Start of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix Race, Riverside International Raceway, October 1964

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Artifact Overview

Photographer Dave Friedman captured and preserved auto racing history. His work -- and his collection of works by other photographers -- documents key races, cars, drivers, and teams. Race weekend at the 1964 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix included a three-hour amateur production-car Enduro and Formula Libre races. Parnelli Jones captured Sunday's premier 200-mile Grand Prix in a Cooper King Cobra Ford.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Date Made

11 October 1964

Subject Date

11 October 1964

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.7495.24

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 0.875 in
Width: 1.375 in

Inscriptions

Handwritten on back of contact sheet in red ink: 10 Handwritten on back of contact sheet in pencil: 9B / SCG