The following thread contains some excellent period colour photos and details of the Briggs Cunningham Team cars raced in the 1960 Le Mans:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...for-briggs-cunningham-le-mans-corvette-found/
After the race the cars were shipped back to the USA, converted back into road cars and sold - the purchasers had no idea that their one gentle owner / ex-demonstrator car had actually spent hours screaming at full throttle down the 3.5 mile Mulsanne straight (no chicanes in those days). I strongly recommend viewing the documentary in Sick's post above - it is a real eye opener and very informative - just a shame that the colour has faded quite badly.
In the colour picture at the top you can see the red headlamp protectors - during daylight hours the teams used to cover the headlights to prevent stones or gravel from shattering the headlamp lenses. Some teams used cloth and sticky tape, but Briggs Cunningham was a very experienced Le Mans campaigner and had proper, professional looking covers made in three colours - red, blue and yellow, which helped the team identify the cars from a distance. It would be great if PD would let us choose these three colours of headlamp covers to get a more authentic look in photos of our online racing. Although the picture below is black and white - you can see the different shades of grey! Number 1 had yellow covers, number 2 blue and number 3 red.
Such an iconic and historic Le Mans car truly deserves a slot in the game - people shouldn't have to use the Art Morrison Corvette, which doesn't even have a race number option or proper 1960's wheel and tyre options, when they want to race online against other early 1960's classics.
In the photo above you can see the Briggs Cunningham team Corvettes 1 and 3 towards the bottom of the image and the number 2 corvette leading the group. Car 6 is a Briggs Cunningham D Type Jaguar. Over many years competing at Le Mans as a driver and team owner Cunningham campaigned a wide variety of great cars including Cadillacs, Corvettes, D Types, Factory Lightweight E Types, Birdcage Maseratis, Ferraris, OSCA's, Porsches and even his own make of sports cars. It would be great if we could have an option for the Cunningham paint scheme of white with blue stripes on a range of theses great cars such as the D Type and Birdcage Maserati - Carol Shelby is often wrongly credited with inventing racing stripes, but Cunningham took the American racing colour of white and added two blue stripes to create an iconic livery which was copied, but reversed by Shelby.
Above - the man - Briggs Swift Cunningham the Second with a few of his Cunningham's.
