>From: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
>Reply-To: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
>To: Vintage Race <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>CC: Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com
>Subject: How big can a race car be? (Was: Unleaded and all that)
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:47:52 -0800
>
>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...
Back in the Pleistocene, there were a number of road race cars
fitted with aircraft engines. Among them was some Italian
creation that had a 15 litre engine. I may have been an Isotta.
I remeber reading an aritlce about it having an outing at the
Colorado Grand or some suche event like that several years ago.
Of the cars I'e acutally seen, the speed six Bentley I saw
running at the Philadelphia Historic Races was positively huge.
But, there was an American LaFrance racer that ran in a noontime
exhibition there that may have been bigger.
Greg
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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