Jim Blakewell's SCCA 914 racecar for sale Options

[stownsen914]

Ran across an ad on the Pelican forum for what appears to be Jim Blakewell's old SCCA GT2 914 racecar. For those who have been around for a while, you may remember that this car did well in SCCA back in the late 1990s or so. He placed at the Runoffs several times. Full tube frame car with a Hewland trans, 2.8L 911 motor per rules at the time, a pretty aggressive build and I think nicely done.

No affiliation, just sharing something that might be interesting to 914 aficionados here.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-car...e-race-car.html

[brant]

So I only have a limited experience also... I was involved with my vintage club when they negotiated and adopted IMSA rules...


what my club landed on: that the technology of cars changed so much between the 70's and today..... that in the 80's so many cars went to full tube frame silhouette type cars.... that my local vintage club wanted to remain vintage and didn't want those type of cars blowing away the existing vintage membership and driving off more members than it would attract

so the Colorado vintage club adopted 1976 imsa rules that specifically were before tube frame cars were allowed (intentionally did it this way)

I think a lot of other vintage clubs did the same
you would have to read the actual rules for the club you wanted to run in
some would, some wouldn't most likely allow this car.
but some (like Colorado and others.... I'm sure CVAR, etc) would never allow a tube frame car because they are trying to remain a vintage club with vintage technology.



What I had heard on the low screen windshields..
some allow
poc may not? (I know nothing of their rules)

I do know that I looked up SVRA years ago
they will allow the translucent (smoked) screen like the scca did
but they will not allow the solid fiberglass non translucent version of that screen

I had heard that when the scca went to the taller front cage
that they grand fathered in cars that already had cut front windshield with lower cages.... they just would not issue log books for new cars using that style.


the problem is that there are 99 vintage clubs out there with 99 different sets of rules
I have familiarity with maybe 10 clubs that are some of the biggest ones... but that certainly doesn't speak for the other 89 clubs out there.

hell.... CVAR doesn't even allow 1981 rules... so certainly there were no tube framed race cars racing under 1972 rules back in the day


brant