Fred Lewis US motorsport photographer
Fred is a true motorsport enthusiast who has been photographing top tier American racing for more than 50 years. I first got in touch with him back in 2014 when he supplied some great early Seventies photographs which he had taken for the feature I wrote for Classic American on Neil Merry’s Tony DeLorenzo ‘Budd’ replica Corvette racer. Since then, he has provided me with many more of his photos for various features which I have written. With the dreaded coronavirus sweeping America, Fred had not been to any race meetings last year, so we thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane and for him to recount some of his tales.
He told me: “I was born in 1947 in Greensboro, North Carolina, just a few miles from where I live now. When I was nine we moved to Florida. My father was interested in big American cars and used to read Mechanix Illustrated and some other car magazines. So I read them too. My first motorsport event was when I was 10 or 11 and my dad took me, at my insistence, to an ‘outlaw’ (i.e. non-sanctioned) Saturday night drag race at nearby Branan.
