvette Stingrays.
Miles stopped in the pits while running 2nd, had a drink of water, then
charged back into the race and passed all the Stingrays again!
| Here's Miles in his very
early Cobra.
As the 1963 season continued,
the Cobras sat lower, wore progressively wider tires, and sprouted huge
fender flares to cover them. |
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| Ron Cummings remembers
this race:
"After jumping into an
early lead, Miles pitted for no reason. He let the entire field go by before
re-entering the race. The crowd was jumping up and down as he stunned
the Chevrolet drivers by easily passing the entire field to finish second
behind MacDonald's other team Cobra. The Corvette people were completely
demoralized." |
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| A month later, March
2-3, 1963, the same group of "Big Production" cars appeared at a short
course using the parking lot at Dodger Stadium.
Dave MacDonald and Ken
Miles again finished 1-2 in factory-entered Cobras.
In this photo, Dick Guldstrand
in Stingray #56 leads Bob Bondurant
in #614 through one of the tight chicane-like corners on the 1.3 mile course.
Behind the first pair, an out-of-shape Ronnie
Bucknum in the ex-MacDonald Stingray #00 leads #6 Paul
Reinhart and #298 Ken Miles in the super-fast Cobra.
Some of these drivers
(and others) got together in 1991 for a
"Corvette
Reunion". |
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