Several years ago we brought you this fantastic site devoted to photographs of ’50s and ’60s sports car racing, predominantly...
Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late ’50s to go...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner...
Photo: Tom Schultz Affable and friendly are two words often used to describe Harry Heuer, but on the track he...
Meister Bräuser: Harry Heuer’s Championship Racing Team by Tom Schultz In early 1959, young Harry Heuer, Executive Vice President of the Peter Hand Brewery, Chicago, Illinois, caught the racing bug. He immediately bought a race carand entered it in the May 1959 Meadowdale USAC professional race. At the same time,...
