1970 |
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Jan. |
HLS30 01733 rolls off the assembly line |
Mar. |
HLS30 001733 arrives at the BRE Shop and is prepared for SCCA C-Production |
Oct. |
McComb takes the BRE #3 car to the SCCA Run Off's and finishes third behind Morton and Sharp. This was the first race for the car! |
1971 |
Dan Parkinson is given driving duties by BRE for 1971 - takes the car to the SCCA Run-Offs a second time. |
1972 |
Jim Gammon in Miami purchases the car and continues to race it. Again in the Run-Off's! |
1973-79 |
Car is purchased by Logan Blackburn and raced in the SCCA. Logan won the SCCA C-Production Championship with it in 1977 and raced it through 1979 (sponsored by Jim Campbell Datsun as car #85) |
1980 |
Gerald Mason purchased the car from Logan Blackburn. |
1982-85 |
With his son Gerry driving he won many national races, three divisional championships and finished as high as third in the runoffs thru 1985. |
1985 |
The BRE #3 Car qualified for the Run-Off's every year except 1980/81 when it was not seriously campaigned. |
1994 |
Gerald Mason and his son restore to the car to its original 1970 configuration and enters Vintage Racing with his son. |
1996-97 |
Raced 11 times as of this writting (14 September 1997), with 9 class wins and several overall wins in large fields. Gerald and Gerry just won overall at both Mid Ohio and Elkhart Lake (Aug. 97). |