----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Solow <Gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>
To: R. John Lye <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing
> I believe that part of the essence of "Vintage Racing " is the
> preservation of historically significant cars. It should also be for the
> preservation of any real race cars from the era that we want to designate
as
> significant.
> So if you can show that a car was really raced in a certain form with a
real
> sanctioning body, then I would say that it would be fair to race it that
> way. Fender flairs certainly change the appearance of a car. Whether
they
> improve or detract may be a matter of personal opinion, but I don't think
> that they alone are going to make a significant diference in a cars
> performnance. What bothers me are Dry sumped engines, oversize valves,
> oversize carburators (like MG-Bs with 2 inch SU carbs, they should run
the
> 1 3/4 inch carbs that were optional in the mid 60's), oversize engines,
> super lowered suspensions, altered suspension pickup points and radically
> altered geometry. Also non original transmissions, like datsun 5 speeds
in
> so called "sprites".
>
> Regards, Greg Solow
> ----- 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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