Ron says I post too many pictures so I guess I have a rep now.....

Anyways... last weekend was another vintage race.
most of the same old cars, but it was a grand time anyways.

I feel pretty good about it.
my lap times aren't as good as I'd hoped, but I'm doing better in traffic and really had a good weekend from that perspective. (lots of successful passes without giving up much)

In the first sunday race, I had qualified way back in 15th and managed to move up to 7th...

Here are pics of bunches of cars that were not in run class... but were still fun:

Here was a fun car.
it had a 2liter in it, but not a type IV:

Nice towing set ups.... not to mention rides to and from the hotel:

i think i saw that car for sale recently

This car was probably my favorite:

It's and old F2 car......


and was raced by:

another nice car:

ah yes.... another mclaren.
and one of the few that aren't actually already in the possession of Harry Mathews.. lol:

If you race an old corvette then this is a good way to get to the track:

which one?

The old russian bi-plane was doing fly overs:

Some of my competition in my run class:

There were 5 1967S cars there...

some with stock S motors and some with much more:

This car was surprisingly fast....
its only a 1.8, but we were dead even on the straight and even with my new gearing I couldn't pull him even an inch down the straight:

This car was kinda my goal for the weekend.
I've beat him in lap time before, but I've never beat him in finishing position until now.....

In the final and feature race... Here are the only cars that I didn't pass:
(there was another sports racer that I can't find the picture of)

the 4 sports racers were put into my race...

and here are the production based cars that I couldn't catch:

and the 8th place car I didn't catch was the red bimmer.....

Over all I felt pretty good about the weekend.

we went into it unsure If my motor was going to last.

we had basically no problems and a heck of a lot of fun:

an unforseen family items has come up and I will now be missing the enduro..

but I think we will do an oil change and hit the highway for oklahoma:

Nice pics!!!!

love that blue 911 ( wonder why )

I love the early TVRs...saw one just like that this weekend with a 289 in it. Thing must fly...

Brant,
Very cool pics. The Mclaren and the associated red transport rig ect, is from the shop I frequent here in boulder. That's the Mclaren I called you about 6 months ago or so, when they had the open house.

here's the pic I took of it then...

i thought it was the ghia, but i was wrong

http://www.carquip.com/sale/ghia/index.asp

wow, that ghia spyder is pretty..

Ferg,
I knew it was your guy.
he has some dang nice cars!

Tim, your gt5 is looking so good...
congrats on its mobility!

brant

Great Pictures!

How did that Elan do? They are typically pretty fast right out of the box and with a good driver watch out.

So many beautiful cars. What a weekend.

The elan was about 1.5 seconds a lap faster than me.
I believe that car is actually a 26R, one of the factory racecar elans.
its an amazing car. The doors are pinned from the outside, as you would normally see hoods done, because they are literally just a shell.

but he started having problems on sunday and was running about 3 seconds a lap off of his saturday times.
So I actually beat him in the first sunday race and I think he dropped out in the feature.

amazing car though!

brant

Some friends invited me to a car show and I turned it down. This reminds me why. You go to any race track and you see these amazing cars that are never gonna be at a car show.

I would much rather look at this stuff all day.

If you have time to take all of those pictures, you car's not breaking enough!
LOL.
Looks like you had a great weekend.

ha....
I've only had 2 break downs in 2 years so far. Knock on wood!
an we fixed both of those 2 at the track and continued.
its probably because of the hours and hours of prep dad puts in between each race.

but yep... no break downs this weekend.
I did have a stumble during qualifying.
I drove in because I knew something was wrong.
dad checked the fuel right away and found it empty
(we had gone out on 3 gallons)

that was the closest I came to a problem, and it was easily solved by pouring another jug in.

brant