Out here in the west, we have a certified FIA Comet that ran the
East African Safari rally, and then did duty as a family car for
many years before going back to racing. John Kerby-Miller has a
whale (literally) of a time in it. For true dueling Titans, you
need to catch the action of the Fabulous Hudson Hornet of Ivan
Zaremba dicing with a '51 Caddy. Elephants on parade! ;=)
OK, so you were in a Sprite on the track with the Chevelle. The
Hornet-Caddy duel was being dogged by a group of 3-wheel Morgans!
I liken that to fleas chasing a dog...
Gregory Shulz wrote:
>By the way, at a Midwest Council vintage event
>(at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, IL) 10/16-17 I was
>in my '58 Bugeye Sprite competing with, among
>other things, a '64 (or '65) Chevrolet Chevelle coupe.
>
>It was a documented bonafide (sports car classed)
>racer from many moons ago. Not only was this car
>brutally fast and cornered like it was on rails - when
>he passed me I felt like I was being blown away by
>a 3 story building. (He was using leaded petrol, btw.)
>
>How big can a vintage race car be? What's the
>biggest vintage racer anyone's ever seen? A couple
>years ago at RA I saw a 50-something Mercury (?) sedan
>running around the track for some reason or another...
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