LETTERS

SEEING JOHN HINDLE’S LETTER REGARDING A STOPLIGHT GRAND PRIX INVOLVING a GTO Ferrari [April] dislodged an almost-forgotten similar event, showing how times have really changed. A group of friends and I had decided to see the Can-Am race in 1966 at Bridgehampton, and one of the favourite evening activities was to scour the local gas station garages for race cars (Bridgehampton had no on-track garages). The dessert after that crawl was to visit local bar parking lots to see the visiting cars.

I was looking over a particularly nice silver Aston DB6 when I heard the unmistakeable sound of V12s hard at work. Streaking by the bar (on a two-lane secondary road) was a liveried 1964 Ferrari GTO racing a Ferrari 250 LM. Using both lanes, mind you. Both were easily into triple figures. As we were remarking on that amazing sight, minutes later, lo and behold, both cars roll into the lot. The