[DARISC]

I was a young boy, sitting on the front porch swing eating plumbs and reading comic books when the news came over the radio that Pierre Levesque's Mercedes launched off of Lance Macklin's Austin Healey, became a magnesium fireball and landed on spectators. Mercedes pulled out of the race shortly thereafter.

I haven't watched the recording yet; the above are memories off the top of my skull. Coincidentally, a couple days prior to that race, a friend of my uncle, who lived two doors away, brought his brand new, metallic blue, Austin Healey 100-4 over to show off, first one I'd seen outside magazines. Many years later I bought a red '54 that I wish I still had.