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A.I.R. #44 at Sears Point - Summer of 2000
Jim Herlinger races the #44 A.I.R. car at Sears Point, May 2000

James Garner's American International Racing Team L88's

As printed in Wayne Ellwood's Shark Quarterly magazine
Minor text re-formatting and small tweaks for web viewing by Allen Woolley
Note: The photo's for the articles aren't on-line yet. Please
check out Bob Radke's page below for many AIR car photos.

This fascinating story in three parts first appeared in Wayne Ellwood's Shark Quarterly magazine in 1998. They are reprinted here with Mr. Ellwood's permission. 

The articles detail how the brothers Dave and Jim Herlinger came to first race, then sell, then recover and restore, two (and almost all three!) of James Garner's (yes, that James Garner) American International Racing COPO 1968 L88 Corvettes.

Part 1, published xx, 1998

Part 2, published xx, 1998

Part 3, published xx, 1998

 

Related web sites:

Bob Radke's AIR page - lots and lots of vintage photos of the cars prior to Daytona, plus some amazing photos of Bob Wingate and Clippinger Chevrolet's lot *full* of Sharks.

Yet another killer page by Bob Radke: Bob Wingate's '67 Factory Special Order Vette

Additional links are forthcoming.

A pair of photos of the #44 car taken at Dave's shop in December, 2001
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