{"id":461093,"date":"2007-03-01T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=66408"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:42:25","slug":"remembering-ernie-mcafee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/remembering-ernie-mcafee\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ernie McAfee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m writing this column during the waning days of 2006. Fifty years is traditionally a significant anniversary. What I remember most about 1956 was that we lost Ernie McAfee during the last race held on the Del Monte Properties at Pebble Beach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ernie was a dear friend and a wonderful man. Our fifties-era sports car racing crowd was much the poorer for his passing. Whenever I got involved in any sort of sports car-related activity, I would call Ernie for help and he never failed me. A couple of times I got roped into chairing a concours. Each time I asked Ernie to judge. For political reasons I sometimes had to have other judges who were not particularly car knowledgeable. Ernie was always so very kind and courteous, leading them through the process and keeping them from making stupid mistakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the first half of the fifties decade, Ernie McAfee was one of the very top sports car pilots in the U.S. He was also involved in the business of importing, selling and repairing foreign\u2014mostly Italian\u2014sports cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What follows are only a few highlights\u2014it doesn\u2019t pretend to do justice to the life of Ernie McAfee. That would require a book. He got involved with cars and speed before WWII. His high point was setting a Southern California Timing Association record on the dry lakes at 136.33 in a torpedo-shaped lakester with a flat-head Ford engine he built himself. In 1952, with Ernie navigating, Jack McAfee (no relation) came in 5th overall in the 1952 Carrera Panamericana. In 1953, Ernie won the novice event at Palm Springs and raced Bill Devin\u2019s 4.1 Ferrari coupe a number of times. That same year, he started to race his Siata 208S (for which he was the importer) the first time at Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ernie\u2019s best year was 1955. His sponsor, Bill Doheny, bought a new 3-liter 750 Monza Ferrari. Its first race was at Santa Barbara on May 28, a Saturday. He won the qualifying race and then went on Sunday to win the main event. The next month at the Los Angeles Sports Car Race held in Hansen Dam Park, he repeated the performance. And he did it again at Santa Barbara on September 3\u20134.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later that year, Doheny bought a 4.4-liter Ferrari, a 121LM, an undoubted beast of a car. Ernie raced both the Monza and the 4.4 at the December 3\u20134 Palm Springs race. How, you might ask, could this happen? On Saturday, Race 6 was for modified cars 1,500 to 3,000-cc. The displacement of the Monza was just under 3 liters. He entered and won. The next one, Race 7, was for modified cars over 3,000-cc. So McAfee jumped out of the Monza into the 4.4 and won that one too, finishing ahead of Masten Gregory\u2019s Maserati by 3 seconds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652981\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-652981 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1-770x612.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p1-293x233.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Ernie McAfee\u00d5s Ferrari just before his fatal accident at Pebble Beach in March of 1956. Photo: Curt Warchowsky from the Fabulous Fifties Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Ernie wasn\u2019t all that happy with the 4.4, so for Sunday\u2019s main event, he went back to the Monza. He and Gregory put on a show\u2014nose to tail, trading the lead\u2014that had the 35,000+ spectators on their feet for the entire hour. At the end, they came out of the last corner side by side. At the line, the Maserati was only inches ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first race of 1956 was on January 14\u201315 at Torrey Pines, the last race ever held at that venue. On Saturday, there was a 6-hour enduro. Ernie entered one of his Morettis for which he was also an importer, but failed to finish. On Sunday, he was back in the Bill Doheny 4.4 Ferrari. The main event was almost a repeat of the previous Palm Springs, but not quite. This time Phil Hill was there in a 3-liter Monza. Even though Ernie led at the start, Phil passed and stretched his lead until the car overheated and he had to park. Then it was Masten and McAfee going at it again. But Ernie spun and dropped back to 13th. Even though he worked his way back up to 2nd, gaining on Gregory every lap, Masten took the checkered 50 seconds ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 17\u201318, 1956, Ernie was back at Santa Barbara again. This time he pulled an unbelievable feat. He had acquired an MT4 Osca. On Saturday, he defeated Ken Miles in a 550 Porsche by 4 seconds. On Sunday, Ken failed to finish and Ernie won by more than a lap. But in case he didn\u2019t have enough to do, he entered the Doheny 4.4 in both the Saturday and Sunday main events, both of which he also won.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652982\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-652982 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3-770x617.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p3-293x235.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie McAfee in the 4.4-liter 735 Monza Ferrari waiting on the grid for the main event at the November 13th, race at Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California. He finished 2nd behind Phil Hill in a Ferrari Monza. Photo: Art Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At this point, it looked as if 1956 would be another banner year. But alas, it wasn\u2019t to be. Ernie entered the April 22 Pebble Beach race with both his Osca MT4 and the Doheny 4.4 Ferrari. He dropped out of Race 4 because a screw fell out of the rotor in the Osca. The main event that day included some of the very best drivers this side of the pond\u2014Carroll Shelby, Phil Hill, Jack McAfee, Sterling Edwards, Bill Murphy, John Von Neumann, Bill Pollack and Lou Brero among them. Ernie didn\u2019t get a good start and was playing catch up. By the middle of the race, Shelby was leading followed by Hill and Pollack. Ernie was 4th\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad and closing with Jack McAfee right behind. Jack told me what he saw when I was working on my Pebble Beach Remembered book: \u201cJust after Ernie passed me, he missed a shift. Then he jumped on the brakes while in the wrong gear. This made everything lock up. So then he just went straight off the course and boom (into a tree).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident resulted in the death of not only Ernie McAfee, but also racing at Pebble Beach. I was so upset that I just got in my car and drove home. It was sometimes hard to see due to the tears in my eyes. And I didn\u2019t want to go back to Monterey until years later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Note: This year\u20142007\u2014is the fiftieth anniversary of the first event held at Fort Ord on the Laguna Seca course. I\u2019m trying to round up all of those who raced then, who are still around, as well as their descendants. Please get in touch with me. Call 310-540-8068 or email agevans@yahoo.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652983\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-652983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4-100x81.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4-770x621.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/FF200703-p4-293x236.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the beginning of the main event at Torrey Pines on January 15, 1956, is Ernie McAfee (#76) followed by Phil Hill (#2) and Masten Gregory. 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