You wrote:
I'm speaking mostly from my experience in Northern California, where the
Northern California Sports Car Council (NCSCC, pronounced nicsic) maintained
the dominant autocross series. In those days each "sanctioned" NCSCC event was
put on and run, including manning all the work assignments, by
individual "sports car" clubs. In the SF bay area one of those clubs, belonging
to NCSCC and staging sanctioned events, was the SFR SCCA.
Nicely written, Don. I, too raced a Vair at those levels, a few years after
you. I remember when NCSCC restricted the tire/wheel options to "Stock wheel
width, any tire" or "1.5 inch wider than stock, Street tire" Everybody ran
stock wheels with Formula Ford front tires. In the three lap NCSCC format, they
would heat up fine on a 2600lb Corvair. If you got an immediate re-run, you
were screwed! Switching to the smaller early Corvair front bar on my 65 really
sprang the car "loose" for Autocross, but it was scary at highway speeds!- Seth
Emerson
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