Guessing Game

[HealeyRick]

This is a fascinating photo:

Try and identify the location and the guy kneeling in the red shirt. I'm probably going to have to give some hints but maybe someone can hit it with a WAG.

 

[PSJ]

Looks hot there! I have no reasonable basis for making a guess, so I'll just go for Riverside Raceway. I look forward to other's (informed!) opinions and guesses!

Phil

 

[Billm]

or Willow Springs?
BillM

 

[HealeyRick]

Looks hot there! I have no reasonable basis for making a guess, so I'll just go for Riverside Raceway. I look forward to other's (informed!) opinions and guesses!

Phil

Great guess! You are correct. Next clue:

 

[GregW]

The footwear says Reid to me.

 

[BN2guy]

Looks like it's ol' Shel at his driving school.

Bill
BN2guy

 

[HealeyRick]

Looks like it's ol' Shel at his driving school.

Bill
BN2guy

It is the Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving
(nice work!) but not Shel. Another clue:

 

[BN2guy]

My second guess is Pete Brock (a few years later).

Bill

 

[HealeyRick]

My second guess is Pete Brock (a few years later).

Bill

And I had so many more clues to go, like these:

The Shelby school was the first U.S driving school and used the bugeye as a trainer:

https://home.roadrunner.com/~fsheff/rirpictsb.htm

More on the school here:

https://johnstraub.blogspot.com/2011/09/americas-first-racing-school-carroll.html

Be interesting to know the history of the white Healey.

 

[Healey_Z]

Great story Rick. I had the pleasure to chat with Pete Brock at a Shelby convention a number of years ago. A fascinating and wonderful person.