Thanks for explaining Ron. When I first decided to convert my Sprite to vintage
specs I was thoroughly confused with my observations of "Vintage" cars, and I
was asking questions here. It seems like vintage is the only place that you can
be rewarded for flagrantly ignoring the rule book, and now it includes ignoring
the class tire size! I saw an ad yesterday by an SCCA driver selling his Sprite
and advertising that it only needs steel fenders to be vintage. This is a car
that was a trick limited prep H/P just a couple of years ago, and I suppose we
could see it at a vintage event now that the SCCA has screwed up H/P. For a
while I was upset at the lack of rules enforcement, but lately I'm thinking the
run what you brung approach will be fun. We are in the same boat though, I will
be putting an old school engine together, and with the full cage the car has
never weighed less than 1450 Lbs. That weight would be OK, but I am 40 Lbs.
heavier than when I
raced this car last! My summer is being consumed with this complete bare metal
rebuild, and is a repeat of my summer 30 years ago.
John
Fogelsville, PA
On Sat, 7/10/10, Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Speedwell Clip....
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>, "fastvee" <fastvee@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 10:37 PM
The seller of the bonnet is Dave Jahimiak, aka Dr. J., he of the fastest Sprite
in the country. White Trash can play with enough to make him notice us (I'm
starting to consider my second place finishes as landslide victories), but I am
giving away 45 horsepower and 160 pounds of dry weight to him(!!) per our
discussion this AM. He also has some unconventional suspension setups and was
running 225/45 tires on the car with bizarro custom offset on some $600
Compomotive wheels whereas us mere mortals are getting by with 185/60s.
Anyway, Dave is getting ready for the Kohler Classic (AKA the Brian Redman,
AKA, Chicago Historics). At Road America races what is sort of a Devin SS,
currently for sale for an optimistic $1.25M:
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