I believe that part of the essence of "Vintage Racing " is the
preservation of historically significant cars. It should also be for the
preservation of any real race cars from the era that we want to designate as
significant.
So if you can show that a car was really raced in a certain form with a real
sanctioning body, then I would say that it would be fair to race it that
way. Fender flairs certainly change the appearance of a car. Whether they
improve or detract may be a matter of personal opinion, but I don't think
that they alone are going to make a significant diference in a cars
performnance. What bothers me are Dry sumped engines, oversize valves,
oversize carburators (like MG-Bs with 2 inch SU carbs, they should run the
1 3/4 inch carbs that were optional in the mid 60's), oversize engines,
super lowered suspensions, altered suspension pickup points and radically
altered geometry. Also non original transmissions, like datsun 5 speeds in
so called "sprites".
Regards, Greg Solow
----- Original Message -----
From: R. John Lye <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing
> At 08:21 AM 9/23/99 -0500, Jack W Drews wrote:
> >Thanks for the breath of fresh air. My car is almost 1967 legal and
> >I'm proud of it.
>
> <snip>
> >> Greg Solow (or was it Stewart) wrote:
> >> My personal preference would be for the SCCA rules in force in the
1967
> >> GCR be used as a guideline for car preparation.
>
> I'm no longer involved with vintage racing, so maybe my opinion
> doesn't really matter. However, I do have a bit of a problem with
> this simple solution - and that is during that time frame, the SCCA
> wasn't the only game in town. There were several non-SCCA race series,
> especially in California I am told, that used slightly different
> preparation rules. So, insisting on 1967 SCCA legality is actually
> re-writing history by dis-allowing some "correct" vintage cars.
> For example, my TR-4 has steel flares that, according to the story
> told by a previous owner, were installed on the car in 1965 and it
> was raced that way in non-SCCA races in California. The stricter
> vintage clubs would make me take those flares off the car, even though
> they are, in fact, historically correct for that car in that time frame.
>
> Any comments?
>
> John Lye
>
> '59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
> email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
> homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
>
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