Volunteers and International Motor Racing
Research Center staffers worked diligently to
locate and then relocate large capacity file
cabinets (LEFT and BELOW) to house some
of the larger pieces of motorsports history
that reside in the SCCA Archives (RIGHT).

THE BIG PICTURE

Sometimes people struggle to see the big picture. But in the case of the SCCA
Archives, the challenge was properly storing
the big picture – literally finding place to
properly preserve the many oversized
items that comprise an important part
of the collection. And to that end, SCCA
Archives technicians at the International
Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC)
in Watkins Glen reached out to the SCCA
Foundation for help in finding a solution
for SCCA’s larger items in the Archives.

Foundation Board member Bob Eddyanswered the call and commenced anationwide search for specialized large format,flat storage cabinets of the type often foundat architectural firms and art studios. An initiallead to used cabinets in an abandoned office inOklahoma did not pan out, but a second leadto a source in Roanoke, Va., resulted in paydirt – 11 five-drawer steel cabinets and one10-drawer cabinet in excellent condition andavailable immediately. Bob even negotiatedfor the drawers to be delivered to the IMRRC’sstorage facility in Montour Falls, N. Y.Thanks to the generous donations ofso many people during the year, includingparticipation in the popular annualSweepstakes fundraiser (reminder: ticketsfor the F1 VIP trip and Skip Barber schoolare still on sale until Sept. 3), the Foundationwas able to fully fund the purchase anddelivery of the desperately needed storagecabinets. “The new flat storage cases are thebest way to preserve the oversized graphicsof the SCCA Archives,” explains Archivestechnician Rick Hughey. “We have tons ofposters, circuit maps, racecar blueprints, andsome autographed flags from the Runoffs.”When the SCCA Archives relocated tothe IMRRC, in consideration of the spaceand storage constraints, Head ArchivistJenny Ambrose had her team concentratedon other parts of the collection for whichthere were available storage facilities. Theability to now work with the large-formatitems opened a whole new world of whatshe describes as hidden treasures.“Now that we have the new cabinets,the SCCA Archives technicians started theprocess of unpacking and unrolling thelarge-format graphics,” explains Ambrose.“The early race posters from tracks andair bases from all over the country thatJoe and Rick have discovered so far aretruly remarkable. These posters from the1950s and 1960s nicely complementthe Archive’s many early race programs,another strength of the SCCA collection.”Having this important collection of SCCAhistory preserved in the right manner in theproper facilities for doing so continues to bea core mission of the SCCA Foundation. The