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RE: PVGPA Historic Races

To: vintage-race@autox.team.net, cfchrist@earthlink.net
Subject: RE: PVGPA Historic Races
From: "Mark Palmer" <mgvrmark@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:36:22 +0000
CHARLES!!!

This is NOT the event you tried to enter years ago ... this is a NEW event 
and your SAAB is welcome!

If you still have Ralph's e-mail, try to re-read it ... if not, let me 
clarify.  There are now TWO SEPARATE RACE EVENTS that are both part of the 
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix "Speed Week".

Race Weekend #1:  July 9-10 at BeaveRun Race Track, this is a new track 
about 40 minutes north of Pittsburgh, it is a dedicated road-racing course, 
modern design, very safe, lots of run-off, etc  This event is being called 
"the PVGPA's Historic Races (at BeaveRun)". We have FIVE VRG race groups at 
this event, plus one VSCCA race group.  This event is open to all vintage 
race cars up through 1972 -- including sedans like your SAAB, also Volvo's, 
Datsuns, Mustangs, Camaro's, etc and of course all production sports cars 
such as MG, Corvette, Cobra, Healey, Alfa, Porsche, plus we have classes for 
all formula cars and sports-racing cars through 1972.

Race Weekend #2 is the July 15-16 event at Schenley Park.  VSCCA is handling 
the race groups there.  I believe they have one race group for 1960-1964 
sports cars, or any pre-1960 non-VSCCA cars, and of course there are 
multiple race groups for VSCCA cars (Pre-war, post-war sports, FJr, etc).

Chuck (and everyone else on this list), one of the main reasons that the 
Historic Races were created, was to give people like you a chance to 
participate ... PVGPA has always been interested in the later cars, the 
sedans, the big-bore cars that could not run at Schenley Park.  To solve 
that problem, PVGPA created the Historic Races at the BeaveRun track, where 
all kinds of vintage cars can safely race.  It's not a matter of PVGPA 
changing their minds on your car, the fact is that now we finally have a 
venue where we can accomodate the later cars that always wanted to 
participate.  I hope you'll join us!

P.S. I already have one SAAB entered, a '68 Sonnett

Mark Palmer
VRG Event Chairman, PVGPA Historics at BeaveRun

>Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:10:51 -0400
>From: "cfchrist@earthlink.net" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
>Subject: RE: PVGPA Historics
>
>*sigh* you "want" 2 stroke guys?
>as i was told a few years ago when i TRIED to enter this event a number of
>years ago, by jake jacobsen" we'd prefer if you did NOT try to enter this
>event with THAT car"   i'll continue to boycott this event.
>thanks but NO THANKS!
>
>chuck.





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