So dad decided to get his vintage wheel to wheel liscense. He holds a PCA club racing liscense, but wants to play with the vintage club too.

The school was friday, saturday, and sunday.
He passed with flying colors.
He is not officially liscensed until he completes all of the events this season in good standing and gets signed off in october.... but at least he got the first 3 days under his belt.

I'll have to post more pictures tomorrow but here is a sample of some of the other students:

Teeners gallore...
I think there were 6 teeners present this weekend.
This car has participated multiple years past. Its owned by Greg Johnson, proprietor of one of the local shops. However he had a shoulder surgery and is going to be sitting out most of the season due to surgery. Rather than let a good car sit dormant, he is letting two of the nice guys at his shop use it:

more:

Marcia's porsche had clutch trouble.

picture for ferg:

other side:

more

ground pounder:

both of these silver cars are owned by allen benjamin.
and they are both prepped by 3R racing (of speedvision fame)

cars:

There is a story about this car. It was the last vehicle raced by one of the local celebs that passed last year. His name was Danny Collins, and he was a fairly famous driver back into the fifties. He knew and was connected with very famous people and used to race agains some of the iconic names in america and europe. He used to run ferrarri's and such back then, and proceeded to go in and out of many cars over the last 20 years. He even was the designer of the colorado track we just lost (2nd creek)

He passed last year and this was the car he had.
His widow sold it.

He was in the middle of a freshening and the motor was apparently in pieces when he passed. The number I heard this weekend was AMAZING.... $3750 for the everything unassembled:

Don't you wish you had been in the right place at the right time for this one?
I know I do:

more ground pounders:

interior:

cars:

This one is cool:

Gotta love the flare ontop of the flare:
(plus nice tire size!)

and a fun exhaust pipe too:

last one for now:

I like the Volvo, I always wanted to put a V8 in one and make a sleeper. I wonder if that Jag is fast enough to be worth all that ugly mods?

what's the story with those two silver cars? and are they coming back in may?

2 brother-in-laws...
one was a student, the other with lots of experience.
both running D-jet 1.7's (all 4 cylinders have to be 1.7's due to the 1972-earlier rule)

Wait until you see more pictures tomorrow.
some neat little ideas on those cars.

I invited them to the lajunta DE but they will likely run in pueblo at the nostalgia wheel to wheel event that same weekend.

brant

So it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks. Congratulations.

Which vintage group? VARA? HSR?

Sweet Pics Brant!

Was my Falcon there?

Ferg

The colorado group is Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing

They are a member of the larger VMC and will allow visitors as well as allow locals to run in as visitors in the other clubs. But RMVR has their own sets of rules and are a little more strict than many. For example Actual 2.0L motors in the 914's, and only 1.7's in the 914-4's, another is no fiberglass parts (the jag was an scca car allowed for the school)

brant

Ok..
got enough time to add some more pics.

Ferg, nope... falcon didn't show.
but HE will be at the Trans Am event in a month..
wanna drive up to pueblo for the day and oogle?

here is a mustang.. for the mustang man:

neat car:

Nice car!

another:

and the exhaust:

hmmm.....

and the tow rig that Greg makes fun of:

another car that has a few issues... but was able to finish out the weekend:

It's lavender, how is that not funny?

Who's big dog is that?

another student:

ain't she pretty!
thats ginger.
we had a little ginger episode at the track I'm sorry to say.
she broke a rope and attacked another dog.
wife got yelled at by a passerby.
wasn't fun at all.....

speaking of big dogs...
an exhibition car that was allowed to visit.
owner is awesome.. a great driver and a nice guy in general.
set the fastest lap of the weekend:

He started last every session and would lap the field while finishing first:

Its an AJRS creation originally..
it has a good record and even cleaned up in a cali POC event in the past.
was recently significantly detuned but still not slow:

Owner is part of a father son team.
they have another -6 race car also that was present:

In action:

Frontal:

More action:

another:

proof that teeners have been here:

nice dash:

Tall driver accomodations...
very nicely done:

An accumulator fuel system with D-jet:

This should raise some eyebrows:

and the linkage:

Nice trailers everywhere....

(hey greg.. can we paint the side of your camper?)