At 08:21 AM 9/23/99 -0500, Jack W Drews wrote:
>Thanks for the breath of fresh air. My car is almost 1967 legal and
>I'm proud of it.
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>> Greg Solow (or was it Stewart) wrote:
>> My personal preference would be for the SCCA rules in force in the 1967
>> GCR be used as a guideline for car preparation.
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 SCCA
wasn't the only game in town. There were several non-SCCA race series,
especially in California I am told, that used slightly different
preparation rules. So, insisting on 1967 SCCA legality is actually
re-writing history by dis-allowing some "correct" vintage cars.
For example, my TR-4 has steel flares that, according to the story
told by a previous owner, were installed on the car in 1965 and it
was raced that way in non-SCCA races in California. The stricter
vintage clubs would make me take those flares off the car, even though
they are, in fact, historically correct for that car in that time frame.
Any comments?
John Lye
'59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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