Brian Evans wrote:
>
> >Simon challenged:
> >
> >Golf, tennis, and anything involving weaponry has clearly gone the route
> >you suggest. So what is your race car, a weapon of war to be made more
> >effective at defeating the enemy, or a relic to be dusted off and
> >exercised as it was, in the company of like-minded preservationists?
> Brian riposted (keeping the dueling theme going):
>
> Yes. My race car is both. And I see no conflict. I make my race car as
> effective as possible by tuning, tweaking, and learning, using materials
> and techniques current to the period. It's a living, breathing racecar,
> not a snapshot of a race car. In the day, they probably didn't race the
> same on Sunday as they did on Saturday, let alone over a period of
> years. They developed them as hard and fast as they could, using the
> technology they had access to, and within (mostly) the rules of the
> class. So I see no conflict if I do the same.
>
> What I don't do is re-create all the suspension pickup points to get
> computer optimised roll curves, put 6 pot vented disc brakes on a car that
> had drum brakes, etc. etc. etc. But if I put a 9/16" sway bar on the car,
> when the factory shipped it with a 1/2" sway bar - no problem. If I run
> different spring rates, or lower the car 3/4" in front, or use better brake
> pads, no problem. That's in the spirit of *my* vintage racing. running
> slicks on a 1965 sportscar ain't, running carbon fiber anything ain't,
> running big brakes ain't, running an engine that hadn't been invented when
> a car was made ain't.
> Brian
Well said again - Brian for Chairman and President?
Derek
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