These photos are of the Desperation 500 event held in the high desert of Southern California.  I received them with a box of other FCCA materials donated by Randy York.  The photos have no information on them, but from the look of the cars, I’d say it took place in the mid-1960s.  If you have information on this event, please Contact Us.  Also, thanks to Terry Masci, who found the medallion pictured below in a box in his attic and donated it to the FCCA history archive.  He had no idea about its origin until he Googled “FCCA” and made contact with me!  Later I was contacted by Dale Deem who ran the 1962 and 1963 events.  Dale sent dash plaques from those events along with photos of the cars he ran.  You can view these below.

 

desperation500-1962

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