----- Original Message -----
From: R. John Lye <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing
> At 08:21 AM 9/23/99 -0500, Jack W Drews wrote:
> >Thanks for the breath of fresh air. My car is almost 1967 legal and
> >I'm proud of it.
>
> <snip>
> >> Greg Solow (or was it Stewart) wrote:
> >> My personal preference would be for the SCCA rules in force in the
1967
> >> GCR be used as a guideline for car preparation.
>
> I'm no longer involved with vintage racing, so maybe my opinion
> doesn't really matter. However, I do have a bit of a problem with
> this simple solution - and that is during that time frame, the SCCA
> wasn't the only game in town. There were several non-SCCA race series,
> especially in California I am told, that used slightly different
> preparation rules. So, insisting on 1967 SCCA legality is actually
> re-writing history by dis-allowing some "correct" vintage cars.
> For example, my TR-4 has steel flares that, according to the story
> told by a previous owner, were installed on the car in 1965 and it
> was raced that way in non-SCCA races in California. The stricter
> vintage clubs would make me take those flares off the car, even though
> they are, in fact, historically correct for that car in that time frame.
>
> Any comments?
>
> John Lye
>
> '59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
> email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
> homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
>
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