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[Jerry Entin]

 

Art Huttinger with his final Competition car the former Buck Fulp - Scorpion

 

It is with great sadness that we have to report that Art Huttinger left us yesterday, April 2, for that race track in the sky, the result of heart failure.

 

The Montana Cowboy lived to be 91 years old and he was still active until the last moment. According to Art's wife Donna, he admitted to having lived a rich life, and that "the bucket list is full by now."

 

God speed, old buddy!

 

all research: Willem Oosthoek

 

 

Edited by Jerry Entin, 04 April 2016 - 01:01.

[E1pix]

Thanks for letting us know, Jerry.

RIP.

[Doug Nye]

Art was very gracious and helpful to me when I was researching Listers in the US and I am sorry to read this news.  But what a great innings he evidently played...one of the classical good old boys...  Respect.

 

DCN

[ensign14]

 According to Art's wife Donna, he admitted to having lived a rich life, and that "the bucket list is full by now."

 

 

[Jerry Entin]

Art Huttinger lining up his Lister/Chevy next to the Meister Brauser Scarabs during Saturday's qualifier for the Daytona National in November 1960.

He is seen talking to Bob Carnes, who had entered his latest design, the Bocar Stiletto.

 

Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 04 April 2016 - 22:50.

[Jerry Entin]

Art's Lister/Chevy on its trailer back home in Windermere, Florida. Art bought the car from Ed Cantrell in 1960. Cantrell had bought it from first owner Joe Maybee of Texas the year before.

 

Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 04 April 2016 - 22:56.

[Jerry Entin]

Art Huttinger and co-driver Ed Cantrell with Cantrell's Corvette Sting Ray before the start of the 1963 Daytona Continental 3 Hours. Behind them are the two Cunningham E-types.

 

Since Art was 6 feet tall, Cantrell must have been a true giant. The entry retired after only 32 laps with a locked rearend.

 

Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 06 April 2016 - 03:04.

[Jerry Entin]

Getting ready for the start of the 1962 Daytona Continental 3 Hours, in which Art's Lister/Chevy would crack its manifold.

 

 

Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection

Edited by Jerry Entin, 07 April 2016 - 01:38.

[Jack-the-Lad]

It's pretty impressive that the Stingray was able to out qualify* the Cunningham E-Types, given that the Corvette must have had very little development up to that time.

*I assume that the relative grid positions shown in the pictures are how the cars started the race. Or was it pushed up front just for the picture?

Edited by Jack-the-Lad, 07 April 2016 - 05:20.

[Jerry Entin]

Jack-the-Lad,

 

The Daytona Continental grid positions were still based on engine size that year, so the Sting Rays were lined up before the Cobras, E-types and GTOs.

[Jack-the-Lad]

Jack-the-Lad,
 
The Daytona Continental grid positions were still based on engine size that year, so the Sting Rays were lined up before the Cobras, E-types and GTOs.

Thanks, Jerry. I'd plain forgotten about that. But what was the rationale?

[RA Historian]

AS I recall, most sports car endurance races were gridded by displacement back then.

[Jerry Entin]

Tom:  

The same rationale used for many years at Le Mans, Sebring and the Nassau in their WSCC events, whatever it was.

 

all research: Willem Oosthoek

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 April 2016 - 15:31.

[Jack-the-Lad]

I swear I'd forgotten all about that. Does anyone know the year they decided to form a grid based on qualifying times?

(Sorry for taking the thread so far afield. No disrespect to Art intended.)

[Jerry Entin]

Pensacola, Florida, October 1961: Art acknowledges photographer Bob Bellows, while on his way to victory in his newly refurbished Lister/Chevy during the one-hour feature. He beat Buck Fulp in his Ferrari Dino 246S.

 

 

 To clarify the text in Post 13, Nassau was not a WSCC event of course, but they did use the engine size formula to line up the grid for the Nassau Trophy. Staggered starts as used in the Mille Miglia and the Targa Florio were also based on engine size, with the bigger-engined entries starting last.

 

Photo: from Sports Car Racing in the South, Volume 3

Edited by Jerry Entin, 09 April 2016 - 02:43.

[Tim Murray]

The last Le Mans 24 Hour race where the starting order was determined by engine displacement was in 1962. From 1963 the starting order was based on practice times.

RIP Mr Huttinger.