| Wally Barnitz
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I just found the negatives
for these two photos showing Wally and his E-Type Jaguar in the pits
at Del Mar on Dec. 9-10, 1961. I didn't have prints of these photos
in my collection which tells me that I probably gave them to Wally back
in 1961.
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| Wally in the pits at Del
Mar. A brilliant and cultured man, Wally died much too young of a
congenital heart defect. After racing, Wally flew high-performance
gliders until he had a serious accident.
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| Wally ready to go out on
track. Your webmaster had the pleasure as a 14 year old to ride with
Wally in this E-Type from the Monterey Peninsula to Kent, Washington where
Wally raced in the July 28-29, 1962 "SeaFair" event at Pacific Raceways.
A radiator hose failure caused a DNF but didn't prevent us from a high-speed
open-exhaust run back to California.
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| This faded print from 1961
shows Wally in the Del Mar "esses". The tight course was laid out
with cones and haybales on the parking lot of the Del Mar horse racing
track.
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