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    Sound Your Horn

    Jun 12, 2023 2 minutes

    Revved up over race cars

    Thanks to for the article on the Briggs Cunningham/Collier brothers Cadillacs that ran at the 1950 Le Mans race. Back in the early 1980s, Briggs Cunningham had a museum in Huntington Beach, Calif. I was fortunate to have seenstre” race cars there. If I could own any old car in existence, I would want the Cunningham 1950 Cadillac Series 61 hardtop that raced at Le Mans. Seeing a Cadillac with numbers on the door just seems slightly incongruous, and fun. Incidentally, back in the mid 1950s, Tom McCahill mentioned in his column in that he (had) owned a Cadillac Series 61 with stick, and claimed that it was one of a handful of such cars.

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