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A group of Stanford University students led by Professor Chris Gerdes conducted primary research on historic automobiles housed in Naples, FL, tapping into the vast array of information available at the private research library. The visitors are part of the new Revs Program at Stanford.

The Revs Program at Stanford creates a unique opportunity to study the automobile from a variety of disciplines. It bridges the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences, engineering, design, law and business. This year the Stanford team is focusing on the collection’s 1966 Ford. It has been fitted with telemetry to not only understand the cars’ performance, but also to study the driver’s experience.

For information visit: Stanford/edu/group/revs

THE REVS PROGRAM AT STANFORD

Volunteers at The Revs Institute in blue shirts and Revs Program at Stanford personnel in red shirts pose by our 1966 Ford GT40. From left to right: Bill Blume, David Copeland, Phil Leonhard, Scott George, Prof. J. Christian Gerdes, Guido Koch, John Arsenault, John Kegelman, Dr. Lene Harbott and Jackie Laio (seated in car).

Whether your interests concern a particular automotive marque, a colorful period in motor sport history or the technical aspects of the car today or in the distant past, our vast store of magazines both delight and enrich any research endeavor.

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he Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. is a not for profit 501(c)3 private operating foundation. It is a growing leader as an information destination and image resource for an international community of transportation and automotive professionals, enthusiasts and students. We draw upon more than 300,000 original images, 400,000 primary documents, 20,000 books and 80,000 issues of periodicals. The Revs Institute continues to grow. Among other recent additions, we are privileged to now include the acclaimed and authoritative Ludvigsen Library from Great Britain into our offerings. We welcome serious researchers, authors, historians, media representatives and collectors to use our resources.

Reading room in the library of the Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Naples, Florida

2012 FUTURE EVENTS!GO!PLACES

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● The 2011 season started with the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in March. Three cars were displayed for the more than 50,000 attendees: the 1962 cunningham Jaguar E type, which finished 4th overall at Le Mans, the 1935 Ex gary cooper ssJ Duesenberg and the 1933 fred frame built Duesenberg powered racer, which took the coveted IMS/Tony Hulman Award for most significant Indy car.

● In May, the Collection’s 1913 peugeot L3 coupe de l’Auto returned to Indy for the track’s centenary celebration. It was the first time back there for the Peugeot since 1914, when it finished second.

● Roger Mandeville piloted the Collection’s 1965 ferrari 250 Lm, 1967 porsche 910 and the 1971 porsche 908/3 at the Legends of Motorsport Event at the Barber Motorsports Park in May.

● In June, students from the Revs Program at Stanford presented a short biography at the Palo Alto Concours on the Collection’s 1938-8ctf maserati and the 1913 peugeot.

● The Collection’s 1919 Ballot was invited to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in June to join fellow Indianapolis racing cars for a special Indy centenary celebration.

● The Collection’s 1924 miller, 1927 Delage 1-5 8s and the 1935 collier mg pA/pB special were exercised at the famous Milwaukee Mile Race Track during the annual Milwaukee Miller Club Event in July.

● August was exceptionally busy for the Collection with a trip to the Monterey Reunion and Pre-Reunion. The 1950 cadillac Le monstre was loaned to Cadillac for the Quail Event and the 1955 Ex cunningham D type and 1962 E type Jaguars were part of the 50th Anniversary display of the E type at Laguna Seca Raceway.

● Also at Monterey, Stanford used telemetry to measure the performance of the porsche 910 and the 1960 porsche Abarth carrera gtL as well as measuring the actions of its drivers, John Morton and Bruce Canepa.

● For September, Roger Mandeville drove the 1971 porsche 908/3 and the Targa Florio winning 1960 porsche Rs 60 at Lime Rock Park. Once again, in honor of the Jaguar E Type’s 50th the cunningham E type was part of the festivities and the Concours, and also the following weekend at the Fairfield County Concours.

● In October, we ended the season back in Monterey for the Porsche Rennsport Reunion and the Porsche Quail Classic, with Brian Redman piloting the Rs60 and the 908/3 at Rennsport races, and taking celebration laps with the Collection’s 1971 917K, 1953 550 01 coupe and the 1967 Ex gerard Larrousse-tour de france, tour de corse, winning 911R. For the Quail Classic, the 1960 Abarth carrera gtL, Rs60 and 550 01 coupe were part of the major display of classic Porsches gathered to raise funds for Lung Cancer Research.

John Morton pilots the Collection’s 1960 Porsche Abarth-Carrera GTL at Laguna Seca equipped with Stanford’s Revs data acquisition gear.

he Collier Collection celebrates the single most important technologic object of the 20th Century: The Automobile. Simply put, the automobile formed the modern era in its image. The cars in the Collier Collection are not stagnant as seen from the 2011 season highlights:

ApRiL 18 – 22: National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI. www.ncph.org

mAy 5-6: Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance, Seabrook TX. www.keels-wheels.com JunE 24: Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance, Palo Alto, CA. www.paconcours.com JunE 28-JuLy 1: Goodwood Festival of Speed, Chichester England.www.goodwood.co.uk JuLy 6-8: Le Mans Classic, Circuitdel la Sarthe in France. www.lemansclassic.com Aug 11-19: Monterey Pre Reunion & Reunion, Monterey, CA.www.laguna-seca.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion Aug 19: Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Carmel, CAwww.pebblebeachconcours.net Aug 31-sEpt 3: Lime Rock Historic Festival 30, Lakeville, CTwww.limerock.com sEpt 14-16: Goodwood Revival, Chichester England. www.goodwood.co.uk oct 20: Lake Mirror Classic, Lakeland, FLwww.lakemirrorclassic.com

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IntroducingTHE REVS INSTITUTE

MEDIA REVIEW

In each issue of the Revs Review we’ll introduce one of the key people involved in making this a foremost center for automotive research. Now we meet mARK pAtRicK, the Managing Librarian.

Our Managing Librarian has spent his adulthood working with historical collections of books and manuscripts. Before he earned degrees from the University of Michigan, Mark was raised in the shadow of the Detroit auto plants. “The car culture in Detroit is pervasive—it seemed like we always talked about cars. If we were in a Little League baseball game and a Mustang drove by, we called time to watch it,” Patrick chuckles. But, there is a serious side to automotive history also.

on Assisting thE schoLAR: “I enjoy bringing history to the learner. There are so many great

stories yet to be told in automotive history. I think the scholars who analyze this history will give us ways to better forecast and plan for the global economy and deal with cultural and environmental politics in the 21st Century. “

on DigitizAtion AnD LiBRARiEs: “In a diverse world, images are a kind of lingua franca for the

human family. I mean, think of the pre-historic cave paintings and then all the art down through the ages. People record knowledge by picturing it. Images are the reality part of the memory bank and that is why the digital horizon is so magnificent. 500,000 photographs is a lot of history to share. That is why the Revs-Stanford University library partnership is an important history of technology digital initiative. ”

The library at the Revs Institute grows constantly.Here is a look at two selected newly published works:

Sebring 12 Hours: The Official Record Book of America’s Greatest Sports Car Raceby Ken Breslauer, Raceway Press, Sebring, Florida, 2012.Order from, www.sebringraceway.com, $40 plus s&h

Historian at the famed Florida sports car circuit. He had written the definitive his-tory of the event in 1995. The current work is not properly a second edition but rather an updated reference book. Indeed, data and photos are the book’s raison d’etre, as there is little text of note apart from a brief but in-formative introduction. The centerpiece is the complete compendium of results for each of the now nearly 60 editions of the twelve-hour race. The answers to nearly every pub table argument can be found within its 144 pages. Breslauer’s 1995 edition remains the source for text summaries of each race while this one does bring the story up to date with further

result tables. A key feature here, not published before, is a posting of photographs of the top ten finishers for each year beginning with the first race in 1952. Scanning past those images provides a wonderful capsule history not only of the technical development in race craft but also changes in livery styles as well as a compen-dium of famous car models. The soft cover book concludes with a directory of every driver to have participated in the event. The work is one of pure reference and is indispensable for any racing historian.

Group B – The Owner’s Editionby Reinhard Klein and John Davenport, McKlein Publishing, Köln, Germany, 2011. Order from, www.thegroupbbook.com, €999

Group B—The Owner’s Edition is the title of a new two volume history of the Group B class of wide open rallying. From 1982 through 1986 lightweight, blazingly fast production based cars criss-crossed the globe to challenge each other over varied terrain and climates. As the FIA placed few technical restrictions on this class, Audi, BMW, Lancia, Peugeot and, it seems, the rest of the industry all tried to one-up each other by introducing more horsepower, composite materials and advancements in all-wheel drive and suspension. Group B became more than rallying—it was a real-time testing facility for novel automotive technology. Racing enthusiasts of all stripes caught the excitement and soon Group B had a cult following –drawing spectators in the many thousands. Group B also directly influenced the 80’s Yuppie Car craze in the States and made BMW and Audi popular with the upwardly mobile. Arranged chronologically, the authors draw upon interviews, photographs, official documents and race reports and they have done so comprehensively. Chapters focus on driver and team profiles and specific rallies. This remarkable, elegant publication is lavishly illustrated and has a limited edition of only 500. It comes hardbound in a slip-case and weighs a whopping 30 lbs. It will also set your wallet back 999 Euro.

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1957 HANSEAT RALLyE. The rallying discipline was a particularly important

proving ground for touring cars during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The Schroers Collection

retains very detailed records of each stage at each event. The Hanseat Rallye was run

primarily at the Nürbugring circuit.

In each issue of the Revs Review, we will provide highlights of materials new to the collection. One of the collections currently being cataloged is the Geoffrey Hewitt photo archives. Hewitt is an Ohio based motorsports photographer who was particularly active from the mid-1960’s through the mid-1980’s. He specialized in SCCA and IMSA races both nationally and with particular emphasis in the Northeast and Midwest. The Hewitt collection comprises some 220,000 images. Most are transparencies. Hewitt’s high-quality work covers that important period when American racing was making a transition from a modest professional exercise to the major business that it is today.

Another recent addition to the collection is the library of Helmut Schroers. He was a leading motorsports journalist in Germany from the early 1950’s through the 1970’s. Schroers predominantly covered motorcycle events and automotive rallies, as well as most of the major car races in Europe. He kept copious notes and retained all of the race data, press notes and programs from each venue. Eventually both the Hewitt and Schroers collections will become part of the Revs Institute’s digital archives.

In the next issue of the Revs Review we will feature the history and background of an important car, person or other aspect of automotive history.

STEVE MCQUEEN, 1962. The film star turned racer was a few years into his racing career when he drove this formula car. This was an SCCA Nationals event at Cotati, California. The now defunct circuit predated the nearby and better known Sears Point venue.

PRIVATEER PORSCHES, 1972. Today even backmarker teams arrive at race paddocks with multiple transporters, but such was not the case in the past. The California based team of Vasek Polak ran two older Porsche 917/10 Spyders in the Can-Am series against the factory backed turbocharged versions. Milt Minter would take No. 0 to 4th place at Laguna Seca.

1958 BERLIN GRAND PRIX. This program is from the premier event held for sports cars on the old AVUS circuit. The course consisted of lanes on either side of a divided public highway. It was closed for races and was also used extensively for vehicle tests and record attempts. The cars are shown on one of the hairpin bankings that were located at either end. This particular race was won by Jean Behra in a Porsche RSK.

MILES COLLIER, Chairman & President | SCOTT GEORGE, Vice PresidentMARK PATRICK, Managing Librarian | BILL BLUME, Shop Foreman

JAyME MOORE, Executive Assistant | JáNOS WIMPFFEN, Editorial ConsultantMARIA WRITESEL, Consultant | TIM KLING, Art Director