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12 set 2022 · 22-year-old Lance Reventlow at the Santa Barbara Road Races, 1958. Collections of The Henry Ford. The European adventure turns out to be a bad trip. Most of your race entries get rejected, and at Snetterton, when you finally get to compete, you catapult out of the cockpit after flipping your sweet little Maserati 200S.
Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow (24 February 1936 – 24 July 1972) was a British-born American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child of heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. His stepfathers included actor Cary Grant and Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Info from Wiki Bio by
12 apr 2023 · His full name was Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, and he was the son of Barbara Hutton — one of the richest women in the world — and Danish nobleman Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. That evening, as the group flew over the Rockies, a thunderstorm was brewing. The 27-year-old pilot, Gifford Hooker, was a novice.
5 ott 2020 · Lance Reventlow sits aboard the Scarab race car. (Bob Gates Photo Collection) His mother was Barbara Hutton, the heiress to the F.W. Woolworth Co. department store fortune. His father was a count and, for a time, Cary Grant was his stepfather. The most influential person in Lance Reventlow’s life, though, was yet another stepfather.
19 giu 2014 · Lance Reventlow drives the Scarab F1 car at Riverside, 1960. Perhaps seeking more prestige or merely more speed, Reventlow abandoned the California sunshine for a season racing a rented Cooper Formula 2 car in Britain. Though he wasn't successful enough to draw the attention of Formula One teams, the experience inspired Reventlow to return to ...
5 ago 2016 · Reventlow was killed in a light plane crash on July 24, 1972 near Aspen. Here he is in a Scarab Grand Prix car at Monaco in 1960. Lance Reventlow racing a Scarab at Vacaville in 1960. He won the Governor’s Cup and shared the Nassau Trophy win with Chuck Daigh at the 1958 Nassau Speed Weeks. Daigh said of Reventlow, “He was a good driver ...
