Roadrace cars... vintage, nostalgia, historic

Just wait until I dig out my box of road racing pics, we'll be here awhile!

Great thread!

 

Ok here's a few more from Classic Le Mans 08

Turbine car,......note the Mk1 Cortina rear lights !







Mustang chasing down a Mini Marcos (Arnage corner)

 

Metalshapes.....thanks for that.......saved me some hours searching.


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Am rereading Burt Levy's "The Last Open Road" and was reminded of this one:



1952 Cunningham C4RK - Chrysler Hemi powered. Probably the meanest looking/sounding racer I've ever seen.

 

Another mean SOB:


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You have to listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxwMiCwJOZw&NR=1

 

Since no one else did, I will, Gene Felton winning the IMSA race at Talledega. 97 mph for the 100 mile race on the 4 mile long combo super speedway and road course combo.



and at Laguna Seca



http://www.genefeltonrestorations.com/carsraced_60s70s.html

 

Indeed!

Is that Bridgehampton?

 

Speaking of Mini Marcos, a face, body, rear end only a mother could love.

 

Here's the "Gray Ghost" from the early TransAm wars.

 

When I saw that pic, I thought it was this car.
Right before the impact.





But it isn't...

 

I watched the Ghost at the 1971 Lime Rock Trans Am. Seeing that 64 Tempest do battle in the rain with cars seven years newer was magic.

 

And here I thought Gremlin bodies came out of the factory mounted on dirt modified chassis.

Cute little fellers, ain't they? (In a "Jesus! Is that a car!?!" kinda way. )

 

Oh man, that will NOT buff out! That hurts.

 

Some more photos I've taken over the years.


Devin SS


I like 917s!


Nissan GTP. Designed and built in El Segundo, Ca. You know you're getting old when the cars you watched racing back in the day are now called "vintage".


A Porsche hot rod, the 935.


Kurtis Buick


Morgan SLR, 1 of 3 built


Miller. Not a road racer but hey, it's a Miller!


Gilles Villeneuve, an artist with the Ferrari.


Jaguar V12 GTP


Ferrari 512 BB/LM. This car was run in local SCCA races for a couple of years.


Alfa 8C


MG N-Type


Auto Union D-Type

More later,
Kurt O.

 

Those 6 cylinder Gremlin cars made between 275/300 hp with a 500cfm 4bbl. Weighted 2800 lbs, ran BFG radials.

 

A lil' OT Ford I fool around with;

 

Jimmy B, I have never seen a yellow Bugatti everyone I have seen is Petty Blue for lack of a better description. I am in love the Type 35 is my all time favorite car. Last time I was in Indy I spent 20 min. just looking at the one on display. My dad (a hot rodder) and my brother (races drag bikes) thought there was something wrong with me lol.

 

He knew how to hang the tail out in his race cars...

 

That's French Racing Blue, though it can be anything from a pale sky blue to an electric mid-blue. Before it was all sponsorship, European racing cars were painted according to where they came from: Britain had a dark green, Italy red, Germany silver, Belgium yellow. Later a Scottish team claimed a dark blue-black for Scotland. When racing in Europe it was the convention for American cars to be painted white.

 

Lots of these were partial inspiration for the Legion Special...

 

Archie Fraser-Nash at the test hill Brooklands ......awsome picture


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some more from Classic Le Mans (08)
















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How could we forget the Doane Spencer Tiger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHE-EZSAkOM

 

Bridgehampton 1967 just entering turn 12 at the head of the main straight. That's the million dollar view of Peconic bay in the background.

Picturesque indeed.

 

Road race ??? Who were the first two Trans Am winners? And where?

 

under 2 liter or over? If you're gonna ask questions maybe give us ones that can be answered without asking more.

 

OK,,,,over 2 litre,,,xtra points if you can name the under winners also