> >I was just out in the garage lavishing some well-deserved attention on
> >my '80 Spitfire, when the little "SCCA National Champion" plate on the
> >dash caught my eye again. I've meant to ask about this before, but
> >never seem to remember...
> >
> >Anyway, it claims that the Spitfire was the "SCCA National Champion"
> >in 1965 and 68-78... a grand total of 13 years. Sounds impressive
> >to me. Could someone provide some details? Like what kind of racing
> >was this? What happened in '79? Are there any other cars with such
> >a seemingly impressive string of successes?
> >Eric
> The Spitfire was in class F in the "production" based SCCA sports car racing.
> Early 1200/1300cc Spitfires also ran in Glass G. They were very
> competitive in those classes (actually there weren't too many other
> makes/models that raced in those classes either. Many F production races
> were an entire field of Spitfires with but a small sprinkling of other
> marques.
> Bill
I met a fellow this past weekend named Dick Rose. He claims to have once
been the owner of a large Southern California Triumph dealership and provided
the cars for these events... He also claims that his cars held several records
at Laguna Seca for a number of years.
In any event he told me that he still has a number of the original Triumph
competition manuals that he's looking to get rid of... May I should try to
hunt him down.
-Steve-
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