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Racing 912 Drivers - Cheer them on

DP 912 racer at Riverside Raceway,  2/79; can you identify the driver and team?  Photo by Bob Garrett.

Jeff Wayland - '66 912,   SCCA EP class, many regional wins, no DNFs in 4 yrs 

Jack Frost - '66 912 EP1, VARA

Mike Lemmon - '66 912, VARAC

Larry Bartholomew - '66 912 EP

Tom Sutan - '66 912, VAR (EP) and POOCH (AP)

Bill Todd - '66 912, Full race; 1973 RS look-alike

Andy Keller - '66 912, Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing

David Hoffman, '66  912 #66, Guards Red, Set up for Vintage Racing, Races with RMVR, LOL, VSCA

Joe Russo - '67 912

John Cox, '67 912, PCA club races, SCCA and Vintage Drivers Club of America events

Ralph Veit, Kiowa, Colorado - '67 912 DP

Dave Atkinson, Toledo, Ohio - '67 912, VSCDA

Rod Vessel - California - '67 912 VARA

Andy Keller, CPE - Colorado - '67 912, Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing

Rich Lambert - Washington, USA - '68 912, SOVREN

Jim Plavan - Irvine, California - '68 912 DP

Ricardo R. Floirendo - Manila, Philippines - '68 912 Vintage Racing at meets of the  Manila Sports Car Club at Subic Raceway

Gregg Crandall - Lynchburg, Virginia - 912 EP, 1997 SCCA National Championship Race, Mid-Ohio

John Benton, Downey, Ca. - '68 912 at Willow Springs Raceway, California

Jeff & Mike Saltman, Glendale, Az. & Las Vegas, Nv. - Historic Porsche Racing Group (HPRG), which is part of HMSA

John Thornton's "912R" on display at the 2002 West Coast 912 Rendevous.  John's 912R is on the cover of Excellence magazine Issue 118, April 2003, grab a copy and enjoy this great article!

Rally

Tor-S. "Speed-racer" Hansen - '65 912 coupe - "Mon, 7 Jun 1999 - Oyvind Rothe and I came in 2nd place in the last weekends race here in Norway "The Porsche/Castrol Cup Round trip Telemark". We raced against a 911 Carreras(993), a 914/6 (3.2L SC), a 911 RUF-Turbo, two 911SC and a 944 Turbo. The race was on public roads in the "Monte Carlo" style."

Andy Daniels - '66 912 coupe - Alton, Hampshire, England; prepared for historic rally

'67 912 Bahama Yellow coupe of James Kraus, entered in the Rallye de Paris March 4-5, 2000

Henri Degon; '(67 model year); 42 km and more and more; Light Ivory; fully restored and equipped for historic rallye, and few interesting option and equipments : recaro 356 seats, nardi steering wheel etc...... somes pics of my 66' 912 from france. soon, henri DEGON Grenoble, France

Robert Coucher, London, United Kingdom; '65 912, Very original car but fitted with a 1720cc engine, with 44 Weber carbs, extractor exhaust, bucket seats and harnesses, ready for fast road-race use on European historic rallies.

Autocrossing

Bill Newton; 1968 912 Autocross Car - Autocrosses in Northern California: many wins in GGR/PCA Class Bx; photo taken 11/13/05 PCA/BMW AX at Infineon paddock. Placed 6th out of 44 drivers.

Peter Baldauf - '67 912 EP

Eric Nichols and his 1967 912 at an autocross in Massachusetts in 2003.  He has been autocrossing this car since 1988, and is an instructor for autocross.

Brian Ruggerio - '67 912

Duane Bibby - '68 912 "Nemo"

Dick Snyder - '69 912, P3 1st in class - '93 Parade

Jim Cole - '69 912 with 2.4L 914 engine - VIR overall Autocross champ and two time 2nd place champ

Joe Des Rosiers - '76 912E

Ed O'Sullivan '69 912 autocrossing at Qualcom stadium in San Diego.

Scott Jocham about to race his 67 912 in an SCCA event 1/03.  He won a first in the novice division.  [Photo by Ken Fish]

Hill Climbing

Gary Bayless - '69 912, 6/1995 Virginia City, Nevada Hill Climb ; "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 - And we will be at Virginia City this weekend with the 912(69). Hope to get a lot of runs in and be faster than alot of those italian cars!!!!! Regards, Gary Bayless"

David Peterson purchased his '68 912 with De lorto Carbs from from a 914 enthusiast, he believes it was raced on Mt. Washington for the "Climb to the Clouds" Hill climbs in New Hampshire.

Hall of Fame

Sobieslaw Zasada of Poland - 1967 European Rally Championship driving his 912 and the 1967 Argentine Grand Prix 2000km Road race in his 911!

Dick Lovell - 912 EP racer in the '60s

Phil Van Buskirk - 912 vintage racing

Rich Lambert has been researching the early 912 racers.... 

From: Rich Lambert; red912@acmenet.com; Hi Rick, The following are some combined e-mails I received from Ron Cummings, who was there in the 60's...Check out the web page Ron talks about! Rich
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Rich,

I thought you 912 folks might like reading Pat Tobin's story on racing speedsters in the Los Angeles area.

You can get there by going to http://www.speedsters.com then, from their home page, click on information center then click on speedster racing in the 60s. Also, they have a lot of information that might be of interest to 912 owners. Things like manuals that are on the market.

Dick lovell is mentioned as well as his 912 driver Denny Harrison. Denny usually raced with number 49, the same number he used on the Lovell 912. So far as I can find Lovell's 912 was driven, by Denny, in four weekends of racing resulting in two Sunday race wins and possibly two dnfs.

My friend, Dale Hersh, is not mentioned but our car was sponsored by Roger Bursch's Scientific automotive, usually number 19. Dale won the Pacific Coast Division E production championship in 1965 but blew up his motor at the Daytona run offs. I remember the fire that is mentioned in the article. I was standing in the pits. We knew Pat Tobin quite well.

In 1969 Floyd Clymer Publications published the Porsche 912 Handbook and Service Manual with assistance from Lee Price and Dick Lovell. On page D there is a short story and photo of Lovell's 912. Denny Harrison is sitting in the car with Denny's number 49 painted on racer. The story claims 4 wins and 2 second place finishes in 8 starts. This includes Saturday starts as well as Sunday races ( 4 actual events ). The car was sold after only a few races. We always thought it funny that Lovell
would consider Saturday's events in the story.

Lee Price was the mechanic that set up several other fairly successful 912's in the Los Angeles area, including a car sponsored by Justice Brothers automobile products. Price worked on everything from the mighty midgets to a 906 Porsche before giving it all up to become an independent big rig truck driver.

My friend, Dale Hersh, later raced this car as a 911 racer and won several SCCA races with it in C production. Dale sold the shell of this car in Dec. 1999 when he closed down his Porsche salvage yard.
My previous e:mail mentions Pat Tobin's internet story about racing Speedsters. He claims using 40 thousands over pistons in his car. If this is true his car would have been illegal. I think this was a mistake because I am sure Tobin did not cheat.

According to Dale Hersh, Dick Lovell was living in Monterey, California up to about 4 or 5 years ago. I did a "people search" on yahoo and came up with 5 Lovell's in Monterey but no Richards.
Ron Cummings

From: Rich Lambert;  Hi Rick, Have you seen the new issue of 911 & Porsche World magazine? There's an article on 912's. There's also a thing about rallying that mentions Zasada and... an article about racing in GB that's written by a guy with the same name as me...weird. Rich

From: Rich Lambert; Hi Rick, Still trying to track down Dick Lovell....  Your note got me thinking about the 912 driver, Zasada. After about 50 web searches I came up with Sobieslaw Zasada, who still races in rallys.   There's a web page devoted to him, unfortunately it's all in Polish. The web page is at http://free.polbox.pl/z/zastawny/zasada/zasada.html   Although I don't read Polish, there is definately a reference to the Argentine Grand Prix and the European Rally Championship in 1967. I've expended this much energy on this, I'll try to get in touch with him.  Maybe he can give me some suspension tips! Rich

From: Rich Lambert; Do you have the "Porsche 912 Handbook"? I have an old (1969) version that shows a good picture of Dick Lovell sitting in his 912 EP race car. There's also a short bio on his 912 racing career.   Apparently he was fairly successful racing a 912 back in the late 60's in California.  Rich

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