[Roadsters] Old time racers

[Paul Kort]

  Brass floats make great conversation pieces around the garage, but lousy
floats. They develop cracks and eventually sink.  And since they are
internal, no purist will get the chance to yell at you!  Go with the
plastic ones with the metal straps wrapped around them!

  My Dad was a big Jim Hall fan.  We went to a bunch of CAN-AM races at
MidOhio, Elkhart Lake (now Road America), and Watkins Glen.  I picked the
wrong corner to stand at one day at MidOhio, and as the Chaparral 2J
"sucker" went around, I got a face full of track marbles!  Hall was great
at coming up with new developments.  The old CAN-AM series was some of the
best racing ever!

Paul
Ohio


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Al Gottlieb <al.gottlieb at verizon.net>wrote:

> I agree with Stan that the old CanAm (and TransAm) racers were great.
> McClaren, Guerney, Hall, etc were fantastic.
>  Stirling Moss shows up every year at Monterey Historic Car Week in August.
> He's getting up there in age but still gets around with a cane and always
> attracts a crowd of well wishers. Saw him again last year in downtown
> Carmel-by-theSea for the free downtown car event as well as at the Quail,
> Concours, and Laguna Seca events. Sir Jackie Stewart was also at Quail as
> was
> Dan Gurney a few years ago(selling/autographing his Eagle Engine book).
> Wayne
> Carini was at Gordon McCalls event at the Jetport as well as most of the
> auctions. Jay Leno walks around many of the events and usually emcees the
> end
> of the Concours. Several years ago the Governator rolled into Pebble Lodge
> with his CHP escort for the Concours. Jerry Seinfeld was also eating lunch
> in
> The Lodge that day and had 3 cars entered.
> The Quail event has had some of Peter Brock's BRE Datsun roadsters on
> display
> before as well as a competitive off road 1600 roadster.
>
> FYI - Gerardo stopped by my house in Camarillo recently and dropped off two
> rebuilt SU carbs which both had the correct (level) float chambers. I'll
> find
> some time to change out the carbs mounted on the 67 1600 he sold me last
> summer and see if I can finally get this beauty running smoothly.
>
> Any thoughts on which are the better floats? (1st set of floats had new
> aftermarket plastic floats and the 2nd pair has brass floats). Should I
> float
> test the brass ones?
>
>
> Al
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