I went up to watkins glen to see the HSR race this weekend and provide some support to our customers. The star of the whole show was an ex-Michael Schmacher Benneton F1 car with a 17k rpm Cossie HFB. all these pic are non-zoomed, you get touch the cars and feel the power https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png



You guys should check out a historic/vintage race sometime. There is such a HUGE variety of stuff there, you'll need a druel bucket strapped to your chin. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

yes, he did drive it

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif look familiar?

now it does

sorry about the BIG pic, they look like **** small though

I know Banzai and J9 will like this one

sweet

i like red

check out the yellow mustang in front



dorifto!

2 gt350's

some guy in my town has a gt350 and a gt350 made into a gt500. hes at every single historic car show in town during the summer.



nice cars.



kevin.

that's my pops taking a interior shot of this 69 T/A camaro, shows you how cool vintage racing people are, sine he is working on his own car in the shot also

ive seen that z before, fire comes out of it

Porsche, ford, and chevy all coming out if turn 9

Goddamn man, I wish I had been able to make it out! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png



When you going to be up here next?

there is a event in august or early september

recognize the names https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

all your air cooled shitbox's are belong to us

99 Lola Champ car, Look at the exhaust exit, so nice https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/tongue.png SWEEEEEEEEEETTTT

a productive way to boost my post count

540 cui McLaren M8B can-am car, your heart shook when it passed by

its in gend your post count wont budge.



kevin.

ah yes, hence my avatar

lol

ive heard a couple maclarens too, your heat does skip



mike

Nice pics! I missed this event, but I try to make it for the Vintage Grand Prix that is usually the first weekend in Sept at teh Glen.



It looks like you stand in the same spot we do - down in the BOG! It is so cool to watch the cars power up hill out of that turn. Last year we saw a Porsche hit the damn ambulance that cam out to respond to another wreck. It tore up the car, but everyone was OK.

Vintage racing used to be kewl back in the 80's when it was a bunch of people enjoying old race cars. Then the collector car boom took off and all of a sudden Vintage Racing became a bunch of Snot-Ass's Racing Old race cars. I used to hang out with some guys who raced in SVRA (Back when Quattlebaum owned it). The Fall race at Road Atlanta was always a good time. I would go hang out in the lower Paddock with the FIART (Funny Itialian Automobile Racing Team). Get commode hugging drunk and race the next day on a blinding hangover. Then the money came rooling in. 1988: Bob Pass (Passport Transport) unviels his sons Austin Healey Sprite ( NO not a bugeye); Car cost 30K to build, here most people had 3-4K in their Bugeyes, Gueass what? It wasn't fun to run any more with some snot-nosed kid blowing past you on Daddy's Dime.



Another Example: Ed Henning bought an original Devin SS Frame and Body from Bill Devin ( About 2 years before he died). They took the chassis, cut the serial number out.; built a whole new Chrome-Moly Chassis, Took a 57 Vette Block and heads( Sent them to some hi$$$$$ Nascar Engine Builder) and had a 1990 Devin SS, Scarey Fasr and handled great. Was it a "Vintage" Race Car? Hell no!!!!! Was it neat? Sure, for what it was.



My tirade is the cars should be enjoyed the way they were raced back in the day. Not with Remote Pensk shock set-ups and super-stickey slicks....

i know a guy who knows a guy who built a type 35 bugatti from scratch in his garage and was racing it in vintage racing, it was nice too, it made the real one look fake



mike

does that make it an urban legend?

I've actually dropped the cap off the oil bottle into a Aston Martin DB4GT, good thing for bilge pickers

its true i have pics!



mike

To continue on about the greed that envaded Vintage Racing. The team I worked for part-time was owned by a gentleman who owned a string of Fast-Food Franchises. Abbout the time the bottom fell out of the Ferrari market, his wife caught him with the Interior decorator (in charge of the 6mill renovation of the house on King Street)and at the same time the Franchise holder audtied his hours for the stores. {with this franchise a owner has to spend X hours per week in each store}. SOOOOOOO: Wife sues for divorce is awarded 1/2 the assests, Franchise forces him to sell 1/2 his stores, and he lost his ass in the Ferrari Market. Fast forward a couple of months...

All the cars in the 50,000 sq. ft. wharehouse burn to the ground, fireman can't get in due to attack dogs that patrol the property.



Lets look at what was lost: (From memory)

Aston Martin DB4GT

Chevron B-16

Twin-cam MGA

Devin SS

Porsche Speedster

Acura NSX

Buick GNX

Mini-Pick-up ( Sorry mini-lovers)

5 various ferraris

Peterbuilt Tractor and 6 car hauler



and more

I went to the Zippo vintage grand prix at the Glen before...that was a shitload of fun. My dad's company had a hospitality tent set up on the grass in turn 1...nice and close.

the bugatti club is cool



mike

RX-7Club.com is kewl????

we went to a bugatti club meet once, they flew in i think 3-4 royales



mike

Buggati Royale = Rebodied locomotive

Buggati Royale = Rebodied locomotive [/quote]

yeah, but its got cockpit adjustable shocks, just like the new tiens



mike