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Name:
Cliff Reuter
Favorite
Beatle:
George
Favorite
sport: Tennis
Favorite
tennis player: Pete
Sampras
Favorite pastime:
Old European Racing Cars
Favorite composer:
Vivaldi
Favorite author:
Alexandre Dumas
Dream
car: 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC
Favorite food:
Imo's Pizza
I
hail from St. Louis Missouri, my "mum" is from
Liverpool England home of the Beatles. My father, Jack
Reuter, is from St. Louis. I played a lot of tennis
growing up and shared my dad's love of
European racing cars. Over
the years we owned many of the most important European
racing cars of the 1950's and early 1960's. In 1991 I graduated from St. Louis
University with a degree in Communications and
Journalism. Shortly thereafter I stumbled
upon the Internet.
My
interest in European racing cars and my main web site, etceterini.com,
are a direct result of my father's (Jack
Reuter) love of 1950's Italian racing cars. He
first encountered them in the early 1950's while competing
in SCCA races. He was amazed at the beauty and sound
of the cars that were passing him (and his Austin Healy) and
vowed to someday own some of them. His dream came true
in 1965 when he purchased his first Ferrari, Dino
Ferrari's 1953 prototype 166 Mille Miglia, for $1,000.
But, while stationed at Fort Sam Huston in Texas in the
1950's and attending a race, he saw two small Italian racing
cars called Bandini. It was love at first site!
He spent the next 30 years or so trying to find one to buy
and finally succeeded in the early 1980's when he acquired
the only remaining Bandini Siluro with a series two DOHC
engine, 1955
Bandini Siluro 750cc DOHC #358. A few years later
he sold his 1957
Ferrari 500 TRC and 1954
Maserati A6GCS but kept his prized Bandini. This
web site is tribute to Jack Reuter's obsession with
etceterinis and Bandini in particular. The majority of
the photos and scans are from his extensive collection and
my recent collecting. I
would like to give credit to
the 1950's magazines I have scanned: Road and Track, SCCA
Sports Car Magazine, Car Life Magazine, Sports Cars
Illustrated, Speed Age, Trend Books, and Motorsport
Magazine. I would also like to thank friends who have
contributed pictures and information or helped to promote
this web site: Michele Orsi Bandini (Bandini),
Alex Vazeos (Bandini, Giaur, Abarth, and Moretti), Pete Vack (Veloce
Today.com), Mary Kuly (Bandini, Giaur, and ERM), Jim
Jenne (Stanguellini), Casey Annis (Vintage
Racecar Journal), Mark
Brinker (Giaur), Raffi
Minasian (Giaur), Alberto Taraschi (Giaur),
Marty Stein (Siata), Michael Ashley Brown (Volpini), Joel
Stein (Moretti), Marc
Richelsoph (Bandini), Dick Irish (Bandini and Siata),
Bill Giltzow (Taraschi, Bandini, Nardi, and Moretti), Steven
Silverstein (SCCA
race results), and Tom Clayton (SportsRacer.net).
And most importantly, I thank my wife Tracy and my son
Preston for putting up with my late nights and time/hours
spent on this web site. Cheers all!
Cliff
Reuter
Sept/Oct
2011 Vintage Motorsport Magazine Article
April
2010 Vintage Racecar Magazine Article
December
2008 AutoWeek Magazine Article
September
2007 Vintage Racecar Magazine Article
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