Yeah, I missed seeing a whole bunch of my Brit car friends, this year. It
seems that I got drafted to help out with the Porsche Marque of the Year
festivities and I was only able to venture up the hill to British Car Day
for a short while on Saturday afternoon. Had a great time with the Porsche
356 folks, but my wife and I found that we really missed not being up there
with youns (Pittsburgheese for y'all).
By the time Sunday rolled around and we got that damn parade lap done (my
wife really wanted to do it, this year...but I only got the clutch fully
engaged in 1st gear about three times on the whole bloody lap!!!), we had
just enough energy left to find our chairs under a big ol' shade tree and
let our kids & grandkids bring food & refreshments to us the rest of the
day.
Next year, we'll be back on the hill for British Car Day & MG Marque of the
Year events, for sure!
Bud
From: miniac7 at aol.com [mailto:miniac7 at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:33 PM
To: abcoz at hky.com; Spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] MG is Marque of the Year at next year's Pittsburgh
Vintage Grand Prix!
Just got back the night before last, from this years running. Bud...I think
I missed seeing you. Great event, see you next year.
Howard Collins
Virginia Beach, VA.
'60 AH Bugeye Sprite
'68 Austin Mini
-----Original Message-----
From: Bud Osbourne <abcoz at hky.com>
To: Spridgets <Spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 3:07 pm
Subject: [Spridgets] MG is Marque of the Year at next year's Pittsburgh
Vintage Grand Prix!
Just wanted to pass this along to the Spridget community: MG has been named
Marque of the Year at next year's Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. This is a
huge honor (considering that the purpose of PVGP is to raise money for
charity and they always pick marques that are currently producing
automobiles) and a BIG DEAL.
For those unfamiliar with Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, it is the only
vintage sports car racing event running on public streets. Specifically,
the course winds it's way up, down and around beautiful, old, wooded
Schenley Park, with the races being the centerpiece of a huge party
celebrating vintage automobiles. It's a family-friendly event (my wife and
I brought our kids..the youngest at age 3 months..to the event every year
and now they come back with their kids), with something to amuse all of
them, whether they really like cars of not.
With PVGP now acting as their own race sanctioning body, the 60s and 70s era
production cars (Spridgets, Bs, etc.) can now race at Schenley Park. There
have always been a bunch of T-series MGs, as well as MGAs racing there, but,
now we are seeing MGBs, and Spridgets in respectable numbers, as well as
Minis (REAL Minis, I mean), Sunbeams, Lotus (Loti?), Lola, Elva, etc.
The region within a 100 mile radius of Pittsburgh offers some great
recreational opportunities (bicycling, camping, canoeing, kayaking, white
water-rafting), B&B lodging, historical sites/museums, Spridget-driving
roads, etc. You could spend two weekends watching vintage racing in
Pittsburgh, while roaming the surrounding area for the week in between....or
you could attend any/all of the PVGP-related events in and around Pittsburgh
during the week between race weekends.
The dates for the Schenley Park segment of PVGP are July 21 and 22, 2012.
Check it out at: www.pvgp.org <http://www.pvgp.org/>
Bud Osbourne
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