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mark-donohue

The Garage on Flickr: Mark Donohue at Daytona

January 7, 2009

I’m suffering a brain cramp this evening, so I thought I’d peruse The Garage on Flickr to see what fun stuff has been submitted recently. As so often happens, I’m drawn to the history offered up by friend of The Garage, Lou Galanos.
The shot above shows Mark Donohue in the Kirk F White/Roger Penske Ferrari [...]

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Cheating? Tell me it ain’t so!

January 11, 2008

Any seasoned racer worth his salt will tell you rules are written to be broken or should I say tested. Half the challenge of racing is figuring out what the other team is doing. In the days of Trans-Am and Can-Am series the rule book was still in the process of being written and as [...]

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Trans Am Countdown

January 2, 2007

After watching the Chaparral video, I got wondering if there was any cool Trans Am video floating around the youtubes. I found this restored clip of a film called Trans Am Countdown that was filmed at the Daytona 24 Hour race in 1970. The are some great shots of the Javelin and cool interviews with [...]

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McBearen Sports Racer

November 1, 2006

Back in the golden days of road racing, it was all about the special. Racers and fabricators would cobble together all sorts of sports racers, at home in their garage. Most of them were one offs, and many of those went on to become winning machines that are part of the fabric of motor racing [...]

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My dad can beat your dad!

April 22, 2006

I found this cool Sunoco ad in the program for the Mac’s Continental program from Mosport in September 1970. I think this pic of”Captain Nice” pretty much sums up the reputation Mark Donohue had. A family guy who also happened to be one of the best racers who ever lived.
The Mac’s Continental weekend featured Formula [...]

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1973 Mosport CanAm program

April 7, 2006

The image on this program became an icon in Canadian beer and motorsports marketing and I think they used the format for several years. I still have a beer opener with the logo on it. Labatt’s, along with Players were the top supporters of motorsports in Canada and of Canadian driver’s around the world.The front [...]

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