by Jerry Entin » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:29 pm
Chad and Steve: This race was shot by a freind of Eric or Ozzie Pohl named David Hood. He attended this event that was held in 1965. The other Cheetah is the Dixon Cadillac car. It had I believe a 396 chevy engine at this time. Ozzie had bought Doug Hoopers 1957 Corvette race car. It was his first race. David has captured mostly the Hooper pits and various other race and pit action. At 2:19 of the video I am seen messing with my Cheetah. A fellow walks by in a suit. That is Walt Levenstein. He was Lothar Motschenbachers main man. Lothar is also seen in this video he is wearing sun glasses and is by the James Bond Aston Martin.
Eric was a very fun loving person and a great freind. He had a terrible accident in this race where he lost his brakes and shot over an embankment going about 20 feet into the air.
The Ol Yaller seen in the Video was owned by Eric Hauser. The Elva in the video had a Porsche engine and was crewed by Vasek Polak and driven by Jerry Titus. Jerry Titus was the editor of Sports Car Graphic. The best sportscar magazine of the time. It was owned by Robert Peterson of Hot Rod Magazine fame. Jerry Titus had driven the Cheetah for John Grow of Rialto, California, before I bought it.
Here is a great story on Eric Hauser written by Joe Scalzo and seen on Tam's Old race car site:
http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/DavidSeielstadEHauser1.htmlChad and Steve: This race was shot by a freind of Eric or Ozzie Pohl named David Hood. He attended this event that was held in 1965. The other Cheetah is the Dixon Cadillac car. It had I believe a 396 chevy engine at this time. Ozzie had bought Doug Hoopers 1957 Corvette race car. It was his first race. David has captured mostly the Hooper pits and various other race and pit action. At 2:19 of the video I am seen messing with my Cheetah. A fellow walks by in a suit. That is Walt Levenstein. He was Lothar Motschenbachers main man. Lothar is also seen in this video he is wearing sun glasses and is by the James Bond Aston Martin.
Eric was a very fun loving person and a great freind. He had a terrible accident in this race where he lost his brakes and shot over an embankment going about 20 feet into the air.
The Ol Yaller seen in the Video was owned by Eric Hauser. The Elva in the video had a Porsche engine and was crewed by Vasek Polak and driven by Jerry Titus. Jerry Titus was the editor of Sports Car Graphic. The best sportscar magazine of the time. It was owned by Robert Peterson of Hot Rod Magazine fame. Jerry Titus had driven the Cheetah for John Grow of Rialto, California, before I bought it.
Here is a great story on Eric Hauser written by Joe Scalzo and seen on Tam's Old race car site:
[url]http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/DavidSeielstadEHauser1.html[/url]