1958 Historical Photos
1958 Season Photos
Shelton Airport Racetrack - Shelton, WA
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SHELTON AIRPORT RACETRACK
The 1958 season saw most road racing in the northwest done at Shelton Airport. Most of our photos from that year thus are also from Shelton. It was the end of racing of Abbotsford. See "Long Straights and Hairpin Turns" for more photos and stories from that year.Ed Buck photo -
Team Empire’s Ralph Ormsbee wheels his HWM-Chev through Shelton’s Turn One.
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Jim Rattenbury, D-Jaguar, Shelton. SCCA Seafair Trophy Race Turn Nine. August 3.Ed Buck photo
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Paul Nau, Lotus 11 Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race Turn Nine. August 3Ed Buck photo
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Pete Lovely, Lotus 11 Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race Nine. August 3Ed Buck photo
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George Keck, Fiat-Abarth Double Bubble Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race paddock. August 3Ed Buck photo
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Driver unknown - Lotus 9 SCCA Seafair Trophy Race Nine. August 3Ed Buck photo
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Various Corvettes and Ray Rairdon’s M-B 300SL in Turn One at a Shelton race. Rairdon always got them in the end that year as the Vette brakes faded.Rudow Collection photo
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Tom Meehan - Pooper Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race. August 3Ed Buck photo
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Tom Meehan - Pooper Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race. August 3Ed Buck photo
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Tom Carstens, Knobbly Lister-Chev Shelton SCCA Seafair Trophy Race Pit Straight. August 3
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Harry Eyerly’s Crosley Spcl. Notice drill holes in engine for lightness.Ted Fellows photo
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One of the most brutal but brittle cars of the late 50s, the Chrysler-Kurtis owned by Dick Hahn. Here being driven by Lew Florence at the Seafair Trophy race, the car was once again a DNF.Ed Buck photo
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One of the many hand-built B.C. specials, the Fairthorpe Electron of Arleigh Pilkey leads the MGA of fellow Canadian John Hall at the Seafair Trophy RaceEd Buck photo
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Martin Rudow, content provider of this website, checks his camera in his father’s pit at the Abbotsford Swan Song. Hal Rudow prepares to go out in his XK-120Vince Howlett archives photo
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