I guess where this all started was an Art Eastman idea for creating new, old
style modifieds, that had they been built back then but weren't, would fit
into the sports racer class.
A few years ago I was offered a Berkley body-chassis unit, but the little
two stroke mouse motor was gone, and besides, I'm not the biggest fan of
FWD. I'd also seen a 750 Climax motor the last trip over to UK and
remembered a Fiat 600 transaxle in a back corner of my father's garage. All
pre-1960 stuff. I still think it'd be a neat toy and to me would have been
the kind of thing some H mod guy could have done. But, I'll never finish al
the projects I've already got.
Roger
>From: Mike Rosen <mikerosen@home.com>
>Reply-To: Mike Rosen <mikerosen@home.com>
>To: Roger Sieling <sarl45@hotmail.com>
>CC: hayes@mediaone.net, peterv@tri-county.main.nc.us,
>mcobine@earthlink.net, vintage-race@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: 13/13 and 7/10
>Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:53:04 -0500
>
>You're certainly right on that!
>I race 1958 Canada Class Sports racing special - 948 A Series powered. With
>the
>15" 4.50&5.0 L Dunlops,drums all around and unadjustable (except for
>toe-in)
>Morris suspension, I can sometimes (but seldom) run a faster lap than a
>good
>948 Sprite running as they do today...It's totally a labour of
>love...certainly
>not the fastest way to get around the track.
>
>Mike Rosen
>
>Roger Sieling wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > You obviously don't run a sports racer. Most good street sports cars can
> > easily be over prepared to out run pre 1960's sports racers. A bored out
> > 1275 in a frog-eyed Sprite shell on coilover suspension and supper
>sticky
> > radials has it all over a car on period suspension designed for and
>using
> > Dunlop 4.50L15s. And it can be put together for far less money. So a
>logical
> > person would question why anyone would restore an old Lotus Eleven, Lola
>Mk1
> > or Elva Mk2-5 etc, much less say a Maseratti 150S, when you can go so
>much
> > faster for your buck.
> >
> > I don't really know the answer to that question, none of us do. Lets
>just
> > call it passion, and that is what vintage racing is all about!
> >
> > Roger Sieling
> >
> > >From: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
> > >Reply-To: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
> > >To: Peter van Rossum <peterv@tri-county.main.nc.us>
> > >CC: Mike Cobine <mcobine@earthlink.net>, vintage-race@autox.team.net
> > >Subject: Re: 13/13 and 7/10
> > >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:07:20 -0500
> > >
> > >True. So why complain about over preparation. Let them run with the
> > >sports racers.
> > >J
> > >
> > >Peter van Rossum wrote:
> > > >
> > > > SCCA rules, I Think Refer to this as sports racers it is all ready
> > >covered
> > > > in the handy dandy GCR P.V.R.
> > > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Jim Hayes
> > >hayes@mediaone.net http://www.JimHayes.com/
> > >All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are
>false!
> >
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