Notes:
Paul Flickinger, a resident of New London, Connecticut, received severe burns when his 1.5 liter Maserati grand prix car's supercharger exploded and sprayed fuel into the driver's compartment early in his second run of the day up the Mount Equinox hill. He died five hours later in Putnam Memorial Hospital. His morning run earned him the third place trophy in the hillclimb, won by Bill Lloyd.

In a non-racing accident, Harry "Bud" Mason, 30, a cartoonist and television producer from Schenectady, New York, died in a late Friday night run up the hill when his sports car rolled on top of him.

Neither accident was classified as a traffic fatality because the entire route of the hillclimb, the Mount Equinox Skyline Drive, is located on private property.

Flickinger and his father, Paul E. Flickinger, both served in the Asian Theater with the Army Air Forces during World War II. Paul J. Flickinger was shown to be employed as an "Actor (Motion Picture actor) or Director, Motion Picture ... or Entertainer".

Back in the United States, Paul Flickinger attended the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, NJ, where he obtained his Master’s Degree in engineering in 1952. He had been at the Electric Boat for three and a half years, including a year’s training in atomic operations at Oak Ridge, TN.

Paul Flickinger had been active in SCCA racing in 1955 and 1956. He had won two races at Thompson Raceway's 0.5-mile track on 20 May 1956 driving the car in which he received his fatal injuries. In 1955 he had driven a Porsche Speedster in F Production competition, winning a race and breaking the class lap record at Thompson Raceway on 09 October.

Ha was survived by his wife, the former Yvonne Claire Butler and their six-year-old daughter, Maude. Also survivors were his parents Paul E. Flickinger and Ruth Matthews Flickinger Braden.

Paul Flickinger is buried together with his father in a cemetery in Seville, Ohio.

• 1920 United States Federal Census.
• 1930 United States Federal Census.
• U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946.
• Social Security Death Index.
• Newspaper The New York Times (New York City, NY, United States), issue of Monday, 10 October 1955, page 35, Special to The New York Times, article "Meyer Captures Sports Car Test", by William J. Flynn {surname spelled Flickinger].
• Newspaper The New York Times (New York City, NY, United States), issue of Thursday, 31 May 1956, Special to The New York Times, article "Maserati Auto Scores - Flickinger Wins Two Events With His Imported Car".
• Newspaper The Evening Banner (Bennington, VT, United States), issue of Monday, 18 June 1956, page 1, article "Second Death Mars Equinox Sports Car Test; Connecticut Racer Dies Of Crash Burns"; and page 4, article "Bill Lloyd Wins Hill Climb" [surname incorrectly spelled Flickenger].
• Newspaper The News (Newport, RI, United States), issue of Monday, 18 June 1956, page 5, Associated Press wire service, article "Race Driver Killed" [surname incorrectly spelled Flickenger].
• Newspaper The Day (New London, CT, United States), issue of 18 June 1956. [T]
• Website Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Johannes Gerber d 1777 Berks Co., PA, page http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gerberbarb&id=103397.
• Website Find-A-Grave: Paul James Flickinger.
• E-mail by Nicholas Teto, dated 11 February 2010, citing [T].



• This page researched and entered by E. R. Kelly, 30 June 2005; corrected and updated on 06 July 2007.