I remember reading many years after the fact (yes... I know some of you are
plenty old enough to have been well into your "adult" lives... I'm a mere
boy of 43) about the challenge held at Monza (I think) where they ran Indy
cars, Grand Prix cars, and endurance cars like C or D Jags. It's in one of
the old magazines I have... I'll dig it out.
Apparently the Europeans were surprised at how fast the Indy cars were...
and all the Americans were in awe (I think it might have been our recently
fender bashing Moss) of how fast the Europeans could lap in the rain.
Anyone remember this?
WST
Flounder
Team Thicko
----- Original Message -----
From: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>
To: Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
Cc: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: next year?
> Jack, and others --
> In the weekend prior to the Brian Redman International Challenge
> (which I'll always prefer to remember as Joe Marchetti's Chicago
> Historics, no offense to Brian) you can try being at the Milwaukee
> "Mile" in West Allis for the Annual Miller Meet. There you will find
> more than one 1914 Mercer Raceabout, touring among a fine field
> of prewar Indycars and prewar European Grand Prix & voiturettes,
> with a few postwar Championship Sprint cars and beam axle road-
> sters. This meet is now sponsored (by Briggs & Stratton) and is
> open to the public. Also, bring your helmet, since some of these
> oldsters in the Stock Block Indy years of the Depression were
> "due posti" (2 seat) you have the chance of bumming a ride for a
> lap in something like a Hudson or Studebaker straight eight Indy
> machine. I am not the official welcoming committee, but I don't
> think Mr. David Uihlein and the hosts will mind this post.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jack W Drews wrote:
>
> > Some day I'd like to see a race group of the really early sports cars.
> >
> > Have you seen at a 1914 Mercer Raceabout lately?
> >
> > This glorious beast was totally impractical, had no luggage space, no
> > weather protection, room for only two (does this sound familiar?) -- and
> > in 1914 the great Eddie Pullen won the 300 mile Corona, California race
> > at 87.76 mph in one.
> >
> > Too bad we seldom see stuff like this at our events. Wonder what it
> > would take to get a bunch of these on a track.......
> >
> > --
> > uncle jack
> > TR4 - 10 mpg
> > TR6 - 30 mpg
> > (plus a few other differences)
>
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