In a message dated 6/11/2007 11:22:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
pennell@cox.net writes:
Does anyone know what a B-18 Austin Healey Is? He just blew off a
> Tipo 61 Maserati at VIR.
> The 3rd spot went to a 100M.
The 3000 is a FACTORY Sebring car. The prints for the carburetor setup were
found in the Healey Museum files, and shared with Bill and his mechanics. The
car is setup with Webers, light panels etc.
There were over 20 Healeys racing at the VIR Gold Cup races. AND, they were
class winners!!!
42 1 1 C2 Bob Toler 1961 Austin Healey Sprite 948cc 48 2 130
C2 Bo Lemmon 59 A-H Bugeye Sprite 959cc 51 3 409 C2 Dan Leonard 1959 Speedwell
GT 998cc 6 1 19 C3 Chris Gross 1960 A-H Bugeye Sprite 948cc 7 2
94 C3 Brian MacEachern 1959 Austin Healey Sprite 968cc 12 3 86 C3 Mark Gobble
1962 Austin Healey Sprite 967cc 14 4 17 C3 Tim Slater 1965 Triumph Spitfire
1147cc 16 5 444 C3 Andrew Petch 1964 Lotus Seven 1600cc 22 6 2 C3 David
Mumford 1960 Austin Healey Sprite 968cc 31 7 241 C3 Kneher Ken 1954 Swallow
Doretti 1991cc 33 8 1 C3 Bob Toler 1960 A-H Bugeye Sprite 948cc 40 9 83 C3
Parker
Burke 1960 Turner MkI 1098cc 43 10 76 C3 Bob Schoeplein 1961 MGA 1622cc 49
11 57 C3 Gary Barnhart 1960 Austin Healey Sprite 948cc 52 12 253 C3 Richard
Brown 60 Austin Healey Sprite 970cc 53 13 87 C3 Jack Coulter 59 A-H Bugeye
Sprite 997cc 18 1 319 C4 Sam Blanton 1967 Morris Minor 1275cc 47 2
73
C4 R. M. Bowers 1957 Devin Ermini 1297cc 60 3 41 C4 Nick Chamberlin 1965
Austin Healey Sprite 1275cc 1 1 45 C5 Bill Thumel 1964 Austin Healey
3000 2990cc 2 2 11 C5 Thomas Mittler 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 2.9L 3 3 830 C5
Tim
Earle 1956 Austin Healey 100M 2660cc 4 4 348 C5 Bill Bartlett 1959 MGA
1622cc 5 5 810 C5 Fred Fischer 1955 Austin Healey 100S 2660cc 8 6 7 C5 Mike
Fisher 1960 Austin Healey 3000 MK I 2965cc 9 7 82 C5 Michael Oritt 1958 Elva
Courier 1500cc 13 8 820 C5 Bruce Earle 1954 Austin Healey 100M 2660cc 19 9
323 C5
Mike Bradford 1959 Elva Courier 1800cc 20 10 64 C5 Ben Prewitt 1964 Austin
Healey 3000 2992cc 21 11 98 C5 Robert Lasater 1970 MGB-GT 1800cc 24 12 444 C5
Gene McOmber 1962 Morgan 4/4 1296cc 27 13 404 C5 W. Kevin Fitzgerald 1956
Arnolt Bristol Bolide 1921cc 35 14 74 C5 Torsten Kunze 1974 MGB GT 1800cc 36
15 93 C5 C. B. Silvestri 1972 Alfa Romeo GTV 1975cc 37 16 25 C5 Al Taylor 1967
BMW 2000 2000cc 44 17 464 C5 Chuck Woodworth 1959 Alfa Giulietta 1290cc 45
18 790 C5 Bob Kullas 1957 Alfa Giulietta 1290cc 55 19 30 C5 Anthony Wang 63
Ferrari 250 GTO 4.0L 56 20 53 C5 Stan/Stirling Heath 59 MG-MGA 1622cc 57 21
73 C5 Robert Bowers 73 Giulietta 357 58 22 122 C5 Robert Bodin 60 Ryan SP
3.0L 59 23 581 C5 Kurt Bissell 1959 Alfa Giuletta Spyder 1600cc
Ron Fitch and I, from the Tampa Bay Austin-Healey Club, went up as
spectators. Between us we shot over 1,000 photos of Healeys racing. These
have been
cataloged by car number and are being sent out to each of the racers on a
DVD, (as it would take 5 CD to hold all the photos).
We should all enjoy knowing that our Austin-Healeys still "Go FAST "cars.
Bill Emerson
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