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Roll bar yes as an option from the SA accessories list early on (the front extensions that hug the front windshield don't look like they are there in the October 1965 grainy photo)....roll cage no in 1965....cages didn't start to be the norm until 1967 and on at least in SCCA.

The Gimble car was a Lotus 19B also known as the Pacesetter Special.

Bill...you should mention exactly where the pad is located.  From your photo and the original poster's photo, the pad looks to be located directly under the passenger's side front part of the head, at the top right corner of the cylinder block next where the timing chain cover is...ie where the red arrow in the original poster's photo is pointing to.

Yes, that is the former Chet McFallo/Gary Kadrmas Cobra....

Don't forget the in the buff (unpainted-raw in aluminum) as first introduced to the public, early Christy test articles, etc.

It doesn't look like there are any AC Ace's in the provided photo...looks like a couple of roadsters and coupes...looks the earliest release of the Yates book is around January 1954?

3-25-66-Sebring:
#1-Dick Thompson (Koons Ford)-owner is James Sutter-dark blue (two months down the road a color change to maroon? and a few exterior body changes)
#4-A.J. Foyt-owner is Dale Wood (running Amalie Oil sponsorship)-white with red and blue center stripes
#5-Ed Diamond (Nagle Ford, Inc.)-dark blue

6-12-66-Mid-America
#19?-John McComb/Peter Talbert (Wiebel Wines)-white, wide red and blue center stripes
#78?-Russell Norburn/Peter Feistmann-white (#57 on entry list)(SA build #10)
#38?-Fred van Beuren/Dale Wood (Dos Caballos Team)-white, thin red and blue center stripes (#14 on entry list)

7-10-66-Bryar
#36-Robert Arego/Ken Duclos-white (SA build #4)-owner is Toni Fucci

7-31-66-VIR
#22-Dick Thompson/James Sutter-maroon (change from Sebring color of dark blue?)

8-14-66-Marlboro
The following cars were not at the race:
Fred van Beuren, Dale Wood, Phil Halbert...accident damage shown in the following video of the #5 Peter Gregg/Russell Norburn/Peter Feistmann (SA build #10)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ud52MhRosA

9-10-66-Green Valley
#8-Fred van Beuren/Ruben Novoa (Dos Caballos Team)-dark blue?-(photo of car looks just like a Shelby build and there isn't much history on this Mustang-Jerry Melton photo):
#14-Dale Wood/Gary Dundas (Dos Caballos Team)-white, red and blue center stripes
#?-Don Pike/John Timanus-dark blue, two white medium center stripes

9-18-66-Riverside
#1-Jerry Titus-white (SA build #9)
#14-Ron Dykes/Steve Froines-light blue (SA prototype)
#33-John McComb/Brad Brooker-white, twin blue center stripes (SA build #12)
#69-Don Pike/Scooter Patrick-dark blue, two medium white center stripes (jammed starter)
#3-Bob James/Doug Hooper-dark blue, two thin white center stripes
#10-Phil Halbert-blue
#9-Ray Wolff/Chuck Cantwell-orange
#4-Bill Jones/Bob West-green

#13 is 3020 (427 Comp Cobra).

Here's another unique rear deck lid spoiler....shot after the 1966 Sebring 12-Hours with part of the damaged Comstock Racing GT40 as a souvenir.

https://library.revsinstitute.org/12-hours-of-sebring/285044

You would think the writers of these articles would at least post the correct photo for the event mentioned (Green Valley, Tx.-February 14th, 1965), not a photo of Dick Carters 1965 GT350 at Laguna Seca at least....

The Cobra should be csx3018 at El Mirage just after it's winter break refresh (body and engine) due to an incident at the 1966 Road America races (not sure if incident happened at the June or September event).  El Mirage as mentioned earlier by another poster due to dust instead of Salt Lake crust.

SunDude most likely nailed it on the #60....the same number font is used in period....as in the link to this photo from the 1963 Dodger Stadium races:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/6596268129/in/album-72157628625088167/

Enjoy, Kranky

"The Henry Ford" collection of the Dave Friedman photo collection is a little bit better than the Vault at the moment....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/collections/72157628488413505/

I think the deal with Stanford University ended several years ago....their part of the deal was scanning in a vast amount of the photo collection and organizing parts of the printed collection also.  Here's the link to Rev's Institue's website:

https://revsinstitute.org/

To SunDude:

It's the September 1963 St. Eugene sports car races for Eppie (2002).