Search results
Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, [1] (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a British-born American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child of heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband, Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow.
Jul 26, 1972 · ASPEN, Colo., July 25 (UPI) —Lance Reventlow, heir to the Woolworth fortune and son of Barbara Hutton, one of the world's richest women, was killed with three other persons yesterday in the...
Apr 12, 2023 · The pilot of the small single-engine plane, a Cessna 206, lifted off from the Aspen, Colorado airport on July 24, 1972, a little before 6 p.m. One of the three passengers, Lance Reventlow, wanted to look at a piece of property he was interested in buying near his Aspen home. He could afford it.
Sep 12, 2022 · In creating the Scarabs, Lance Reventlow did a great thing. He took his vast fortune and built a world-beating race car that made history.
Mar 24, 2022 · Frustratingly, even before the first chassis was finished, playboy Lance Reventlow’s racing dream was crushed by the new regulations. The long-held American ambition to win outright ‘across The Pond’ had to wait for the arrival of Henry Ford’s GT40 sortie.
Oct 12, 2023 · Lance Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, born in 1936, ran in Hollywood circles. His mother, Barbara Hutton, inherited the Woolworth department store chain and was considered the wealthiest woman in the world at that time.
Jun 19, 2014 · Lance Reventlow drives the Scarab F1 car at Riverside, 1960. Perhaps seeking more prestige or merely more speed, Reventlow abandoned the California sunshine for a season racing a rented Cooper Formula 2 car in Britain.
Aug 24, 2018 · On his 21st birthday, The New York Times reported, Lance Reventlow inherited $25 million, as well as his choice of American, British, or Danish citizenship. “I thought it over for a full 20 seconds,” he said, and signed with the Yankees. A lucky choice it was for American race fans.
Last year Driver Reventlow set about something constructive: developing an American sports car that could challenge the long supremacy of Europe’s powerful racing machines.
Oct 1, 2008 · Remembering Lance Reventlow. Lance Reventlow in his 300SL (#216D) leads Jerry Austin’s Jaguar XK120 (#133), Paul O’Shea (#33 300SL) and Charles Short in his T-Bird...
Related searches
