A crying shame...
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A crying shame...
I found this on another forum...its almost sickening to look at http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/663/sickening4hx.jpg this is from the Brian Redman Invitational at Road America this past week-end.
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Ow! Sickening is right.
Reminds me of a dustup I saw around 1989 at the Monterey Bay Historics at Laguna Seca. These "races" are really a gentlemans race, a fast parade...the rules state that great care should be taken to avoid crashes. If someone is on your tail, you wave them by.
My buddy has a 56 Corvette he enters each year. There are racing classes from the steam era through recent F1.
The mid-60's class, populated with classic Mustangs (Boss 302's, CA Specials, Fastbacks, etc) and Camaro's/Z28's got out of hand... those guys tend towards too much machismo...and about 9 or 10 cars wrecked. The whole place was as PO'd as they were saddened to see so many classics ruined.
Reminds me of a dustup I saw around 1989 at the Monterey Bay Historics at Laguna Seca. These "races" are really a gentlemans race, a fast parade...the rules state that great care should be taken to avoid crashes. If someone is on your tail, you wave them by.
My buddy has a 56 Corvette he enters each year. There are racing classes from the steam era through recent F1.
The mid-60's class, populated with classic Mustangs (Boss 302's, CA Specials, Fastbacks, etc) and Camaro's/Z28's got out of hand... those guys tend towards too much machismo...and about 9 or 10 cars wrecked. The whole place was as PO'd as they were saddened to see so many classics ruined.
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A buddy of mine went to Leguna Seca Raceway to watch the vintage car races and saw a GT40 lose it on the cork screw and get pretty damaged. 
Now that's pain. Ouch!
Now that's pain. Ouch!
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VikingBabe, I don't think anyone got hurt; except maybe his pocket book. 
On the other hand, if a person can afford to race his GT40, then he should be able to afford to fix it.
If not, then don't race it; well except maybe a sunday drive.....at 200 mph.
On the other hand, if a person can afford to race his GT40, then he should be able to afford to fix it.
If not, then don't race it; well except maybe a sunday drive.....at 200 mph.
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Major damage, but, I doubt any of the Corvettes are even closed to totaled. Takes a lot to bend those frames and parts are widely available. Looks like a 68-69 Camaro RS on the left? I bet that thing would be tough to fix$.
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