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	Briggs Cunningham Information
		Briggs Swift Cunningham II (1907 - 2003) was a racecar constructor, racing team owner, and racecar driver—often described as a renowned racecar enthusiast—an American automobile manufacturer and collector, as well as, being a victorious America Cup sailor (skipper of the Columbia in 1958), and inventor.
		Cunningham was one of the first purchasers of the Ferrari barchetta, which was raced along with other brands he constructed or owned.
		Cunningham automobiles mostly were high-performance prototypes built by Briggs Cunningham and his racing team as racecars and for competition in motorsports during the 1950s, but a few have been adapted for street use and sometimes may be seen as historic personal vehicles.
	www.bookrags.com /Briggs_Cunningham (736 words)

	America's Cup Inductees: Briggs S. Cunningham
		Briggs was noted for developing the "Cunningham" which allows one to adjust the tension on the luff of the sail.
		Briggs was also a champion race car driver, and was the first American to compete in the Le Mans.
		Briggs built and raced his own cars, which are now displayed at the Briggs Cunningham Museum in Florida.
	www.herreshoff.org /Tops/mmvtcunninghamtop.htm (220 words)

	Briggs Cunningham - American Racing Tradition - Cunningham Museum
		Briggs, who was not quite done behind the wheel, would race again at Sebring; in 1964 he joined New Jersey Porsche dealer Lake Underwood to drive a new factory-backed 904, finishing ninth overall and first in the under-2-litre prototype class.
		Briggs had kept almost all of the significant cars he had owned over the years, a fact that was common knowledge amongst his friends, many of whom had toured the collection at Greens Farms with Briggs as their guide.
		Throughout that time both Briggs and Laura devoted the vast majority of their time to the Museum's daily affairs, which involved not only regular maintenance and frequent restorations, but also the transport and display of cars to such outside venues as car shows, vintage races and concours d'elegance.
	www.briggscunningham.com /cmuseum.html (1141 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		These are, however, merely a vestige of the tradition begun in sportscar racing when all of the racecars built by Briggs Cunningham were painted white with blue stripesâ”as were most of the Team Cunningham race cars that followed.
		Cunningham racecars usually carried two parallel blue stripes running from front to rear of the white body so that spectators could identify the team's automobiles readily during races.
		The Cunningham tradition was followed by Carroll Shelby on his Cobra and some prototypes built as, "Shelby", that sometimes were driven on the street in New Jersey.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Go-faster_stripes (826 words)

	[Deathwatch] Briggs Cunningham, Racecar Pioneer and Sailing Champ, 96
		Cunningham sailed in the 1958 Cup races off Newport, R.I., as skipper of the 12-meter sloop Columbia, successfully defending the America's Cup against the British challenger, the 12-meter yacht Sceptre.
		Cunningham spent his summers in the Northeast and learned to sail by the time he was 6.
		He is survived by his wife; a son, Briggs Cunningham III of Danville, Ky.; two daughters, Lucie McKinney of Green Farms, Conn., and Cythlen Maddock of Palm Beach, Fla.; two stepsons, 19 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2003-July/000438.html (626 words)

	Briggs Cunningham - Telegraph
		Briggs Cunningham, who died on Wednesday aged 95, epitomised the millionaire American sportsman: he was a victorious America's Cup skipper and a respected motor racing personality, having competed as a driver, owner and manufacturer between 1939 and 1965.
		Of Scottish extraction, Briggs Swift Cunningham Jr was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 9 1907.
		Cunningham sailed competitively at Cowes Week, but in 1941 he was rejected by the US Navy due to an asthmatic condition and because of his age.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F07%2F05%2Fdb0503.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=19075 (506 words)

	News-Briggs Cunningham
		Briggs Swift Cunningham, Jr.---American road racing icon, distinguished sportsman, competitor and racecar constructor succumbed to complications related to Alzheimer’s Disease on July 2, 2003 at the age of 96.
		Briggs Cunningham would leave racing in 1965, but not before amassing an impressive resume of accomplishments either driving or successfully managing others in D-Types, Masarati 61 Tipos, Listers, Corvettes, OSCAs, E-Type Lightweights and of course, plenty of chariots wearing his own badging.
		Cunningham won the 1954 SCCA F-Modified Championship in an OSCA, sailed to victory the 1958 America’s Cup, a 2003 inductee in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, Talladega, Ala.
	www.september8th.com /news_cunningham1.htm (595 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His Cadillac and Chrysler-powered Cunninghams were the scourge of American tracks in their time, winning not only the Sebring 12-hour in 1962 (the next American-made car to win that grueling race was the Jim Hall Chaparral, 12 years later) but a national championship at March Field that old timers still talk about.
		Later he established the Briggs Cunningham Museum which was world famous and a gathering spot for the very highest ranked personalities from the world of international racing.
		Cunningham also won the 1957 America's Cup as skipper of the Columbia.
	www.mshf.com /hof/cunningham_briggs.htm (246 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Briggs Swift Cunningham II (January 19 1907 - July 2 2003) was a racecar constructor, racing team owner, and racecar driver often described as a renowned racecar enthusiastâ”an American automobile manufacturer and collector, as well as, being a victorious America Cup sailor (skipper of the Columbia in 1958), and inventor.
		Briggs was inducted into the America Cup Hall of Fame in 1993.
		A Cunningham C5-R won first in its class in 1953 at the 24 hours of Le Mans Grand Prix and other Team Cunningham automobiles finished as high as third place overall.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Briggs_Cunningham (756 words)

	Through The Esses - From Briggs To Brian To Porsche; www.TheRaceSite.com
		The name Cunningham can be found in the record books of sportscar racing going all the way back to the 1950's when wealthy American sportsman Briggs S. Cunningham campaigned cars bearing his name in races across North America and at Le Mans.
		Brian Cunningham is the grandson of Briggs Cunningham and he too has established himself as a racer to be reckoned with.
		Cunningham is a man who takes great pride in the product he sells, and he is looking forward to putting that product to the test next season in the Grand Am Cup Series.
	www.theracesite.com /index.cfm?pagetype=2&form_article=10761 (299 words)

	Briggs Cunningham Biography by Phil Allen
		The elder Cunningham died at age 75 when his son was only 7, leaving a family fortune sufficient for Briggs to lead a privileged lifestyle and to develop his competitive personality through a variety of interests.
		Cunningham was leading the first qualifying lap as the cars entered the village streets when another driver brushed against a crowd of spectators, injuring 12 and killing a small child.
		Briggs had become a Jaguar importer at the beginning of 1956 and was the factory team for the United States with a trio of D Types.
	www.virhistory.com /vir/people/cunningham.htm (3151 words)

	Briggs Cunningham, The Cunningham Automobile Company - C4R - Home Page, Race Car
		Briggs Swift Cunningham Jr., a wealthy American sportsman and famed "America's Cup" winner (1958 - The Columbia), built America's first modern sports car in 1950.
		The three Cunningham C4Rs were built in West Palm Beach, Florida in late 1951.
		Like most Cunninghams, they were powered by Chrysler's mighty HEMI V8 and had almost 400 horsepower.
	users.rcn.com /edwardh.nai/chm1.htm (388 words)

	Guardian \| Briggs Cunningham
		Briggs also qualified for his private pilot's licence just before the outbreak of the second world war, during which he served in the civil air patrol monitoring Atlantic coastal waters.
		A year later, the ultra-sleek Cunningham CR-5, driven by Walters and John Fitch, disrupted the symmetry of a Jaguar 1-2-3 grand slam by finishing third, with Cunningham and Spear coming in seventh in a sister car.
		Cunningham's dream of winning Le Mans ended in 1955 when his prototype C-6R, powered by a 2.9-litre Offenhauser four-cylinder engine, lasted 18 of the 24 hours, but never ran higher than 13th.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4727278-110878,00.html (611 words)

	Racing Safety News - John Fitch Remembers Briggs Cunningham (1907-2003)
		Briggs Cunningham, Americas Cup champion and well-know auto racer and team owner dies at age 96.
		Lime Rock, CT - July 9, 2003 -- Briggs Cunningham, my boss, companion, mentor and, most of all, my friend, has passed on and, even though his last years were pretty much spent apart from all of us, the world seems just a bit emptier today.
		However, it was Briggs Cunningham who wanted to bring America to the front of road racing and he wanted to do it in an American designed car, built and campaigned by American engineers and mechanics and driven by American drivers.
	www.racesafety.com /news_detail.html?NEWSID=227 (513 words)

	Blog of Death: Briggs Cunningham
		When Briggs was five, his father died and left his son and daughter half of his estate, a considerable inheritance they couldn't touch until their 40th birthdays.
		Cunningham, who was very nice to me. Bill showed me a Ferrari on the show room floor and told me his mom raced her Lamborghini against that Ferrari which Briggs Cunningham drove and she won the race!
		Briggs seemed to be a very elegant, humble man who often gave spare racing parts from his West Palm shop to a friend of mine for his hot rods.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000097.html (1910 words)

	Briggs Cunningham - American Racing Tradition - A Brief Biography
		An event early in Briggs Cunningham's life helped shape his lifelong passion for autos and auto racing: as a youngster after World War I, he went street racing with his uncle in a Dodge touring car powered by a Hispano-Suiza airplane engine.
		The large and loud Cadillacs' impressive 10th- and 11th-place finishes won Cunningham the hearts and respect of the French, and from then on the team was a Le Mans favorite.
		Afterward, he spent much of his time managing the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum in Costa Mesa, California, until it was sold to Miles Collier Jr.
	www.briggscunningham.com /bio.html (595 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Racing, sailing were his fortes
		Briggs Cunningham, whose diverse technical and tactical skills made him an international champion in two sports – sailing and car racing – died Wednesday in Las Vegas.
		With Cunningham at the helm, Columbia defeated the prewar Vim in the defender trials, then routed England's Sceptre in the America's Cup.
		Cunningham is survived by his wife of 40 years, Laura, a son and two daughters.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20030705-9999_1s5briggs.html (411 words)

	GrandPrix.com > News > Briggs Cunningham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cunningham did not himself drive as his mother did not wish him to do so, but in 1940 he began building his own cars, the first being a Buick fitted with a Mercedes body.
		Cunningham was a founding member of the Sports Car Club of America and in the post-war era began racing himself.
		In the late 1950s Cunningham embarked on the task of winning the America's Cup for America and in 1958 defeated the British entry to win the Cup for the United States with his yacht Columbia.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns11434.html (532 words)

	Briggs Cunningham - American Racing Tradition - The Le Mans Era
		While attending Yale University in the late 1920s Briggs Cunningham had struck a friendship with the Collier brothers, Barron, Samuel and Miles; they were not sailors as Briggs was even then, but they shared his interest in cars and the friendship grew from there.
		In 1940, however, Briggs was again drawn into the world of motor sport by the New York World's Fair Grand Prix, in which Miles Collier drove Cunningham's "Bu-Merc Special" to second place before retiring against a lamp post.
		After the war (and his mother's passing) Briggs was free to engage in competition, so in 1948 he entered the inaugural Watkins Glen Grand Prix.
	www.briggscunningham.com /lemans.html (410 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Cunningham died Wednesday at home in Las Vegas from complications of Alzheimer's disease, said his wife, Laura Cunningham.
		Cunningham pursued yachting and auto racing with a fortune inherited from his father, a wealthy Cincinnati financier and early investor in Procter & Gamble.
		Among survivors are a son, Briggs Cunningham III, of Danville, Ky., and two daughters, Lucie McKinney of Westport, and Cythlen Maddock, of Palm Beach, Fla.
	www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/Obituary.asp?obituaryid=67866161 (182 words)

	Maserati 151 - 1962 Season
		Like the white and blue Briggs Cunningham cars, 002 failed to make the finish, Johnny Simone's team pulling the car out on safety grounds after suspension problems were causing excessive wear to the rear tyres.
		Installed by up-and-coming mechanic, Alfred Momo, Cunningham wisely entered his 151's in events where their weight disadvantage would not be too apparent.
		Despite what could almost be described as a final flourish, 1962 had been a disappointing year for the 151 and soon after Riverside, Cunningham sold chassis 006 (his 4-litre car) to Bev Spencer, a car dealer from San Francisco.
	www.qv500.com /maserati151p2.php (568 words)

	1960 Chevrolet Corvette C1 - Images, Information, Specifications, History, Ratings, and Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Briggs Cunningham, a famous American racer and sportsman entered three Corvettes into the 24-Hours of LeMans.
		It was Briggs Cunningham, a wealthy sportsman racer, aspiring car manufacturer and defender of America's Cup, who fulfilled Zora Arkus-Duntov's dream of Corvette competing at Le Mans.
		The Cunningham Corvettes were in near-stock trim, with larger gas tanks, quick-fill gas caps, Halibrand magnesium wheels, oil coolers, driving lights, racing seats and heavy-duty suspension components among their limited modifications - an expression of Duntov's philosophy of using racing to develop high-performance components for future production vehicles.
	www.conceptcarz.com /vehicle/default.aspx?carID=212&optionID=0 (494 words)

	OT Briggs Cunningham (archive)
		Briggs was there with 2 C3R’s, and his drivers, Phil Walters and John Fitch.
		Briggs came over to me, introduced himself, and asked me what the problem was.
		While they were doing this, Briggs inquired about me, about my love of my car, and then invited me to “take a couple of laps in his car with Phil.” They took off the passenger side tonneau cover, and I got in, put on the seat belt, and got the ride of my life.
	bimmer.roadfly.org /z3/messages/archive/msgsy2000w24/61328.html (639 words)

	grossman
		Cunningham approached Sir William Lyons to try to get disk brakes for his cars, but was unable to cut a deal.
		Cunningham and I both had long legs, so the seat position was fine for both of us.
		Briggs didn't like running with a booster, the brakes were direct acting and I had to push very hard.
	www.westnet.com /~mfrank/grossman.html (2659 words)

	salvadori
		Thank you for your letter and enclosures concerning the Jaguar Lightweight E Type, and because of my fond memories of the Briggs Cunningham Team and also the various Jaguars I raced in the course of my career I would be delighted to assist you in any way I can.....
		With regards to Briggs Cunningham's cars, the coupe I drove with Briggs to 4th position at Le Mans (ed note: 1962) had a 4 speed gearbox and the 5 speed boxes we used in the team cars for '63 were, I believe, the ZF gearbox, but I am not absolutely sure.
		Cunningham had entered a team of three E-Types and I was the fastest driver by quite a margin.
	www.westnet.com /~mfrank/salvadori.html (1183 words)

	Briggs Cunningham - American Racing Tradition - Car Register
		It is a register of Cunningham manufactured cars compiled by B. Bruce Briggs.
		"This historical register of the automobiles manufactured by the Briggs S. Cunningham Company of West Palm Beach, Florida, during the period 1951-1955 was undertaken because the compiler obtained a Cunningham (15443) and wished to trace its history in order to locate missing parts.
		He shortly ran into a dead end and was obliged to trace all Vignale Cunninghams to pick up the trail earlier.
	www.briggscunningham.com /registry.html (249 words)

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