Showing posts with label Camaro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camaro. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The 1968 SCCA race at Bryar (Loudon New Hampshire) photos have made it onto the internet, if you have photos of vintage racing (SCCA or NHRA) get them scanned and uploaded, share them!




The guys in the Boss Mustangs forum were cool and pointed out the cars above the track curve in the above photo... gt500 Shelby Stang, Porsche, Olds, Falcon, mini, Delivery Van, Plymouth full size, Corvette, 55 Chev, real AC Cobra (no copies back then!) and a Cortina I think... but go down a couple photos and look in the upper right hand corner to see what wasn't captured in the view of the above image... a real GT 40







These Cougars are both owned by Peter Revson, and in 1966 he was racing a GT40 for Essex Wire Co's team with Skip Scott where he helped win the world title for GTcars. Consecutively with the Cougars he was driving a Lola for Dana in Can Am, and a McLaren in USRRC




How about that GT40? Effin cool that someone drove that to watch the races. Serious cool sports cars on the other side of that fence, no one drives cars that cool to watch races anymore. Who can afford the insurance? A Gt500 Shelby Stang, 911 I think, possibly a 427 65 Vette, Shelby 289 Cobra I bet, and a GT40... wow.






above GT500KR









Very interesting that I've never seen the inside of one of these cars when it was racing in the 60's



found on http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=k0rdem8317u8nl330ji7usq3a7&topic=8309.15 and Ron Lathrop, and http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=14660.75

I learned about this from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/03/09/four-links-counter-continentals-beverly-hills-kenworth-mckinley-thompson-toyota-timeline/ Dan's Saturday 4 links. Hemmings is lucky to have Dan keeping on top of so many cool things on the web

How to cram more gas into a race car... step one, innovation. Step two, dry ice 21 gallons of gas. Step 3, bring to the race track and cram into the Penske Camaro


that is a lot of frozen condensation on that drum



in the above you can see the can in the can, and below the drawing was found that gave dimensions


the above image image shows the car at the most recent Pebble Beach event, recreating the glory days of 1967 and the famous frozen gas trick

photos from http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=k0rdem8317u8nl330ji7usq3a7&topic=8309.15 and http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=14660.75

Sunday, February 24, 2013

New Camaro door dinged twice by passenger. I saw it happen, and snapped this with the camera phone

Yeah, the passenger bumper the fire hydrant when getting out, looked at the door closely, and just went off with the driver to get a burrito. Bumped it when getting back in.

Of course, the driver parked it illegally in front of the hydrant. So, instant kharma?

Saturday, February 23, 2013

the variety of cars at the 2013 Run to the Coast, American Street Car challenge, part of the Optima Street Car Challenge, and it's in Irvine, on the old El Toro MCAS all weekend, drop by to see muscle cars, sports cars, and lots of 1955-1975 cars get handled they way you'd like to treat them!


at the 215 and Interstate 5 split in Irvine, get off the 5 at Sand Canyon Ave then immediately take Marine Way south, into the old Marine Corps base, follow the white cones, and you'll get there. It's basically under the big orange balloon















































































the bumpers have been ground down, sectioned, bolts welded on the inside, and they they were tucked into the body