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[JacnGille]

For those of you with autograph collections, do you display them? Mine have been sitting in a box for 30+ years and I'm thinking of having at least some of them framed to hang in my studio/office.

Very few of mine are on photos. The majority of mine are in my '76 Autocourse that I've been draggin around since new.

[Bloggsworth]

Seeing this thread made me think, there must be some 60+ year olds looking at their autograph books and thinking "Who the f***k is Jo Briggs?" If you were in the paddock, wearing a pale blue Dunlop racing overalls, youngsters woud rush up and ask if you could sign their autograph books...

[DogEarred]

I remember reporters from local newspapers coming up to drivers asking their names, occupation and taking their photos.

Not because they were writing articles but in case you were killed - they would have something for their paper!

[RA Historian]

I have been rather specific in my autograph gathering. I have never gotten autographs simply for the sake of autographs.  Rather, only in one area, and that is books. I try to get a driver's autograph in a book about that driver. For example, I have books autographed by Mario Andretti, Jim Hall, Augie Pabst, John Fitch, and others. A particular pursuit is to get the World Champion to autograph my copy of Autocourse for the year that driver was the Champion. I have over a dozen, but I sure wish that Nelson PIquet, Alain Prost, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton would come to my area. That would take care of a bundle!

 

Tom

[Tom Glowacki]

I have been rather specific in my autograph gathering. I have never gotten autographs simply for the sake of autographs.  Rather, only in one area, and that is books. I try to get a driver's autograph in a book about that driver. For example, I have books autographed by Mario Andretti, Jim Hall, Augie Pabst, John Fitch, and others. A particular pursuit is to get the World Champion to autograph my copy of Autocourse for the year that driver was the Champion. I have over a dozen, but I sure wish that Nelson PIquet, Alain Prost, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton would come to my area. That would take care of a bundle!

 

Tom

When the Lotus-Fords came to Milwaukee in the summer of 1963, I got Colin Chapman, Jim Clark, Dan Gurney, Bob Marshman, Jim Hurtubise, Ralph Moody, and Don White.   Those are framed and hanging on my wall.  Since then, Phil Hill, Sam Posey, Tony Adamowicz, Brian Redman, Augie Pabst, and just yesterday, Johnny Rutherford at the Millers at the Milwaukee Mile event.  Much like RA Historian, since the 1963 orgy, the autographs have mainly been in books.  Next week, I'm hunting for David Hobbs, his autobiography in my hand, at Road America.