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Dave MacDonald Driving Shelby King Cobra CM/1/63 in Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, Riverside, California, October 1963

THF136959 / Dave MacDonald Driving Shelby King Cobra CM/1/63 in Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, Riverside, California, October 1963
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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. At the 1963 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, Bob Bondurant won the GT One Hour race in a Shelby American Cobra, while Dave MacDonald captured the main 200-mile Grand Prix piloting a Shelby American Cooper King Cobra.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Date Made

13 October 1963

Subject Date

13 October 1963

Creators

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.N.753.1.30

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 0.875 in
Width: 1.375 in

Dave MacDonald Driving Shelby King Cobra CM/1/63 in Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, Riverside, California, October 1963