Has anyone seen an entry application yet?? I expressed a desire to run
this and submitted photos to cloverleaf and was told the car looked
acceptable and the apps would be out around the first of the year.
Just wondering.
Russ Moore
Spitfire #49
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of WEmery7451@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:49 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
Dear FOT:
Some of you expressed an interest in running in the Pittsburgh Vintage
Grand
Prix this year. I attended a Western, PA Triumph Association meeting on
December 13, 2003. At that time there was a lot of discussion that more
cars were
needed for this event (even Triumphs), but some of the rules were
disqualifying many Triumphs racing in vintage groups. On January 7,
2004, I took a copy
of Jeff Snook's message to the SCCA Steel Cities Region meeting to show
Mike
Connolly (McB Autos, 412-221-1922, bmconnolly@hotmail.com), who is on
the
organization committee for the PVGP. The following is a paragraph from
Jeff's
message:
> Group 4, one of our new groups needs to meet all of the VSCCA rules
but
cannot exceed certain bounds either. For example, no slicks, no flares,
no
> full cages, there will be a strict tire rule, at present Goodyear Blue
> Streaks, Dunlop L & R, Hoosier Vintage T/D & Hoosier's Street "legal"
> vintage tire. The cars may not exceed the SCCA rules for the car as
was
> printed in the competition rule book printed spring 1964.
My argument was that many vintage racers have gone the extra mile to
install
roll cages for extra safety, and are not going to take them out of their
cars
for a race. If I remember correctly, roll cages were not required until
about
ten years ago for SCCA, but there were no rules against installing them.
In
other words, any equipment that increased the safety of the car was not
to be
discouraged.
Mike told me that the roll cage issue is still being discussed, and that
no
final decision has of yet been made. He then suggested that the web
page
CloverLeaf.com be periodically checked. I tried to put in this address,
and it
didn't work for me.
Hope to see some of you in Pittsburgh. Good luck.
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