I heard you were actually really fast at Road America from the onset,
but kept stopping to get a Johnsonville Brat.
It was either that or you kept getting lost and had to stop for
directions.
Although, I think I have a picture somewhere of a Brat being thrown over
the fence to you.
BTW, my Team Thicko Tattoo just wore off last Saturday night. Have you
got anymore?
Regards,
> ----------
> From: Wm. Severin Thompson[SMTP:wsthompson@thicko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 5:53 PM
> To: Wrtr@aol.com
> Cc: mra@sympatico.ca; vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Bugeye Sprites w/ 1275cc at SVRA
>
> To all,
>
> When I first ran my time capsule Stage V Sprite in vintage racing 5
> years ago, it ran exactly as run in 1961.
>
> Many races I couldn't keep up on the pace lap. Sad to hit the start
> line
> at Road America while the leaders are already in turn 5....
>
> That car ran 3:42s there. My current 948 MKII Sprite which has been
> consistantly the most legal car in the organizations I race with
> including VSCDA, SVRA, and CHR, runs 3:02. It's legal, but they didn't
> look or run like that in '62.
>
> WST
> Team Thicko
>
> WST
>
>
> Wrtr@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike;
> >
> > <Snip> Off and on I have been doing this for 16 years and,
> > after a time in the beginning trying too hard to modify my cars to
> > make them
> > go fast, I have learned to do a bunch of research, find out what the
> > car
> > would have been like in the years it was built, and prepare it that
> > way. It
> > means drum brakes and skinny street tires and lever shocks and it
> > means I run
> > around the track in the back half of the grid, frustrated sometimes
> at
> > the
> > guys who park in the corners after rocketing by me on the straights.
> > But at
> > the end of the day, I've always had fun and that's really why we do
> > this.
> >
> > Kevin Clemens
> > 1952 MG TD
> > 1927 Chrysler Model 70 (A new project for VSCDA Group One!!!)
>
>
>
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