![]() Post war he worked for Bill Stroppe preparing the Bob Estes entered Lincolns for the Carrera PanamericaMexican road race. Check out the ‘Reventlow Automobiles Inc’ logo on the cars scuttle (Popperfoto) He was a remarkable leader and brave soldier awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Medal and a Purple Heart for heroic acts in 1944, he was shot in Luxembourg and ‘mustered out’ of the army in 1945.Ĭhuck Daigh in his Scarab F1 car during the teams fraught 1960 GP season, very wet! place and date unrecorded. He served as a paratrooper in the ‘517th Regiment/82nd Airborne’ during WW II seeing action in France, Belgium and Germany, including fighting in ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ in the Ardennes Forest where he was later to race a Scarab at Spa-Francorchamps in 1960. Prior to enlisting in the Army he worked for Morrison-Knudsen to build the Long Beach breakwater. Both he and his older brother were typical ‘hot-rodders’, prior to WW II they ran at the Dry Lakes, one of the cars the marriage of an A-Model Ford chassis and Alfa Romeo engine. Whilst still at High School, he ‘ran’ a Union Oil garage in Long Beach close to his home in Paramount. Pingelly Great South… on Tomlinson’s 1939 Lobetha…Ĭhuck Daigh rumbles his big Ford Thunderbird across Daytona Beach during the February 1956 Speed Trials…īorn in Long Beach, California on 29 November 1923 he commenced fiddling with cars at his fathers garage business. Neil Batey on Pingelly Great Southern Speed…
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