A friend just sent me this photo. His friend John is driving and get this - he's 70+ years old! finished 5th out of over 20 cars in his race!
I will make it to his event one year. I don't care how fufu the atmosphere is. Maybe I can make a pilgramage west and hit Bonneville, Monterey and then hang out in SoCal until the Hot Rod Reunion.
great shot!! fufu or not its worth the time...i used to help out the SCRAMP officials years ago...working the gas pumps for half a day and got to see a whole weekend of racing and i got meal comps and paddock parking to boot!!
Cool..........do you have any more shots from the event? I would really like to go out west for the Monterey Historic races, but Bonneville is around the same time. That car sorta' reminds me of the Kiwi's car from this past week. Chris Nelson Kansas
He is a HAMB'er. his name is " Old Dawg" and he posts on the banger threads all the time. here is one of his posts: Mine's a Ford Model B, with and OHV Miller Hi-Speed Head. 12 to 1 Compression ratio. Stromberg 97 carburetors. Full pressure oil. with separate filter and oil pump. Counterbalanced five main crank. The photo was taken seven years ago at Monterey. Since then, I've added a 32-35 Ford front axle; and 17 inch Dayton knockoff wheels. Plenty of photos elsewhere on this site.
The Historics in Monterey are not about fufu. Pebble Beach (the same weekend) kind of has that flavor, but they have some of the BEST cars on the planet, the Historics is ALL about race cars, all kinds of old race cars... Last weekend was the Historics, this week a bunch of Goodguys shop tours, this weekend a big Goodguys show...'ya could make a vacation outa that I betcha...
O.K.! Confession time! I'll be seventy in February. But, when it comes to cars, I'm still a teenager ('cause that's when I started this madness). Thanks for the exposure. There are some photos of the cars engine on another thread of Monterey. I qualified eighth, on th fourth row. My girlfriend, Dian, clocked my best lap at 1 min. 56 sec. (that turned out to be about the average for the winner, Peter Giddings). But, of course, that was in traffic; and I was light on fuel in qualification. At the start, I jumped out ahead of several cars; but, before the third turn, two of them had repassed me. A Londoner in a 1928 Frazier-Nash, tucked in behind me; and stuck to me like glue. I figured that canny Brit was "going to school" on me. He was so close, I couldn't see him in either of my side mirrors. On about the third lap, as I thought my brakes were starting to fade (actually it was a left rear brake adjuster that had come adrift). He dove inside me, entering Turn 10, a downhill, fairly fast right-hander. I gave him racing room, thinking I could out accelerate him into the next turn. Couldn't quite do it, with my brakes going. I followed him around to the finish. The reason I finished fifth was, two cars dropped out; and one car spun, loseing 15 places. My friend, Peter Giddings (the winner in a beautiful 1930 Alfa Romeo P-3) told me later that two of the fastest, an ERA and a Maserati, "over cooked it" into the "Corkscrew" and spun. The Maserati rejoined, losing a bunch of places. The guy in the ERA, packed it in and went to the pits. Phil Reilly, driving the immaculate (and very fast) Kurtis-Epperly Indy Roadster retired to the pits. It's a real fun week; but, it's getting kinda tedious. It's not the Public (the folks are friendly and courtious). The organizers are getting to be real pains. A lot of us were talking about going somewhere else, unless guys running General Racing Ltd. get their act together. Coming up, I'm going to try to run with the Vintage Auto Racing Association at Buttonwillow, Sep 13th and 14th; and at the Coronado Festival of Speed, at the Naval Air Station in San Diego Sep 25th, 26th and 27th.
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