1960 Claresholm Sports Car Race - Historic 16mm film

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Canada Motor Sports From the Calgary Sports Car Club collection by kind permission Shawn Bishop. www.cscc.ab.ca 1960 Sports car racing at Claresholm Airport, former RCAF WWII air base #15 Service Flight Training School June 9 1941- March 1945 and #3 Flight Training School 1951-58. Here's a remarkable historical piece. 16mm color film footage covering a 1960 sports car race on the old runways. Poster states: "A Championship Event - Prairie Region Canadian Automobile Sport Club" "Refreshments available on the ground" "Sponsored by the Calgary Sports(?) Car Club" Any help identifying cars or people would be greatly appreciated,though I suspect it could be a challenge. Thanks in advance. A very big thank you to Shawn Bishop and the CSCC! Looks like we have a few cars identified: 1:20 Red no. 34 Volvo 544. Exhaust cut under car. 1:28 red and white car ahead of Corvette. Ford Anglia. 1:38 Light blue or white MGA 1:46 MGA with racing windscreen 2:05 Alfa Romeo Spider 2:09 Austin healey 100/6 2:13 Triumph TR3 2:18 Austin Healey Sprite (Frogeye) 2:21 Austin Healye Sprite (Frogeye) 2:34 White no. 22 MGA Coupe Thanks to Mc4060!

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