The "field cars" comment brought back some memories of Ireland. A few years
ago, my wife and I were visiting Ireland and spotted a notice in the window
of a grocery store that said "Autograss Racing this Sunday" and gave the
location. We thought it said autocross racing, so when we went to find the
track that Sunday we were not sure what we were in for.
Sure enough, it was an oval plowed out of a working pasture. Had to drive
the rental car through disinfectant because of the hoof and mouth disease
that year. First thing we heard when we opened the car door was the mother
in the car next to us hollering at her kids "I told you to watch where you
were walking!".
Anyway it was a great event. 60-80 cars from small sedans to rear engined
buggys made from front engined cars. They all had heavy metal mesh instead
of a windshield since the track had millions of rocks the size of your fist
in the dirt surface. The heats were only about 5 laps long and the
announcer sounded like he was calling a horse race - couldn't understand a
thing he said. Spectators were held back about 50 ft from the main straight
by a rope. Grassroots racing at it's finest.
Jim Norlin
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From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of WILLIAM TOBIN
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 4:50 AM
To: rikrock@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] Unusual TR-3
WOW! Does this bring back some memories!
I also went to the Glen USGP for the first time in '68; I guess that was
the start of my downfall. I still have my tickets, also. I swore that some
day I'd race there; 39 years later, I did the SVRA Vintage GP. Had a blast.
We called them "field cars" at my place. I had a '49 Ford and my pal Andy
had a '50 Chevy. Buddy Mike had something, not sure what. After our crops
were taken off one field, in the Fall of '66, I think, I made an oval by
using my dad's 8 foot disc. Had slight banking on the turns using the
existing terrain. We took the mufflers off and tied the doors shut for
safety and had at it. After a while we stopped to let the dust settle and
noticed several cars had stopped along the road to watch! Great fun. Un
fortunately, no photos.
Great photos.
As Bob Hope once said, thanks for the memories>
Bill----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:35 PM
Subject: [Fot] Unusual TR-3
> Sure to make the purists cringe!
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> http://formula-ccm.tripod.com/old-car-pics.html
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> Rich Rock
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