Sandy in the pre-grid line. That's Paul Vollmer and his blue TR. He was the initiator of Solo One in Southern California. His SCCSCC organization put on a few events before SCCA decided it would be worthwhile incorporating into its scheme. Dave Turner and I invented Improved Touring and took the concept to a meeting at Paul's home (Tarzana, I think). Within 18 months or so, IT was the largest category of entrants in Solo One. Eventually IT became a Regional racing category, very popular there, too. I understand it is in decline at present.

Paul's car is sitting in a space next to the pit wall. There was a row of posts separating those places, occupied by tools, crew members and refueling rigs on race days, from a lane next to the chain link. On the other side of the wall were the racing pits and pit lane; beyond that the sometimes-grassy area whose other side was defined by a wall at the edge of the racing surface. The top of that wall was a few inches to a foot above the level of the "grass," and as much as four or five feet above the track itself.

Second photo looks north to a left turn where cars can join a queue at reentry. You can see a bit of the Winner Circle featured in a previous photo view. You can see the top of the trackside wall there, too.

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