Re: Blast from the Past

["Karl Rickert" <alfakarl@hotmail.com>]

>From: Jonathan Dove <JDOVE@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu>
>I have a video tape of transfered 8mm films that were captured from
>a friend of my parents back in 1965-67.  There are some shots of a
>gymkhana/autocross at a shopping center on a Sunday.  Even then seat
>belts and helmets were not required.  There is also a shot of the timing
>system that was activated by running over a hose.
>A segment of the video has some hill climb activity.  There lap belts and 
>helmets were the only required safety equipment.  And people competed in 
>their street cars also.
>
>Another segment is of a relay race at Lime Rock where teams competed
>against each other with race and street cars.  A handicap system was used 
>to equalize the cars.  After the race you see people pull off the taped 
>numbers their cars and drive home.

>You don't see things like that any more!

Don't they call that Showroom stock?


Karl Rickert
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