Comments on: Frank Lance, Lonestar Master Mechanic https://velocetoday.com/frank-lance-lonestar-master-mechanic/ The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts Wed, 01 May 2024 22:10:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom https://velocetoday.com/frank-lance-lonestar-master-mechanic/comment-page-1/#comment-90823 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:49:50 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=151451#comment-90823 My early life was quite similar to Frank’s.
Sports car shop as a 17yr. old Gofer, where race cars were housed. (550 RS Spyder).
Joined the Army and managed to hitch hike to Sebring 12hr in 1959.
Saw Nurburgring 1000km in 1961.
After college went to Kar-Kraft and FoMoCo in Detroit.
Still have great memories of that time.

]]> By: Willem Oosthoek https://velocetoday.com/frank-lance-lonestar-master-mechanic/comment-page-1/#comment-90816 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:28:36 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=151451#comment-90816 Incidentally, Lon, at Midland a driver by the name Lon Day finished the feature in 1oth overall [CM3], at the wheel of a Chevy-powered Healey #110. Could he have been your dad?

]]> By: Willem Oosthoek https://velocetoday.com/frank-lance-lonestar-master-mechanic/comment-page-1/#comment-90815 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:21:44 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=151451#comment-90815 Hap Sharp ran an interesting car at Midland in October 1959, It was a Maserati 250S [chassis 2432] in which Red Byron and Frank Lance had installed a 3-liter Ferrari Monza engine in the Dallas shop. A week earlier Sharp took it to a feature victory at Independence, Kansas, but at Midland the hybrid was outgunned by Alan Connell’s new 4.1-liter Ferrari 335S.

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