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21. Re: CART & Open Wheel Racing (score: 1)
Author: "Reynolds" <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:00:15 -0400
The closest open wheel racing I've seen is from the cockpit of my Formula Vee. The pros are better drivers than we are but there are good reasons why they don't do much wheel to wheel stuff. Formula
/html/vintage-race/2001-10/msg00115.html (10,227 bytes)

22. Re: source for SCCA historical data? (score: 1)
Author: "Reynolds" <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:14:29 -0400
The roll bar number starts with the number of the Region where it had it's original logbook inspection. You can find the region numbers on the SCCA web site, and you can link to the region from there
/html/vintage-race/2001-10/msg00142.html (9,589 bytes)

23. Re: Aerial views (score: 1)
Author: "Reynolds" <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:54:22 -0500
I don't know if you can find it but Marlboro is still "there". The sagging grandstand is used for offices for a helicopter operation and most of the track has become the repository for recyclable veg
/html/vintage-race/2001-10/msg00174.html (9,133 bytes)

24. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:11:02 -0400
Back in the '50's I used to shoot muzzle loading rifles with my Dad. Of course they were real 19th Century rifles. A lot of others started to do the same; hold contests, etc. Didn't take long to real
/html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00181.html (12,317 bytes)

25. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:33:46 -0400
And I was recently told that of the 106 Lotus 23's made, over 400 are racing world wide. Since you can buy the body, frame, suspension, engine and gearbox as "repair parts", how can a tech inspector
/html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00184.html (9,656 bytes)

26. Re: what is vintage and who should...... (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:38:44 -0400
I had an interesting discussion on the grid at (race name deleted) with the owner of a 356 coupe made before 1955. He was shifting at 8000. No new technology in that engine, I am sure. Grant Reynolds
/html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00185.html (8,971 bytes)

27. Re: NHIS confirmation (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:48:17 -0400
You might try the FV net. However, I don't know of any active vintage vees in New England. Grant
/html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00233.html (8,188 bytes)

28. Re: Connellsville Airport (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:00:16 -0400
SCCA did revive it for a couple of years - maybe just one year - in the late 90's. It was very rought; the course design had serious flaws, and my crew voted unanimously never to go there again! I do
/html/vintage-race/2001-06/msg00128.html (7,143 bytes)

29. Re: zinc petite? (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:28:11 -0400
It may look like a Jabro but Ed Zink never copied anything. It is a Zink Z-4, built around 1964-65 before he get into his immensely successful formula vees. Bill Fleming is the best source. I have a
/html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00058.html (7,777 bytes)

30. Re: finding parts (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:16:59 -0400
Surely you have heard the saying, "there's no reason, it's just company Grant Reynolds
/html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00127.html (9,558 bytes)

31. Re: Crusader VSR Sports Racer (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:36:50 -0400
The Crusader VSR (Vee Sports Racer) is a two seat, full bodied sports racer built in 1964 by Chuck Tatum in Stockton, CA. Chuck had built a Formula Vee, supposedly the first one built after Formcar,
/html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00128.html (8,391 bytes)

32. Re: Aviation Gas (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:05:49 -0400
My formula vee engine builder, Mike Palermo, (Peak Performance), strongly recommends avgas for FV's. We use 100 octane low lead - a Vee's compression ration is ridiculous even for a street car - and
/html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00129.html (8,286 bytes)

33. Crusader VSR (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:57:42 -0400
There was a typo in my description of the Crusader. It has a 1989 SCCA Vintage logbook, not a 1969 one. Logbooks weren't issued until 1972 ( or maybe fall of 1971). Grant Reynolds
/html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00140.html (6,253 bytes)

34. Re: VMC (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:25:05 -0400
I never doubted that VMC meetingw are worth while. But why isn't there some regular dissemination of information, by email, internet, or article written for the few club newsletters, that tell the re
/html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00011.html (7,502 bytes)

35. Re: 13/13 and 7/10, etc (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:59:04 -0400
The ratio of crew effort to time on track is approximately 100-1(hours, that is) Grant Reynolds One-time Lotus 7 crew
/html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00040.html (7,330 bytes)

36. Re: jin ·go·ism (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:05:44 -0500
Comes from a 19th Century British music hall song: We don't want a war,but by jingo if we do, We've got the men, we've got the ships, we've got the money too! Grant Reynolds
/html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00039.html (6,656 bytes)

37. Re: Spitfire questions (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:01:40 -0500
Grant Reynolds (Vintage and now former SCCA vee driver)
/html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00244.html (8,413 bytes)

38. Re: Vintage Racing? (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:10:43 -0500
i don't see how racing an IT car is going to increase fan interst. They are only eligible for Regionals, few of which are open to spectators. Even fewer actually draw any. However, it is a good way t
/html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00245.html (8,979 bytes)

39. Re: Vintage Racing? (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:20:28 -0500
SCCA is a big place. All of those exist in some places and not in others. Cheating is not, in my experience as a driver and a steward, nowhere near as common as gossip about it. It is more agressive
/html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00247.html (10,807 bytes)

40. Re: Vintage Racing Rules and rose colored glasses (score: 1)
Author: Grant Reynolds <grant62@starpower.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:13:02 -0500
Hear! Hear! Well said, indeed. It has always been a truism in SCCA racing that the cheating starts at midpack. I've been an SOM at a number of engine teardowns, mostly the result of "that cheap car c
/html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00285.html (9,689 bytes)


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