Barry Budlong of Rochester NY, takes the checkered flag
around the Dunkirk NY airport race on June 1st 1958.
Chuck Stoddard was initially in the lead.
Both wre driving the new Alfa Giulietta Spider Veloces.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

Ralph Durbin´s Alfa #68 exits the corner at the Roundhouse Bar
at Put-in-Bay in 1957. Photo: Joe Brown.


Early Alfa racer Ken Askew (in dark shirt and jacket)
waits for the ferry boat to take his Alfa Sprint coupe
to Put-in-Bay in 1956. His friend Don Black,
later Alfa’s head engineer in the U.S., applies the number 3
to his Siata Spyder.
Photo: Collection of Ken Askew.

At the inaugural race at Lime Rock in 1957,
Alfa #119 was apparently trying an outside pass
on the dark MG when he ran out of room. Photo:
Alix Lafontant.

A picture of concentration as Barry Budlong heads
for a win at Dunkirk, 1958. Photo:
Alix Lafontant.

« There’s carbon on this sparkplug, » the Alfa lady
seems to be saying. Dunkirk 1958. Photo:
Alix Lafontant.

Alfa #11 gets a little crossed up in front
of a Porsche at Dunkirk, 1958.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

Following close: Detroit´s Harry Constant in
Alfa #84 is hounded by Chuck Stoddard
in the #25 Alfa, with the rest of the
Put-in-Bay field in the distance.
Photo: Joe Brown.

It´s time to go to the grid and the blue Alfa #25 of Chuck Stoddard
and the red Alfa #8 of Ivan Trofimov are on their way.
Put-in-Bay, 1958.
Photo: Joe Brown.

A Ferrari LWB coupe gets ready to form up the starters
in G Production at Put-in-Bay 1958.
Photo: Joe Brown.

The Ferrrari approaches Roundhouse Bar,
with the field of Alfas and a few VWs mixed in.
The start would be 300 feet down the front street.
Photo: Joe Brown.

Stoddard, already a force to be reckoned with,
gets his Alfa around the corner at Roundhouse Bar,
Put-in-Bay 1958.
Photo: Joe Brown.

Stoddard on the tail of Trofimov, again at Roundhouse Bar.
Photo: Joe Brown.

Stoddard´s engine lets loose right before the finish.
Stoddard pushed in the clutch and coasted the 300 feet
to the line to finish first.
Photo: Joe Brown.

The scene shifts to Watkins Glen, 1961.
Stoddard again in #78 Alfa leads as a Porsche goes off trying
to keep up. Reed Rollo eventually won in another Alfa Veloce.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

A rare rear view of the Alfas and Porsches at the Glen.
Stoddard is the lead car.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

Chris Noyes leads Stoddard and two Porsches, the Glen, 1961.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

Skip back a year at the Glen and the Alfas,
at only 1300cc are being harried by the new 2000cc Triumphs.
Photo: Alix Lafontant.

Ralph Veit´s Alfa Veloce at the Swan Road Hillclimb
in Colorado, 2002. Collection of Ralph Veit.

Veit leads a Porsche in an RMVR race in July of 2003.
Collection of Ralph Veit.


Now you know why the author is still an Alfa fan.
The young man is Carl Goodwin
and the car is a Giulietta Sprint Zagato, found on the streets of Turin in 1963.
Photo: Nancy Goodwin.

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