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201. Re: Brake Line wrap-up (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:46:46 EST; Yes, but in a conventional installation, the steel lines must be tied down so they DON'T move, and cannot fatigue. They then last essentially for the life of the car, assuming the absence of corrosio; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00179.html (8,311 bytes)
202. Re: Tow vehicles again (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:16:43 EST; I stated racing with a 68 Chrysler station wagon, and it threw a rod on me near Cottage Grove Oregon on the way back from Laguna, where my Twincam had broken a spark plug (not my best year). I used t; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00196.html (8,737 bytes)
203. Re: Tow vehicles (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:42:04 EST; Best pair I ever saw was a Nash Metropolitan (show, not race, car) towed by a Nash Statesman (I think) - the large version of the car being towed. Only a couple of other large/small combinations like; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00202.html (6,907 bytes)
204. Re: MGB Brake pads (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:55:36 EST; Is Steve Earle still as tight on originality? I can't imagine him allowing that sort of mod. Allowing some upgrading on the A's certainly makes it a bit easier to find parts, but aside from a run of; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00222.html (8,231 bytes)
205. Re: MGB Brake pads and other interesting stuff (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:12:40 EST; Hey now - then they'd have to make the Alfas all run 1600 and 1750, instead of 2000, and the Porsches - God knows what they run - I think there is some secret contest sometimes, and the guy with the; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00226.html (8,535 bytes)
206. Re: MGB Brake pads (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:12:32 EST; Oh, Man! That's like hearing that your first grade teacher is having an affair with the local lothario - say it isn't so! But then I do recall that Steve had a bit of a moveable set of rules - when P; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00227.html (7,883 bytes)
207. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:36:40 EST; Sure, the first guy, but what about the rest of them? I understand that the Porsche guys have been allowed to use later engines at Seattle, claiming that it is hard to find the proper original 2 litr; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00231.html (9,847 bytes)
208. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:45:49 EST; That's another, and different, issue - many (most?) people now vintage racing never raced in SCCA or CASC racing. Many of them are out there having a high speed tour - I call them roving chicanes (RC; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00237.html (9,210 bytes)
209. Re: Racing (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:39:47 EST; You are missing the point, Mark. I was describing what real racing IS. If these attentive vintage racers are running at less than 9 or 10/10ths, they are merely attentive and aware (which is GOOD, mi; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00241.html (9,217 bytes)
210. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:34:55 EST; Yes, I know - I'm one of them, when placed in a much faster grid. I agree - if you are doing it right, there should be very little contact. Body contact happens when someone fails to 'do it right'. I; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00251.html (13,110 bytes)
211. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:51:36 EST; My suspicion as well, Doug. We both have harder to find stuff in our cars. The Porker drivers could find the stuff if the wanted to try. BTW, I've always liked the S800 - used to beat one regularly i; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00254.html (9,149 bytes)
212. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:02:36 EST; Just what I would hope everyone in vintage would do - I certainly would, though likely muttering imprecations into my Nomex). I've been using SCCA, as it's more familiar to most on the group, even th; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00255.html (10,386 bytes)
213. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:52:01 EST; Ha ha! My hill climbing career was early on - back in the 70s, at Victoria Observatory hill and Ioco near Vancouver. I'm not sure I was capable of any 10/10ths in those early days! The driver was Ian; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00266.html (9,992 bytes)
214. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:33:24 EST; Good synopsis, Dick. Let me add one example of 'lawyering'. I was on the executive of the local MG/Jag club some years ago. I AM a lawyer, and could read the rules the club had for concours in a crit; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00302.html (10,661 bytes)
215. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:58:51 EST; We had a guy with a big Healey that did this back in the late 70s. We all helped push the damned thing (and are those Austin Lorries ever heavy) for a race or two, and then suggested that he either s; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00309.html (9,053 bytes)
216. Re: Rules and 'Cheating' (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:03:23 EST; That nicely defines a lawyer's job. Indeed - trying to sell a bill of goods to someone that has heard it all before - either a criminal lawyer, or just about anyone coming home late after a night wit; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00334.html (7,865 bytes)
217. Re: RHD (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:34:47 EST; I think it is really driver dependent - some will have difficulty and some won't. I've raced a RHD TR2 with no problem, and drive an admittedly automatic RHD Jensen CV-8 on the street - the only prob; /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00368.html (7,796 bytes)
218. Re: Transplants (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:13:30 EST; To me, if a car was originally built with an engine, it isn't a transplant. If you took an Allard Palm Beach with 6 cylinder engine, and inserted a V8, THAT would be a transplant. And if it was built; /html/vintage-race/2000-12/msg00007.html (7,784 bytes)
219. Re: Transplants (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:37:04 EST; Do you mean the Twincam engine in the Healey 100 that was designed by Mr. Hunter, who later was convinced that MG stole the idea from him for use in the MGA Twincam? I think there were 3 running engi; /html/vintage-race/2000-12/msg00008.html (8,030 bytes)
220. Re: Modifications (was: RE: Mechanical Failures) (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:48:19 EST; Was that Tony's double flip front/back lightweight racer? I know of the car, and wondered if it would ever make the track again. If so, that one seems to have the history, and it's hard to argue with; /html/vintage-race/2000-12/msg00009.html (8,344 bytes)

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