"That for which you have a spare never breaks."
Gee, I can tie in two current topics here. At the last Intermountain Vintage
Racing event of 2000 [ www.team.net/ivr ], I dragged out an aging autocross
Spitfire that I'd been meaning for some time to prep for running with IVR.
The distributor rotor broke. And of course, the Spit I usually run has a
Mallory dual point distributor, so spares for that were in the toolbox. No
original stlye Lucas stuff to be found.
But Jim Lacey, who runs a Porsche 912 with RMVR, had some old Bosch rotors
that with a bit of hacksaw work and some fine tuning by grinding on the
Wendover concrete, I got the car mostly running again. Jim and I were turning
similar lap times, we had a good time. Well it could have been better had I
realized before I got to Wendover that road race cars need better mirrors
than autocross cars, but it worked out, we're all still intact. I was
running low profile slicks, Jim had 60 series RMVR legal tires on his 912.
He could outrun me, I could outbrake and outcorner him. It was fun. I want
to go racing again, first IVR event is less than six weeks away, yikes, I
gotta get busy!
mjb.
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