1951 Bandini Siluro Motto Crosley 750cc cycle fender when owned and raced by James Riley in 1953

1954 Atterbury AFB (1st in Hmod class) Sandy MacArthur

1954 Wilmot Hills (1st in Hmod class) Sandy MacArthur

1954 LockBourne AFB (2nd in Hmod class) Sandy MacArthur

Pete Lyons.com photo

Sandy MacArthur Driving

Pete Lyons.com photo

Tom Burnside photo courtesy of the Revs Institute

Tom Burnside photo courtesy of the Revs Institute

Paul Gougleman Driving

Pete Lyons.com photo

Sandy MacArthur: "1955 was the last year of the privet entries for Sebring.  I had entered, and been accepted with my Bandini, with which I had pretty good success in 1954.  I went up to Carl Kiekhaefer, of Mercury Outboard, and Tried to buy the Stanguellini that he had bought from Briggs Cunningham, the car Briggs won with at Watkins Glenn.  Carl bought it to find out why it was so powerful and had blown it up on the dynamometer, so was not interested in selling the car - at least at that time.   My second choice was to buy a Merc. 40 cu.in. outboard to put in the Bandini.  That really got Keikhaefer interested and during the winter Mercury Outboard completely rebuilt the Bandini spending about $4000.00 preparing it for Sebring- such as building a new gas tank, all new brakes & lines, and installing their latest racing engine.  I co-drove with Paul Gougleman, a former high point SCCA driver in a 750 Nardi, whom I had gone to school with.  We met at the track with a rolling machine shop, squads of mechanics and helpers, 3 airplanes flew down from Wisconsin with Carl and other Merc big wigs.  In the race the car went like a bomb, and we blew off the Renault team, our class competition, and were leading an index of performance, when after 4 ½ hours the Fiat 500 gear box failed".

1955 Sebring (DNF) as shown in the 1956 Sebring program and the June 1955 Car Life Magazine, Sandy MacArthur and Paul Gougleman

1955 Milwaukee Fairgrounds Sandy MacArthur