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Re: Vintage Eligibility

To: derek.lola@sympatico.ca, S800Racer@aol.com
Subject: Re: Vintage Eligibility
From: "Roger Sieling" <sarl45@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:06:59 EDT
Derek,

How old do you think the "historic stock cars" are. I haven't seen a single 
one on the track that is more than 10 years old. That's vintage??? I would 
think the 333SPs could run in HSR's Thundersports, even today, but I guess 
they'd have to ask Joe.

Roger


>From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
>Reply-To: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
>To: S800Racer@aol.com
>CC: simon@mondes.com, vintage-race@autox.team.net, JWoesvra@aol.com,        
>David.Laver@msdw.com, lwdent@fwi.com
>Subject: Re: Vintage Eligibility
>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:10:51 -0400
>
>Another load of Common Sense - what is this list coming to?
>Thanks, Doug
>Another example of "progress" or of "passing years" - Ferrari 333SPs are
>occasionally turning up at vintage/historic - these were "state of the art" 
>less
>than a decade ago but are now outdated. No doubt some will say, 
>effectively,
>"store them for another decade or so while we decide if/when/where to 
>accept
>them" - I say - lets embrace them - they are "thoroughbreds" - just need to 
>find
>the appropriate venues/groups/classes. The more we encourage this sort of
>acceptance the more worthwhile race cars will continue to be available for 
>future
>generations.
>Derek
>
>S800Racer@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 8/7/00 4:54:30 PM, simon@mondes.com writes:
> >
> > <<Is this distinction because former SCCA Production cars are considered 
>evil
> > in some circles?>>
> >
> >     It's not that certain cars are "evil", it's really a matter of 
>recreating
> > certain periods in time.  Much of vintage racing is aimed at recreating
> > sports car racing during the 1950's and 1960's.  A period considered by 
>most
> > to be a "golden age" of sports car racing.  In the 1970's and 1980's
> > tube-framed and plastic bodied racers began to fill out the "production" 
>car
> > fields.  These cars were not made by sports car manufacturers but rather 
>by
> > race shops and home builders.  The '70's and '80's also brought slick 
>tires,
> > proliferation of sponsorship and other changes.  The cars from this 
>latter
> > period are not "evil" or any less a race car than the cars of the former
> > period.  They are different.  They are generally faster.  They are in 
>some
> > ways more replaceable in that a tube framed car can always be repaired 
>with
> > new tubes and some welding.
> >     Vintage racing was in it's infancy when the cars of the 1970's and 
>1980's
> > were being raced competitively and at the time no one worried about 
>whether
> > or how they would fit into vintage racing in 20 or 30 years.  In 1980 
>there
> > were few if any places to run a 1975 SCCA production racer as a vintage 
>car.
> > Now that such a car is 25 years old, it seems like there should be a 
>place
> > for it.  The prejudice that you sense comes from those who do not want 
>such a
> > car mixed in with cars representing a different age of sports car 
>racing.
> >
> >     Doug Meis
>

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