Carroll Shelby guides his Ferrari 375 up the slippery Wilkes-Barre, Pennyslvania, Hillclimb setting a course record of 58.768 seconds for the on 20 July 1956
The 375 was owned by John Edgar, Shelby raced it for him at three ‘climbs in 1956; ‘Mt Washington’ on 15 July, then ‘Giants Despair’ and finally ‘Breakneck Hillclimb’ on August 5th. No doubt the 4.4 litre, 380bhp F1/Indy car was quite a challenge on the tight hillclimb courses!
Historian Michael Lynch noted; The cars original serial number was simply no 1.
https://primotipo.com/2016/05/03/carroll-shelby-sets-a-new-giants-despair-hillclimb-record/
