- 1. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Solow" <gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:54:44 -0700
- Dear David, Stewart's comments were directed at participants in "Vintage Racing," not SCCA "Current Racing". And therein lyes the distinction between "Vintage Racing" and " Racing Old Cars!" Vintage
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- 2. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:21:05 -0500
- Thanks for the breath of fresh air. My car is almost 1967 legal and I'm proud of it. However, I do run a modern alternator, modern starter, and non-visible electronic ignition, in an attempt to elim
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- 3. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:56:15 -0400
- <snip> I'm no longer involved with vintage racing, so maybe my opinion doesn't really matter. However, I do have a bit of a problem with this simple solution - and that is during that time frame, the
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- 4. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:23:32 -0400 (EDT)
- I'm not a vintage racer, but I'll throw this in the mix: instead of testifying the validity etc, how about a "claims rule" whereby some value is set for the various classes... that way someone can c
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- 5. RE: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:39:38 -0700
- My, all I did was whine a little and I seem to have opened a floodgate. I think by your definition I am definately "racing old cars", the only problem is I have been doing it at Vintage races. Herein
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- 6. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:34:51 -0400
- Yeah <grin> Well, that is the crux of the problem - and its been around as long as vintage racing has been around. I can remember this being debated back in the early 80's with no resolution in sight
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- 7. RE: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:36:22 -0500
- Speedvision recently ran a tape of the Monterey Historics from the early seventies. Anyone interested in seeing graphic evidence of how "Vintage" has evolved from "exhibition" to "racing" should see
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- 8. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: JFrymark@AOL.COM
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:07:48 EDT
- has Or you can watch a tape of this year's Historics wherein Stirling Moss driving a beautiful Aston-Martin DBR-1 puts two wheels+ off on the inside of Turn 2, tags a Lister-Jag, then T-bones an Ol'
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- 9. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Henry A. Morrison" <dos_gusanos@email.msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:51:09 -0600
- I think Ol' Sterile will be back in a Bugeye next year...............Cheers of
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- 10. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Solow" <Gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:49:58 -0700
- They didn't interview him at the track either! At least not for the public, and I didn't see him at the "awards giving" after the event either. Greg Solow -- Original Message -- From: <JFrymark@AOL.C
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- 11. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Solow" <Gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:04:31 -0700
- I believe that part of the essence of "Vintage Racing " is the preservation of historically significant cars. It should also be for the preservation of any real race cars from the era that we want to
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- 12. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@q1.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 07:38:57 -0400
- this has been a great dixusion. what we all need to remember is not that many cars were raced in the time period most groups use as a shutoff point. if all vintage race events were limited to cars th
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- 13. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 07:58:12 -0400
- Very true - I just find it, ummmm, amusing that a car that *was* actually raced "back then" is likely to be banned by many of the stricter clubs. Cheers, John Lye '59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+ email
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00164.html (9,284 bytes)
- 14. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. KASTNER" <kaskas@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 07:24:14 -0700
- I think it really amusing on how people think the cars were raced in the late 50's and 60's. Most of the production cars I have seen aren't even on the same page.
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- 15. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:16:26 -0400
- My car certainly is illegal for vintage based on other criteria - I'm not claiming otherwise (the rear disc brakes and roller rockers take care of that). Its just that the thing that would get it bum
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- 16. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:14 EDT
- << if all vintage race events were limited to cars that had actually been raced at a given time period, there would be SMALL fields and 1 or 2 car classes. >> <snip> Is this really true? Often more o
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- 17. RE: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: psr@mnw.net (PSR)
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:43:12 -0500
- <Or you can watch a tape of this year's Historics wherein Stirling Moss driving a beautiful Aston-Martin DBR-1 puts two wheels+ off on the inside of Turn 2, tags a Lister-Jag, then T-bones an Ol' Yal
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- 18. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: BillDentin@AOL.COM
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:48:18 EDT
- << Personally, I have no problem with vintage racing under an "8/10ths" rule - that's about as fast as I can go anyway :-) Amici: 8/10ths or not, Jim Hill had his TR6 going pretty fast at ROAD AMERIC
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- 19. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Henry A. Morrison" <dos_gusanos@email.msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:08:51 -0600
- If you watched the tape He did it .....................Cheers Henry Morrison --Original Message-- From: PSR <psr@mnw.net> To: JFrymark@AOL.COM <JFrymark@AOL.COM>; Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu <Jim_Hill@ch
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- 20. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: bwarner@mediaone.net
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:53:36 -0400
- Ted has hit the nail on the head. Dan Davis of Vintage Motorsport and I were discussing this very thing this afternoon. It ain't a lot of fun going to Savannah knowing that in the TR-6 I'll be racing
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