Pix From Watkins Glen Historic Race
06-10-2003, 11:20 AM
#27
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Location: Westminster, MD
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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.
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.
06-10-2003, 12:03 PM
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: My BIG ol TURBO-DIESEL
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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-***'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$$$$$ Nascar Engine Builder) and had a 1990 Devin SS, Scarey Fasr and handled great. Was it a "Vintage" Race Car? Hell no!!!!! Was it neat? Sure, for what it was.
My tirade is the cars should be enjoyed the way they were raced back in the day. Not with Remote Pensk shock set-ups and super-stickey slicks....
Another Example: Ed Henning bought an original Devin SS Frame and Body from Bill Devin ( About 2 years before he died). They took the chassis, cut the serial number out.; built a whole new Chrome-Moly Chassis, Took a 57 Vette Block and heads( Sent them to some hi$$$$$ 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....
