- 141. Re: Vintage eligibility & intent (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:09:51 EDT
- Remember when the Porsche was classified, if briefly, as a sedan? And the AMX, because it had no rear seat, as a sports car? Strange times indeed. Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00121.html (7,909 bytes)
- 142. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:15:12 EDT
- Hmmm - you've just painfully and expensively restored your unique sports racing car, say an early McLaren, and then what shows up next to you on the grid, but a modern 'vintage' sports racer with ill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00147.html (9,141 bytes)
- 143. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:41:39 EDT
- I have one race car that I have run for 28 years - it obviously predates the vintage racing scene here. The other one was built for a bit of regular racing, but primarily for vintage, albeit in about
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00149.html (8,885 bytes)
- 144. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:53:19 EDT
- I could be wrong, but I've never seen an absolutely faithful replica of the original, down to the frame, suspension, diff, engine, etc. If there was one, it might be a different argument, but the way
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00151.html (9,214 bytes)
- 145. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:36:08 EDT
- Or what? Full race Hino Contessas at dawn............. Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00156.html (8,839 bytes)
- 146. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:49:33 EDT
- Nor I, which is why I gave up writing and enforcing rules (except as a business) years ago. What, for instance, do you do with the guy who shows up with the Bugeye with the 215 Olds in it (verifiable
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00164.html (11,307 bytes)
- 147. Re: Vintage race cars built today (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:32:02 EDT
- I have to disagree with the first statement - I'm sorry, but I do not want to see (the possibility, at least, of) grids of kit-car Cobras racing with originals. I do agree that production cars should
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00183.html (11,089 bytes)
- 148. Re: MSD (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:43:23 EDT
- Yeah, but there isn't any need to switch chips once you have the engine broken in. You really just need a 'break-in' chip at lower rpm, and a regular race chip. And it is so much fun to innocently sw
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00255.html (8,072 bytes)
- 149. Re: MSD (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:55:33 EDT
- Best to 'can' the ego and put in a chip that is set for about 200 rpm over optimum shift point. It's only vintage racing, guys. If you need an ego boost, just set the redline indicator on your tach f
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00256.html (9,392 bytes)
- 150. Re: MSD (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:36:01 EDT
- Yeah - that's true, those damned 970 Coopers won't go much above 10,000 rpm. Even my buddies Ginetta would do better than that with it's Cosworth 1000. I'm sure your Chevies would do much better ....
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00260.html (7,707 bytes)
- 151. Re: Pedigrees, Exclusivity and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:24:14 EDT
- So does mine, especially as much of it is as I raced it 25 years ago. Sure wish the driver still looked like HE did "in period"..... Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00317.html (7,223 bytes)
- 152. Re: Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:12:18 EDT
- If your car didn't race 'in the good old days' with advertising, why the hell would you want to put it on now, unless you were trying to emulate/pass off as another famous car that did? I agree - the
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00337.html (8,808 bytes)
- 153. Re: Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:57:35 EDT
- Fine, but who decides what is tasteful? We can't even decide what rules we should have for eligibility! Bill (who is now contemplating accepting some serious sponsorship from the local porn video out
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00342.html (8,634 bytes)
- 154. Re: Bright Pink Pedigree (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:26:05 EDT
- Good God! Monochromatic malfeasance in the first degree! BTW, I should never be caught running anything quite as infra dig as an MGB, old chap. Bill MGA Twincam
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00346.html (7,578 bytes)
- 155. Re: Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:44:11 EDT
- Yeah, but just the engine, Chuck! Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00349.html (8,244 bytes)
- 156. Re: Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:14:58 EDT
- But other than that estimable lady, surely a pink car with advertising such as I suggested would be a phallus-y, subject to penile consequence? Really, though, unless our actual cars were decorated p
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00353.html (8,916 bytes)
- 157. Re: Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:28:41 EDT
- Not in your fondest dreams! And I don't know what fantasies go through your mind when you go out on the race course, but I am not pretending to be anything but what I am - an old club racer running t
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00357.html (8,850 bytes)
- 158. Re: MSD Pedigree, etc (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:27:58 EDT
- Of course the REAL vintage Sports coil is a encased in a finned aluminum jacket - I have one of these from a 50s race car that really looks neat, and even if the coil crapped out, it looks like you c
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00398.html (7,305 bytes)
- 159. Re: TR-3: Autocross, brake fade (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:53:07 EDT
- Good advice - make sure the end-float is within spec (not too tight, or they will heat up). Either your expectations were modest, or........ Actually, the TR is not too bad on a slalom course as it i
- /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00410.html (7,631 bytes)
- 160. Re: Maserati Ghibli SS (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:04:07 EDT
- NOW you tell me! I missed out on one 3 years ago, and then earlier this year ended up buying the Islero. I like the styling a bit better on the Ghibli, but the Lamborghini is technically more interes
- /html/vintage-race/2001-06/msg00058.html (6,867 bytes)
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