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Stephen Holman’s Scanned Images SCCA 1958

During the late 50's my dad, Stephen R Holman, was the official photographer for the Square Wheel, the Bay Area SCCA Magazine, while working as a service writer part time at the Sports Car Center over in Sausalito. The Sports Car Center was owned by Bill Breeze, father of Mountain Bike creator, Joe Breeze. There were a list of characters and cars that rolled through the shop, three of them included fabricator Nadeau Bourgeault, Bob Winkelman and Danish immigrant Mogens Skov.

I found a box of prints he took that I scanned. His cars at the time were a Triumph TR2 (#51) and Fiat Abarth Zagato Coupe. My Dad, Stephen R Holman, passed November 22, 2016 at age 89. He had stopped riding motorcycles two up at 82, probably a decade longer then he was safe... but that never stopped him. I am hoping to find more images as time goes along. I used what little information I have to identify the images so please do not hesitate to update me as time goes along. Thanks, Ted

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James R. Lowe in his Lotus XI Club in 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Mogens Skov Photo credit Stephen Holman

Alfa Photo credit Stephen Holman.

1958 Porsche 356 Rally Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Laguna Seca 1958 Corner Workers Square Wheel Photo credit Stephen Holman

Stephen Holman 195 Triumph TR2 Aston Martin Jaguar

Stepehn Holman Triumph TR2 1958

Morris Minor at Hill Climb 1958 Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Road Rally 1958 Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman

1958 Cork Screw Laguna Seca Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman's 1960 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato).

Morgan Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman's 1960 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato). Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman

Stephen Holman's Triumph TR-2. Circa 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Austin Healey Morgan Circa 1959 Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Bill Breeze, Jr., in his bug-eye Sprite. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Photo credit Stephen Holman

Circa 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Porsche Speedster Circa 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Bill Breeze (in black shirt) and Mogens Skov and Bob Winkelmann unload a new Lotus XI Clubman. Peter Breeze at the wheel. Circa 1957. Breeze earlier had sold Formula 3 Coopers, but had pretty much given up on those 500cc alcohol-burners by this time. Pho

Road Rally Korbel Champane Cellars 1959

Motorcycle Races China Camp Marin County 1960

James R. Lowe in his newly rebodied Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica #39 chases his wife Marion Lowe in her Frazer-Neah Targa Floria, #38. 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Nadeau Bourgeault's re-bodied Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica he formed for James R. Lowe in 1956, at the wheel here. It is said that Lowe sold this car to Jim Firestone, who apparently raced it as early as July 1956 was eventually killed in it at the Paramoun

Bill Breeze in James R. Lowe's Lotus XI #39. About 1956. To the right is Jim Orr's 1955 Ermini 357 Sport. This Ermini was the very car (this one) that Bill Devin used to mold his fiberglass bodies. Sports Car Center at Manzinita (Sausalito), California. N

Bill Breeze pushes a Lotus XI up to the nozzle. 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

James R. Lowe's Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica. Circa 1955.

Stephen Holman Autocrossing his 1958 Volkswagen Van.

Mogens Skov, wrenches on an Abarth at the Sports Car Center in Sausalito, California.

Austin Healey

Bob Winkelmann and his MG-TD, #110. Circa 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The Sports Car Center's Clayton Dynamometer, Bill Breeze at the wheel of what appears to be a sectioned late-50s Triumph TR-3. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Bob Winkelmann and his MG-TD, #110. Circa 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

West Grand Stands Start/ Finish Laguna Seca 1958 Elise Holman Photo credit Stephen Holman

Bob Winkelmann and his Elva. Circa 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Sterling Edwards car. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman Autocrossing his 1958 Volkswagen Van.

Bill Breeze wrestles with a Coventry Climax engine. Circa 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Nadeau "Nado" Bourgeault at work in his shop at the Sports Car Center in Sausalito, California. Circa 1957. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman

James R. Lowe's Lotus XI Clubman #39 and Marion Lowe's Lotus XI Clubman #38. Bill Breeze at far right. Laguna Seca, 1958. Possibly November, 1957? Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Pru Baxter's Lotus XI? Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Bob Winkelmann and his MG-TD, #110. Circa 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Dan Cozzi's 1956 Jaguar Cozzi Special. Cozzi built the tubular frame at age 18. Mechanicals including engine are from a wrecked Jaguar XK120. Jack Hagemann made the alu body. Nadeau Bougeault raced it in its debut in March 1957, finishing 3rd at Miner's F

Laguna Seca 1958 Start Finish Photo credit Stephen Holman

Photo credit Stephen Holman

Elise Holman getting a ride up the back side of Laguna Seca circa 1958

The artist in in the Keck Porsche, body complete. Nadeau Bourgeault is said to have spent 600 hours fabricating this body. Sausalito, California, looking north across Richardson Bay from the Sports Car Center. In the distance are the beginnings of th

The artist with the Keck Porsche, body complete. Nadeau Bourgeault is said to have spent 600 hours fabricating this body. At the Sports Car Center, Sausalito, California, 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The Keck Porsche. The then-new concrete Richardson Bay Bridge is in the distance. The first bridge was made of redwood and included a lift span. Stephen Holman's Abarth further down the gravel drive of the Sports Car Center, Sausalito, California.

Nade's English Wheel, to the right, appears to be bolted to a stout building post. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The Keck Porsche. Mill Valley is seen through the support structure of the then-new concrete Richardson Bay Bridge. The first bridge was made of redwood and included a lift span. A cute little Abarth further down the gravel drive of the Sports Car Center,

The Keck Porsche, body complete. Nadeau Bourgeault is said to have spent 600 hours fabricating this body. At the Sports Car Center, Sausalito, California, 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The Keck Porsche ready for the painter. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The Keck Porsche, body complete. Nadeau Bourgeault is said to have spent 600 hours fabricating this body. At the Sports Car Center, Sausalito, California, 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

The re-bodied Keck Porsche taking shape. Aluminum sheet (0.040" thick) replaces the steel dream lines. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

In Nade's shop at the Sports Car Center. The lines work aft. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Finding the new lines for the George Keck's Porsche body. Sports Car Center, 1958. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

In Nade's shop at the Sports Car Center. The lines work aft. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Nadeau Bourgeault's wire framing for the new body for Lowe's Frazer-Nash. Sports Car Center, 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Sometime between 1951 and 1954 Nadeau Bourgeault formed a new body for his MG-TC. This was in space within the Sports Car Center complex. Nade may have made more than one body for his MG-TC, or there may have been multiple MG cars that he re-bodied for hi

Nade at the wheel of his MG. Bill Breeze has a close look at the problem. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Photo credit Stephen Holman.

1950s Ford straight six? 1930s Ford chassis? Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Lotus XI cars.

James R. Lowe in his 1957 Lotus XI. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Porsche Carrera Cork Screw Laguna Seca circa 1959

Bill Breeze and Mogens Skov at SCC with a new Lotus XI. Breeze was the Northern California dealer for Lotus. On the edge of Richardson Bay with Strawberry Point beyond. A few more houses there today. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Mogens Skov and Bill Breeze work on Jim Orr’s Ermini 357 Sport at Sports Car Center, Sausalito (Manzanita), California. Circa 1956. Nadeau Bourgeault’s fabrication shop is directly opposite. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Nadeau "Nado" Bourgeault gets to work on James R. Lowe's Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica. 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Bill Breeze (in black shirt) and others unload a new Lotus XI cars from the SCC two-tier trailer. Circa 1957. Breeze earlier had sold Formula 3 Coopers, but had pretty much given up on those 500cc alcohol-burners by this time. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Nadeau Bourgeault's re-bodied Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica he formed for James R. Lowe in 1956, at the wheel here. Lowe soon sold this car and it burned at the Paramount Ranch track in Southern California in December 1957. Note the tail line that is a simil

Left to right: Bob Winkelmann, ???, ???, Jim Beam, Nadeau Bourgeault, Mogens Skov (beyond), and Bill Breeze celebrate in the office at the Sports Car Center, Manzanita, about 1959. Photo credit Stephen Holman

Stephen Holman's Triumph TR-2. Circa 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Bill Breeze. See 8-08, Santa Barabara, 1955, in Breeze Collection. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman's 1956 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato). Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Elise Holman's 1956 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato). Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman's 1956 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato) Novato Hillclimb. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

Stephen Holman's 1956 Abarth Fiat 750 GT Coupe (Zagato). Photo credit Stephen Holman.

James R. Lowe in his newly rebodied Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica #39 chases his wife Marion Lowe in her Frazer-Neah Targa Floria, #38. 1956. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

James R. Lowe's Frazer-Nash LeMans Replica. Circa 1955.

Photo credit Stephen Holman

Steve Holman smokin' on the Clayton dyno at the Sports Car Center

Mogens Skov

Some last-miute adjustments for a Lowe Lotus. Photo credit Stephen Holman.

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Sports Car World September 11, 1958

Sports Car Pictorial August 1958

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