[Spridgets] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

[lotuspilot at frontier.com]

Bud,

Thanks for taking the moment to let me know more about what had occurred.  I have been attending every year since 1985.  I would have started sooner had I known it existed.  I think the first years still had the learning curve any way.  I remember vividly the Corvettes doing battle on such a tight course.  Everybody that can attend should be there.  It is the highlight of every summer for us.  I will look you up.  I , actually my wife, will most likely have my Series one Lotus Seven at the BCD.  I have in the past brought both Bugeyes and Mk II Sprites.

I love Spridgets, As and Bs. However, there was a big pull do to the neat cars that you do not see any where else.  I can look at Spridgets and Minis every day.  I hope that the exotica comes back.  I will always still attend as I live in Morgantown, WV so not far to drive.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz at hky.com>
To: lotuspilot at frontier.com
Cc: "Spridgets" <Spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 11:34:35 AM
Subject: RE: [Spridgets] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

Mike,
It's hard to tell, at this point in time, what the long-term effect of the change in race sanctioning (PVGP became their own race sanctioning body, last year) will be.  Some of the VSCCA people were, shall I say, "less than understanding" about the change and VSCCA was attempting to stage a vintage racing event on the same date as PVGP.  That fell through, last year, but I don't know what they are planning for this year.  It is hoped that they will come to understand and accept PVGP's need to make that change and continue to support PVGP (there were still a lot of VSCCA cars there, last year, as I recall).
As I'm not directly involved with the "Race Side" part of PVGP, I haven't been paying real close attention to race entries other than MGs, so I'll have to check and see who else might be coming.
>From a purely spectator stand point, I am very happy to see the larger entries of production based sports cars, which I grew up with and raced, appearing at Schenley Park.  Interesting though the "seriously exotic" vintage racers are, after watching pretty much the same ones racing year after year (I've been attending since the inaugural, 1982 event), I am more than ready for some changes.
We can only hope that the unique and often quirky ones will return, again, in the future (maybe this year?).
One thing you do NOT need to worry about, with PVGP's Schenley Park races, is the (to me) sickening trend in "vintage racing" toward near-new Porsches, BMWs, Corvettes, LMP cars, and recently obsolete NASCAR racers pushing the true vintage cars out of the program (due primarily to reduced track time).  The Schenley Park course is just too dangerous for the modern stuff.

Be sure and look me up, Mike.  I look forward to meeting you.

Bud

-----Original Message-----
From: lotuspilot at frontier.com [mailto:lotuspilot at frontier.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 10:46 AM
To: Bud Osbourne
Cc: Spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

Bud,

I will definitely be there however I am worried at the direction that the event is headed.  One of the real unique things with the PVGP is you could look at a great many seriously exotic cars and watch them race.  The sports cars and sports racers that you do not always see.  Last year was mostly the run of the mill British cars and very little rarities.  Is this solely a result of the change in race sanctioning body?

Is this year different? 

Thanks for any information that you can give me for this disturbing trend.

Mike