From les at classicdatsun.com Fri Jul 3 14:49:32 2009 From: les at classicdatsun.com (Les Cannaday) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Vintage-race] Anyone wanting a car moved from west coast to east Message-ID: <896314.6885.qm@web81306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Anyone needing a car moved from west coast San Diego to anywhere east up to Hew Hampshire please contact me as we have an empty trailer suddenly going east to pick a new E bay purchase. He wants to leave tue or wed next week and has a 24 foot enclosed trailer and for less than half the cost of shipping coast to coast you could get reliable transport of a car. If anyone needs this service call me and I can hook you up. Les 760-940-6365 Les Cannaday Classic Datsun Motorsports 345 Olive Ave Vista, CA 92083 (760)940-6365 (866)288-8340 fax From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sat Jul 4 07:17:33 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:17:33 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] PVGPA Historic Races @ BeaveRun Message-ID: <004a01c9fca9$caa47d60$5fed7820$@com> To all: Latest groups and schedule have been posted along with late breaking news about a silent auction and some raffles. There is also important information that those of you who have been to a PVGPA Beaver event before need to find out about. Please contact Klawrence at edmc.edu. For those already signed up, thanks and will see you there. For those who have not, come on out you are missing the best kept racing secret in the East! new info at www.cloverleaf-auto.com click the vintage race link and then the BeaveRun picture Thanks Ralph Steinberg PVGPA Director of Competition BeaveRun From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sat Jul 4 15:44:36 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:44:36 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] The real reason we do PVGPA Message-ID: <000001c9fcf0$a0df0210$e29d0630$@com> I know everyone comes out to BeaveRun or Schenley Park for a good time and great racing & friends. And I know that back somewhere in our heads we know we are doing this for some charities and all. I have had this tape for awhile and have been meaning to do something with it too. Then it got put aside and I refound it today. I have posted this at www.cloverleaf-auto.com - click the vintage race button and then the Beaver picture click the "why do we do this" and download the video. NOW YOU CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!! Thanks Ralph Steinberg From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sat Jul 4 16:53:08 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:53:08 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] The real reason we do PVGPA Message-ID: <001301c9fcfa$33ae6320$9b0b2960$@com> I know everyone comes out to BeaveRun or Schenley Park for a good time and great racing & friends. And I know that back somewhere in our heads we know we are doing this for some charities and all. I have had this tape for awhile and have been meaning to do something with it too. Then it got put aside and I refound it today. I have posted this at www.cloverleaf-auto.com - click the vintage race button and then the Beaver picture click the "why do we do this" and download the video. NOW YOU CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!! I Know you just got this but my wife looked at it and said "that is not the video clip I remember" so I went looking some more and surprise, surprise, she is correct. I found the other and have loaded it. If you have already gone to see it, go back and watch this one. If not do so now. It's a big download but worth it! If you have ever been to any PVGPA event thank you and if not why not and come to one! Thanks Ralph Steinberg From sevenamerica at yahoo.com Wed Jul 15 19:43:17 2009 From: sevenamerica at yahoo.com (John Donohoe) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable distributor? Message-ID: <151377.57970.qm@web110705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Okay, I think I need to spring for a new distributor in my road-going Lotus Seven, 948 Sprite powered. What kind of distributors are you guys using that's dependable on the track for vintage racing 948 powered Sevens? If you run a Seven you know the space limitations I'm dealing with... Thanks! John Donohoe 1961 Seven America 7/B1135 www.SimpleSevens.org Original Lotus Seven detail photos here: http://www.simplesevens.org/details . . . From 56887 at msn.com Thu Jul 16 08:44:25 2009 From: 56887 at msn.com (Stewart Smith) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:44:25 -0700 Subject: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable distributor? In-Reply-To: <151377.57970.qm@web110705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <151377.57970.qm@web110705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: John, Use the Moss Motors competition distributor and then take it to someone that has a distributor machine and set the total advance. They come anywhere from 10 degrees to 30 degrees without any notice of what it should be. It isn't hard to change springs and weights. They are not set up. Stewart -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Donohoe" Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:43 PM To: Subject: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable distributor? > Okay, I think I need to spring for a new distributor in my road-going > Lotus > Seven, 948 Sprite powered. What kind of distributors are you guys using > that's > dependable on the track for vintage racing 948 powered Sevens? If you run > a > Seven you know the space limitations I'm dealing with... > > Thanks! > > John Donohoe > > 1961 Seven America 7/B1135 > > www.SimpleSevens.org > > Original Lotus Seven detail photos here: > > http://www.simplesevens.org/details > > . > > . > > . > _______________________________________________ > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > You are subscribed as 56887 at msn.com > > Vintage-race at autox.team.net > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/vintage-race From schaiken at comcast.net Thu Jul 16 14:45:43 2009 From: schaiken at comcast.net (Scott Chaiken) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:43 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] Vintage-race Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3 References: Message-ID: <73DB1280A6E24BF7AAD3B41FE3AF80CB@ESD.ALTARUM> I substituted an optical switch instead of points with standard BMC Spridget distributor; This is in my VSCCA Series 1 BMC 948 (~1027cc). I would try this before fooling with a 'new' distributor. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:00 PM Subject: Vintage-race Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3 > Send Vintage-race mailing list submissions to > vintage-race at autox.team.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/vintage-race > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > vintage-race-request at autox.team.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > vintage-race-owner at autox.team.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Vintage-race digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable distributor? (John Donohoe) > 2. Re: BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable distributor? > (Stewart Smith) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Donohoe > Subject: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable > distributor? > To: vintage-race at autox.team.net > Message-ID: <151377.57970.qm at web110705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Okay, I think I need to spring for a new distributor in my road-going > Lotus > Seven, 948 Sprite powered. What kind of distributors are you guys using > that's > dependable on the track for vintage racing 948 powered Sevens? If you run > a > Seven you know the space limitations I'm dealing with... > > Thanks! > > John Donohoe > > 1961 Seven America 7/B1135 > > www.SimpleSevens.org > > Original Lotus Seven detail photos here: > > http://www.simplesevens.org/details > > . > > . > > . > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:44:25 -0700 > From: "Stewart Smith" <56887 at msn.com> > Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable > distributor? > To: "John Donohoe" , > > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > John, > > Use the Moss Motors competition distributor and then take it to someone > that > has a distributor machine and set the total advance. They come anywhere > from > 10 degrees to 30 degrees without any notice of what it should be. It isn't > hard to change springs and weights. They are not set up. > Stewart > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "John Donohoe" > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:43 PM > To: > Subject: [Vintage-race] BMC 948 In a Lotus Seven -- dependable > distributor? > >> Okay, I think I need to spring for a new distributor in my road-going >> Lotus >> Seven, 948 Sprite powered. What kind of distributors are you guys using >> that's >> dependable on the track for vintage racing 948 powered Sevens? If you run >> a >> Seven you know the space limitations I'm dealing with... >> >> Thanks! >> >> John Donohoe >> >> 1961 Seven America 7/B1135 >> >> www.SimpleSevens.org >> >> Original Lotus Seven detail photos here: >> >> http://www.simplesevens.org/details >> >> . >> >> . >> >> . >> _______________________________________________ >> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html >> >> You are subscribed as 56887 at msn.com >> >> Vintage-race at autox.team.net >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/vintage-race > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Vintage-race mailing list > Vintage-race at autox.team.net > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/vintage-race > > > End of Vintage-race Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3 > ******************************************* From twobees at sprynet.com Fri Jul 17 14:09:32 2009 From: twobees at sprynet.com (Norm 2Bs) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:32 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] ALMS Qualifying at LRP on Speed TV Streaming Message-ID: <007601ca071a$804d1580$6401a8c0@normoffice> I'm watching the qualifying from Lime Rock. Great racing. BUT...who is that screaming jerk they have announcing??? He's so bad it sounds like the 7 PM TV shows that scream the nonsense Hollywood news. Norm Sippel '59 Turner '60 Alfa From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sat Jul 18 09:05:37 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:05:37 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] (no subject) Message-ID: <000b01ca07b9$3554bb10$9ffe3130$@com> I want to thank everyone who came out to this year's PVGP/VRG Historic Races at BeaveRun. And I really want to thank Mike & Nial for some nifty footage. I would like everyone to view this tape of Mike in the Charity rides #6-IN-CAR VIDEO-Michael Oritt-Elva-During Charity Rides Let me fill you in a bit - This is why we do this! The boy in the car is 14 years old and a non-verbal autistic child. His father told me he loves speed and when he is happy he starts to rock. The happier he is the more he rocks! He was recalling rock and rolling here!! Michael, thank you so much! We also got this same boy into a safety car for the start of one of our races - he loved it! Thanks to all of you for helping us bring some joy into this families life and to further our charities which directly help people like this. Thanks again and I hope to see everyone back next year and bring a friend! Ralph Steinberg PVGPA Director of Competition BeaveRun From twobees at sprynet.com Fri Jul 31 11:54:37 2009 From: twobees at sprynet.com (Norm 2Bs) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:37 -0400 Subject: [Vintage-race] Tappet Dimensions? Message-ID: <006401ca1207$f8f53150$6401a8c0@normoffice> Anyone out there know the diameter & length of tappets for a 948? Thanks in advance. Norm Sippel '59 Turner w/948