2 months ago, PM Summer left a comment, that I have looked at every day, many times, just waiting for the motivation to do something about looking it up and post about - Shelby winning a hillclimb in 1952 in an Allard J2

PM Summer commented in response to my post "Carroll Shelby in '56, hillclimbing. I'd never heard that he'd done that" 

and he said:

 Shelby also won a hillclimb in Grayson County, Texas in 1952 in an Allard J2 with a 331 Caddy engine topped with a Wiend intake, Strombergs, Crane cam, Ford trans, and De Dion rear end

at the SCCA-sanctioned Pottsboro Hill Climb. 

Shelby had barely begun driving in competition when in March 1952 Louisiana businessman Charlie Brown hired the young Texan to drive his Cadillac-Allard, #J2179, at the SCCA-sanctioned Pottsboro hill climb.

Sydney Allard was nearly killed with his family during a Nazi bombing raid over London where he was based at his family business repairing military vehicles for the war effort.

After WWII he returned to his passion of building and racing cars, he founded the Allard Motor Company and built a series of cars over a period of 10 years that would forever change the world of sports cars.

 Both Carroll Shelby and Zora Arkus-Duntov drove Allards in competition

https://silodrome.com/allard-j2-carroll-shelby/

https://porzelackpolishguy.com.au/blogs/news/this-1952-allard-is-one-of-most-significant-race-cars-in-australia-and-is-owned-by-joe-calleja-i-was-lucky-enough-to-porzelack-polish-it

While I'm thinking of Shelby, I've wondered about this photo for a while now