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[Jerry Entin]

Duncan Forlong and his AC
This photo is from around 1960 or 1961.

In our series about SCCA drivers in the Southeast we are about to start one on Duncan Forlong, one of the top Florida drivers of the late 50s. He was from Tampa and ran mostly AC Bristols. During the March 9, 1959 Regional at Boca Raton he stunned the racing crowds by taking his AC to victory in the feature race, beating Italian exotics such as George Koehne's Maserati 200SI, Lucky Casner's Ferrari 500TR and John Phipps 1.5-liter OSCA in the rain.

Duncan's son Doug Forlong has sent us the first photos for the thread.


photo Forlong family collection
all research Willem Oosthoek

Edited by Jerry Entin, 12 January 2010 - 02:48.

[Jerry Entin]

Front view of Duncans AC Ace
The fellow across from Duncan Forlong in the straw hat is Joe Sheppard, "The Tampa Hotshoe."


Duncan Forlong recieving the Checkered Flag.
This black and white car is an A.C. Ace at Dunellon Park Road race. The car is all black with a lot of tape on the bonnet. The man with the checkered flag is Vic Terrill.

photos Forlong family collection
all research Doug Forlong

[Jerry Entin]

Duncan Forlong in his Gemini II Formula car.


photo Forlong family collection.

[Lotus11Register]

This photo of Duncan Forlong comes to us from his friend Joe Sheppard, via Joe's friend Jack Shea. By all accounts Duncan was a very well-liked racer.



Photo from the collection of John P. Shea.

[hatrat]

A photo of Duncan in the Gemini Mk2 in El Salvador - this car is now in New Zealand.

[Jerry Entin]

Two of the top Florida AC/Bristol racers at work in the November 1957 Sam Collier Memorial at Fort Pierce: Duncan Forlong [#55] and Lonnie Rix.

 

Research: Willem Oosthoek

Photo: Bob bellows

Edited by Jerry Entin, 20 October 2013 - 21:29.

[Jerry Entin]

Jack Shea has just informed us that Duncan Forlong died more than a year ago, on November 26, 2015, a result of kidney failure. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, on September 10, 1926, Duncan moved to Tampa, Florida, to become one of the best AC/Bristol pilots around the Southeast in the late fifties. He began his race career with an Austin-Healey 100 and drove his final race at Daytona in a Porsche S90 in 1966.