From sevenamerica at yahoo.com Fri Jan 9 09:24:12 2009 From: sevenamerica at yahoo.com (John Donohoe) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Vintage-race] SimpleSevens -- Remember the 50 Years of the Seven? Message-ID: <215487.86678.qm@web110716.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Finally posted my photos! http://www.simplesevens.org/50Years/50YearsGallery.htm Enjoy, John Donohoe SimpleSevens.org From malcox at earthlink.net Sat Jan 10 14:03:01 2009 From: malcox at earthlink.net (Malcolm Cox) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:03:01 -0800 Subject: [Vintage-race] Porsche parts and tools References: <215487.86678.qm@web110716.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <570E41FFDDB04C8D8744AC3E70D6ADB1@malc> I recently met a neighbour who's son had recently died. He was apparently an experienced Porsche mechanic, and had been involved with racing Porsches. He left behind many Porsche related tools (and perhaps parts) I understand. My neighbour has no clue about what is there is and how best to dispose of the stuff and asked me if I had any contacts who could help. Sooo, if anyone can put me in touch with a Porsche guru (or list), I would be grateful. (I am an MGA man myself) We are located in Napa county in the northern San Francisco Bay area. Malcolm Cox From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sun Jan 11 11:00:00 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:00:00 -0500 Subject: [Vintage-race] BeaveRun 2009 Message-ID: By now most have you have gotten the blast I sent about the 3 must do races for 2009. Now I want to zero in on the one the means the most to me. PVGPA/VRG Historic Races at BeaveRun. Good chance many of you have met me either at one of the PVGPA events or at some other vintage race so you know I look at this event both from the PVGPA side of it and what they need to keep the sponsors and all happy and from the driver (and my wife makes sure I remember the spectators and crew) side of it. I think we have come up with a pretty good balance at BeaveRun. If you take advantage of all that is offered over the 3 days you get a ton of track time, good parties and plenty to see and do and surprisingly it all seems to go pretty much according to plan and schedule from getting you in and parked to making sure your trailer tire gets fixed so you can head out on time. I even have the driver's meetings down pretty pat and for the most part you all are so good that we get right through them with the least amount of pain as possible. This year What can I say, this will be an interesting year. I know we will all get through it. Americans and I mean all of us both here in the states and my friends north of the border have a worldwide reputation of making it happen when we really need to and I believe we will do it again. That said do I expect this year to be a Bitch, YEAH! So a really good reason to come to my event It is a proven muscle and brain relaxer. Come out here and we do all of the thinking for you so all you need to do is drive. A year's worth of work and planning have gone into making this event go off with as few as hitches as humanly possible. We usually have 2 SCCA senior race stewards at the track, plus the rest of our corner workers, grid, safety, etc are all top regional SCCA people. For those who may not know it but that lady in pink in the grid was winning races on tracks when for many of us our race cars still had pedals! Working with the VRG is a treat. Everyone there is into racing and wants to make sure they have a good time which equates into you having a good time and since the only money we are interested in is what we can raise for our charities not a dime of your entry fee is wasted on anything (did I mention we are all volunteers) You get to race your heart out, we do the work and we both go home with a good feeling from having a great time with great friends and helping a group of people who really need our help and even more so in the tough times ahead. Another thing we seem to do better than anyone else is reach in help those who need it. As of right now you can go to www.cloverleaf-auto.com and click the vintage racing button, click the BeaveRun logo and go to 2009 you will find out all about the new groups this year and I think you are going to like them a lot, you can see where you would now be grouped if you had run last year, you can see the tentative schedule (and we try to stay with it) and you can download your entries and medical forms right now. Lock in a place, get your discount now. I know it is going to be a tough year and what we have done for you is actually lowered our early bird entry slightly from last year. You will also notice that the cutoff date for the early entry is EARLY. Our other member entry fees (VRG) are the same as last year. There is a slight increase in non-member entries and we had to raise the price of dinner by $2.00. We still plan on having our free driver and crew reception at the track on Friday. We are also working on extending the Kart racing throughout the weekend and as always Kris will fit just about anyone who wants to try Autocross into the weekend of Solo racing going on in conjunction with our vintage races Thanks Ralph Steinberg Director of Competition PVGPA BeaveRun