I just can’t get enough of Lou Galanos’ photos from the golden days of endurance racing in Florida. This shot is of the John Greenwood Team Corvette taken at the 1973 24 hours of Daytona. Driven by Don Yenko and Bob Johnson, the car did not finish the event.

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I really need to delve into the Flickr pool more often to liven things up here in The Garage, so I can offer a bit more variety. The problem is that there are so many great images, and yet I continually go back to the work of Flickr user Nigel Smuckatelli.

His real name is Louis Galanos and he spent some time toting a lens around Sebring and Daytona back in the golden years. It’s fortunate for us that Louis took the time, because his work is just incredible.

The car above is the Porsche 917k campaiged by the Martini & Rossi team for Helmut Marko and Rudi Lins in the 1971 24 hours of Daytona. The car did not finish.

Be sure to visit The Garage on Flickr, where there are just too many great photos to show here.

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For years I wondered about that suave English dude on Legends of Motorsport on Speed TV. Here was this guy I had never heard of, who seemed to know absolutely everything about racing and yet I had never heard of him. Apparently, I had missed this little bit of racing history, as Alain De Cadenet was a true gentleman racer with some pretty solid credentials.

Newfound friend of The Garage, Lou Galanos was at Daytona in 1971 when De Cadenet co-drove this NART Ferrari 312P/71 to a 5th place finish along with team boss Luigi Chinetti and Nestor Garcia-Veiga.

This is just one of Lou’s huge collection of images taken at Daytona back in the day. You can see more of them on Flickr where he posts as Nigel Smuckatelli.

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Some racers never seem to slow down especially when their still young. California’s Best Racing team member, Will Faules is one of them. Click here to follow along as we keep up to date with Team No Hot Wire as they head out to enjoy the KONI Challenge FRESH FROM FLORIDA 200 and then Will will be crewing for THE RACERS GROUP Porsches for the 2008 24 Hours of Daytona. Do these damn kids ever stay at home?

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Years ago, in the so called Golden Age of racing, race car drivers were much different than they are today. The sport itself was obviously much different as well. Drivers in those days were truly racers, who would and could race anything with wheels on it. The car builders (they weren’t really manufacturers then) would often build different types cars for different series for them, rather than focusing on just one type of racing.

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