Sounds like a VARAC mini...except they're not green. ;)
At 02:15 PM 09/15/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>The car is owned by Andrew Spraqnza and was accepted for the Pre-Historics
>until it got to the track! The car has been prepared to run the current La
>Carrera races. What a car!! Basically a space frame chassis, dry-sump oil
>system, trick high voltage ignition, drilled vented rotors with Brimbo
>calipers and it goes on and on. Lots of time and $$ spent on this car but
>its about as far away from being a "vintage car" as can be, certainly not a
>HMSA car! It certainly raised more than a few eye brows at Laguna.
>I hope this clears up the phantom MGA in Green.
>Cris Vandagriff
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Malcolm Cox <malcox@napanet.net>
>To: Ccanepa50@aol.com <Ccanepa50@aol.com>; vintage-race@autox.team.net
><vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:58 AM
>Subject: Re: CSRG weekend
>
>
> >> saw a dark green MGA with a fair amount of race patina and Mexicana
> >> Panamericana decals all over her, looked like it was in a sort of a
>impound
> >> limbo, as a curious car person I looked her over quickly and noticed it
>had
> >> no oil pan (read:drysump? but didnt see the oil tank), anybody got any
>info
> >> on that ride, did she get to run? chuck
> >
> >Never saw him after Saturday.
> >He also showed up at Pre-Historics. The scuttlebut is that he had told
>HMSA
> >about all the car mods, but they told him to show up anyway, which he did.
> >It seems that it failed to pass tech, for it was later seen on the trailer.
> >
> >Someone said it also had vented discs and non-mg transmission. It was a
> >twin cam as I recall.
> >
>
Brian Evans
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