In a message dated 98-09-04 03:46:49 EDT, you write:
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Overall, I have been impressed with the Australian system and while I don't
think it's perfect, they do a very good job at maintaining the history of
cars and mostly keeping them as they were raced. One thing which they do
which would not be popular with the FIA or indeed in the UK amongst many
racers, is the system of making cars use the engines they employed in their
day. So, whereas if a, say the Crossle 5s* sports car had chassis running
Dart 2.5 engine, 1600 Ford t/c, Buick 3.5 - then the cars which had these
engines must maintain a similar block, i.e. unlike the FIA regs, cars cannot
all have begun life as 1600 Ford t/cs and then be upgraded to the faster
motors (like all those Lotus XIs which were 1100 endurance cars and are now
several hundred ccs more powerful and in "sprint" racing specification)...
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Doesn't this 'lose' many cars? I can see in a isolated country like Oz if a
bloke builds a car and runs it, it will be noted and probably recorded
somewhere. In the UK and Amurika where there were thousands of onzie twozies
it is more of a problem. I have and can think of many 'specials' that I've
seen that probably have no record. Just consider my Coffield Mk.III.
anexamination of the car indicates that it has been modified many times by a
craftsman and I would guess was racing before roll over bars were mandated
-since the bar is installed in a non-integral manner and of different
material. This tells me that it probably had a long racing history. I've found
another picture of a Coffield and found where it was built but so far nothing
more. what would happen in Oz? Michael*
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