In a message dated 8/22/00 5:57:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, peb3@cornell.edu
writes:
<< spent the weekend in Reading, PA working a corner at the Duryea
hillclimb. Being a rally guy, I have always held most other forms of racing
in disdain. My mind has been changed. A hillclimb is nothing more than a
special stage in a rally. Not a lot of racing or seat time, but some fun
just the same.
>>
Three of us traveled to Reading from Pittsburgh in 1963 to run a hillclimb.
At that time, I was driving the same 1959 TR-3 on the highway. Upon
arriving, we learned that the hillclimb was canceled. Some clown was
practicing after hours and smashed his Corvette into a police car.
I am not sure if it is the same track, but it looked wild. All the
hillclimbs we had run were up steep hills with a few curves. This one had a
some level straight aways! I figured that the next stage would be to add a
few downhills.
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