> From: "Annis, Casey" <cannis@smtplink.Coh.ORG>
> To: jeh@world.std.com (jim hayes), vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: More musings on life, RACING and VARA!!!
Kudos to us all for an intelligent internet discussion.
I think we're on the same wavelength. Vintage racing can surely be racing if
we're gentlemen (and ladies). Organizers need to weed out those who feel the
urge to win at all costs. By reducing the recognition of winning, you can
increase the fun and reduce the need to police cheating. VSCCA has even
started a "preservation class" for those cars still street legal.
And certainly all GT-40s were street legal. FIA required a full size spare
and all legal street equipment for racing! In 1967, Toly Arutunoff, Bill
Pryor, Joe Marina, and a bucnh of us from Nashville prepped an Alfa Giulia
Veloce Spider and took it to Sebring. It had the top, spare, passenger seat,
etc. all in it during the race, whihc we had to replace because the SCCA
allowed them to be removed. The days of GT cars being F1s with enclosed
bodywork only began about 15 years ago.
Jim Hayes - Alfa nut
jeh@fotec.com tel:1-800-537-8254 fax:1-617-396-6395
Vintage racing '59 & '62 Alfa Spiders. Street ride: '57 Spider.
On the web: http://www.std.com/fotec/jim.htm
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
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