Re: Porsche tractor

[JWoesvra@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-08-20 15:31:20 EDT, Vaughn.Rockney@geis.ge.com writes:

<<  Since this isn't a vintage race topic, please
 reply directly if you know more about Leyland Tractors and where to buy
 one.. >>

If you have ever been to the SVRA Blue-Grey Challenge at Summit point you
would realize that this IS a vintage race topic. We have a vintage tractor
race on Sunday at lunch time. It is a handicap race with the tractors
qualifying on Sat. with their best time in road gear over a measured distance.

For the race the tractors are spaced around the track with the fastest having
to go almost a whole lap to the finish. Some of them are so slow that they are
literally within sight of the finish. One year a guy with an old lawn tractor
pulling a gang of reel mowers would have won, but the judges decided that he
had missed a spot of high grass just short of the finish. By the time he went
back and got it, several other "real" tractors had crossed the line.

The fastest is usually an Oliver row crop with a hemi V-8. He reportedly can
do over sixty in a straight line. He rarely can go that fast because it gets
rather unstable with the row crop front wheels.

So don't worry about getting of the vitage race topics.

JW