The prewar exhibition laps throughout the weekend gave the crowd a wonderful show.



Photo: Bill Nesius (Vintage Motorsport)

 

Paddock veteran Chris MacAllister always brings lovely machines to the track and this 1971 McLaren M8F is no exception. His son, Alex MacAllister definitely showed what he and the car can do.



Photo: Bill Nesius (Vintage Motorsport)

In a brief moment of solace, Turner Woodard’s 1975 Chevron B31 sits in front of the garages on pit lane.



Photo: Bill Nesius (Vintage Motorsport)

Walter Vollrath was looking to get the most out of his 1972 Lola T-290.



Photo: Bill Nesius (Vintage Motorsport)

 

ying some racing history together
See last post in thread:
See it before it goes away.



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Inside the NASCAR Hall of Fame*********************

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NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum Tour... Charlotte, NC



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Abandoned tracks in Florida area and other places (updated)
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-fl-area.html

Bonneville History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...e-history.html

Daytona History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...a-history.html

Drag Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...ml#post9366328

This link has some historic drag racing pics.

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...pics-ever.html


Local historic drag racing track Twin City Oldsmar

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...florida-4.html


Indianapolis History

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9373490

24 Hours of Lemans history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-history.html


Lime Rock Park history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/au...rock-park.html


Pikes Peak racing history
Is Pikes Peak a road Race?


https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362624


History of Race Cars

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9370578

Road Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...g-history.html

Sebring history

The way to part 2 "A brief History of Sebring Raceway" is here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...-40-posts.html
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This was the original brief history of Sebring part 1
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/general-car-chat/816701-sebring-raceway-brief-history-part-1-has-now-exceeded-40-posts-115-posts.html
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A bit of stock car racing history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362625


Tying some Tampa Racing history together with links: Tampa International Raceway (Fair Grounds)

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...l-raceway.html

 

1970's Sports Car Racing

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13.9K subscribersThe 1970ʼs were a classic era in sports car racing. Porsche and Renault were just two of the famous names that competed for glory during this time. License your content worldwide with Janson Media http://www.janson.com The Porsche short-tail 917 was one of the newer lightweight vehicles introduced during the early 70ʼs.

The main opposition to the Gulf-Porsche team was Ferrari with their 512 model. Pedro Rodriguez set a new lap record of 3mins, 16.5 seconds, which was nine seconds faster than the current F1 lap record. With an astonishing speed of 257 kms an hour, these were the worldʼs fastest racing cars.

 

That docu I said I'd upload, but can't name.

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Tony King
It's called 'Circuit,' and as somebody says below, the tagline is "Life Begins at 180mph." I got my hands on a decent VHS copy a couple of years ago and digitized it. Very, very good action footage of actual races from the '81 season, mixed in with a goofy fictional plot line about a woman journalist following Danny Sullivan around (The roar of the engines! The surge of the hormones!).

Footage from the Laguna Seca and Riverside races is particularly good. I fast-forward past the romance and watch the cars, who are better actors than the drivers. I knew a local guy who got a drive in the VDS car at the tail end of the Can-Am series around 3-4 years after this vid. Like you say, most of the cars are Formula 5000s. Particularly popular were Lola T300-series that were retrofitted with extra bodywork and ground effects, and sold to customers by Brad Frisselle's team, who called them "Frissbees." Lots of folks bought Frissbee GR2s and GR3s;

I knew another local guy who had a Frissbee and campaigned it in the final couple of seasons of the series. I always thought they were hot looking cars, and impressively fast. Both Paul Tracy and Al Unser, Jr. had a lot of good things to say about the Frissbees they drove early in their careers

(Tracy won his very first Can-Am attempt in a Frissbee in '86). Paul Newman's team (Fabi driving) in this vid is fielding a March 817, I think it was nicknamed the "pontoon car" by some folks at the time. I thought I had read back in the 80's that the car was based on the 81C Indycar chassis, but I

may be mistaken. Some Can-Am purists from the first series ('65-'74) look down their noses at this generation of second series ('77-'87) cars, but I've always been fond of them, probably because I was around them during my involvement with the SCCA back then.

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2.67K subscribersF5000 with fenders. Al Holbert, Danny Sullivan, Geoff Brabham, Teo Fabi.

 

McLaren at Road Atlanta 1970 in "The Heavies"

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4.58K subscribersSVRA.com Bob and Oscar Koveleski produced a great video named Can Am McLarens 1969-1971.

 

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1973 SCCA Can Am racing Mark Donohue Part 1/2

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748 subscribers1973 Anatomy of Racing Penske Porsche Sunoco promo film featuring Porsche 917/30K
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Search - The Anatomy of Auto Racing (1973)

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2.1K subscribersFrom the SpeedVision vault, host Dave Despain takes a look at the 1973 film "Search - The Anatomy of Auto Racing". Compiled of footage from the early 1970's, the film examines the team aspect of auto racing by looking at opposite extremes.

One end being Penske Racing operating on a multi-million dollar platform across several series (Indy car, Can-AM, NASCAR & F-5000) and Jon Farbman''s effort to field an SCCA (H production class) Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite.

 

Lot 38
1956 Austin-Healey 100M BN2 Le Mans Specification
Sold for US$ 52,640 inc. premium
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1956 Austin-Healey 100M BN2 Le Mans Specification
Chassis no. BN2-L/230571
Engine no. 1B/230571/M
2,660cc OHV Inline 4-Cylinder Engine
2 SU Carburetors
110bhp at 4,500rpm
4-Speed Manual Transmission w/ Overdrive
Independent Front Suspension - Live Rear Axle
4-Wheel Drum Brakes

*Rare Export 100M delivered new to Morocco
*Numbers matching and documented by its British Motoring Industry Heritage Trust Certificate
*Recently repainted
*Fitted with Le Mans Modification Kit

Previewing in Bedford Hills, New York by appointment. Please contact motors.us@bonhams.com?subject=Sched...torcar Auctionfor scheduling.


THE AUSTIN-HEALEY 100M LE MANS

Following the Austin-Healey 100's sensational debut at the 1952 Motor Show, the works had entered two mildly modified cars in the 1953 Le Mans 24-Hour Race. They finished in 12th and 14th places, a highly praiseworthy achievement for what were recognizably production sports cars. Accordingly, the name "Le Mans" was chosen for a bolt-on tuning kit offered through Austin-Healey dealers, by means of which private owners could bring their cars up to a specification approaching that of the works' entries. The kit included a pair of 1¾" SU HD6 carburetors, plus special inlet manifold and cold air box, high-lift camshaft, stronger valve springs, and a distributor with alternative ignition advance curve. With the kit installed, power increased from the standard 90 to 100bhp.

From October of 1955, the conversion was available, factory-fitted on the successor BN2 model in the form of the 100M. In addition to the Le Mans kit, the latter boasted high-compression pistons, a stiffer front anti-roll bar, special Armstrong front dampers, and a louvered bonnet. Power increased to 110bhp and top speed, with the windscreen folded flat, was within a whisker of 120mph. The number of BN1s converted by their owners is unknown, but 1,159 cars—mostly BN2s—were built or subsequently modified to 100M specification between 1955 and 1956. Of these, approximately 640 were completed at the factory, some 544 of which were exported to the USA.

THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

Offered here is an extraordinary example of the increasingly popular Austin-Healey 100 BN2 which is eligible for some of the most prominent motoring events around the globe. According to its British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Certificate, this fine Austin-Healey was completed at the Longbridge Austin-Healey works on January 27, 1956 in Reno Red over Red leather and a black top. A left-hand drive BN2 model, this example was destined to Gilta Rabat S.A. in Morocco. The new Healey featured the four-speed overdrive transmission and the numerous smaller improvements implemented during the course of production since the introduction of the BN1 in 1953. The left-hand-drive Austin-Healey was equipped with a heater, miles per hour speedometer, Duplo double vertical dip headlamps, and a laminated windscreen. Under the Le Mans-style louvred and leather strapped hood are a familiar polished aluminum engine head cover, big twin SU carburetor, and further upgrades that are denoted by the plaque declaring this example to be upgraded to 100M Le Mans spec. Installation of the Le Mans Modification Kit is understood to have been carried out by the original dealer.

Entering the collection of the previous, Long Island, New York owner in 2013, the current owner acquired the car December 2018. In the ensuing years the Healey has been restored and most recently in September 2019 received a repaint in English White over black with an interior newly retrimmed in red leather seats with black piping. Under the present ownership the car has been carefully kept and stored in a climate-controlled garage. Most recently, the car was shown at the inaugural Audrain Concours d'Elegance in Newport, Rhode Island.

Equipped with the desirable 100M Le Mans upgrades dating back to very possibly Donald Healey's famous workshops when the car was brand new, this BN2 is true to the model's performance heritage and would be a wonderful entry on a number of classic car driving events and rallies. The Healey's engine and body tags are still intact and match the Heritage Trust Certificate. Overall, this wonderful example of Austin-Healey's excellent 100 BN2 should offer its next owner much joy and driving excitement.

This 100M Le Mans is offered with owner's handbook, tool roll, jack, tonneau cover, documentation of the repaint and the British Motor Industry-issued Heritage Trust Certificate. Mille Miglia eligible, the classic 100M Le Mans Healey remains one of the most popular mid-century sports cars ever produced, and this fine example deserves serious consideration.

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Lot 80
1966 LOLA T70 MK II SPORTS-RACING SPYDER
Sold for US$ 110,000 inc. premium
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1966 LOLA T70 MK II SPORTS-RACING SPYDER
Chassis no. SL71/28 (see text)
366ci OHV Chevrolet V8 Engine
4 Weber Twin-choke Carburetors
est. 500bhp at 7,000rpm
5-Speed Hewland LG500 Transaxle
4-Wheel Independent Suspension
4-Wheel Ventilated Disc Brakes

*Raced at prestigious tracks in period and in recent years
*Offered with FIA Historic Technical Passport
*A front-runner on most grids in capable hands
*Eligible for many prominent vintage racing events

Previewing at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California by appointment. Please contact motors.us@bonhams.com?subject=Sched...torcar Auctionfor scheduling.


THE LOLA TYPE 70

In the song from the 1955 musical Damn Yankees "Lola gets, whatever Lola wants", Eric Broadley had that hit song in mind when he christened his first sports-racing car built for customer sale the Lola Mark I. That little front-engined 1100cc sports-racing car proved itself more than capable of enabling its drivers to achieve their competitive aims, and through 1958 the Lola put the renowned Lotus 11 very much in the shade.

While the little Lola was incredibly pretty, its lightweight aluminum bodywork exquisitely well-proportioned, Broadley's new company – Lola Cars Ltd – went from strength to strength. By 1962 it was producing Formula 1 cars driven by legendary seven-times Motorcycle World Champion John Surtees, and in 1963 Broadley produced the compact, rear-engined Lola GT with American Ford V8 power to tackle the Le Mans 24-Hour race. That design – together with Broadley's services – were then snapped up by the Ford Motor Company as the foundation of its Ford GT program for 1964. The objective being victory at Le Mans.

It didn't quite work out that way. Broadley did not settle well into the ways of a gigantic corporation, and into 1965 he reclaimed his independence. And one of his first new designs was the big, American V8-engined, Lola T70 sports-racing car based upon the kind of aluminum-skinned monocoque chassis he had spent months trying to persuade Ford to adopt, instead of their GT design's heavy steel-skinned tub.

The Lola T70 followed the tradition established by Broadley's initial series of Mark I cars, in that its body design was sleek, streamlined, beautifully proportioned – and utterly gorgeous. The initial Lola T70 Spyder cars used Ford and Chevrolet V8 engines and contested contemporary FIA International Group 7 'unlimited-capacity sports-racing car' events, initially in the UK but very quickly within the USA. Lola's racing program was spearheaded by the quasi-works Team Surtees organization, with drivers John Surtees and Jackie Stewart contributing enormously to the sleek new design's development. Into 1966 John Surtees would win the inaugural Can-Am Championship title in the US and Canada in his spearhead Lola-Chevrolet T70. In 1967 a closed-cockpit Coupe version emerged as the initially Aston Martin V8-engined Lola T70. The design would be further developed into 1968-69 with the T70 Mark III in both open Spyder and closed forms. Lola T70s contested both the Can-Am and FIA World Championship endurance races, plus innumerable US Road Racing Championship, Nordic Cup and British and European Championship events over several seasons.


THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

According to a letter on file from Mr. Larry Webb - crew chief for legendary race car driver Jerry Grant at Dan Gurney's All American Racers team in 1966 - Mr. Webb picked up Lola T70 Mk II Spyder chassis no. SL71/28 from the US Lola distributor, John Mecom, sometime around February of 1966. The AAR Team would affix its own chassis number to the car, and then go on and race it with Jerry Grant at the wheel. According to Mr. Webb, Jerry Grant raced the car at several USRRS racing events during 1966, and after an accident at Mosport in June of 1966, the Lola T70 was rebuild with a new chassis tub acquired from Lola. The Lola continued to race, and indeed gained more success on the track, while also getting bruised up in other accidents. The Lola has seen use on the North American vintage racing circuits in later decades, at events such as the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, Toluca Lake Historics and Monterey Historic races. As with many racing cars of this era, there are other Lolas in existence carrying the same chassis number as this car.

Powerful and very competitive, these Lola T70 sports-racing cars made their mark on their era and gives the new owner an entry to a very competitive and exciting racing grid. As always, a mechanical safety check would be advised before driving the car to its limits again. This Lola is offered with its FIA Historic Technical Passport.

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Lot 75
1964 Lotus 23B Sports-Racer
Sold for US$ 92,400 inc. premium
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1964 LOTUS 23B SPORTS-RACER
Chassis no. 23-S-103
1,600cc DOHC Lotus-Ford 4-Cylinder Engine
2 Weber Twin-choke Carburetors
est. 196bhp at 8,000rpm
5-Speed Hewland Transaxle
4-Wheel Independent Suspension
4-Wheel Disc Brakes

*A very successful contender both in period and at current vintage racing events
*Thoroughly researched in comprehensive report compiled by noted historian Michael Oliver
*Expertly prepared and maintained by Epifani Restorations
*Eligible for a host of prominent vintage racing events around the globe

Previewing at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California by appointment. Please contact motors.us@bonhams.com?subject=Sched...torcar Auctionfor scheduling.


THE LOTUS 23

John Blunsden, much respected Associate Editor of 'Motor Racing' magazine in the UK, wrote in 1962 that "The Lotus 23 is the closest thing to the 22 Junior that it is possible to make, that will carry a scaled-down and smoothed out Appendix C (Lotus 19-type) Monte Carlo body...".

This was in fact the last purebred small-capacity sports-racing car to be designed from the ground up by Colin Chapman and his team. Upon its launch at the 1962 London Racing Car Show, the Lotus 23 emerged as the neatest, sleekest sports-racing car ever seen. Although it was intended essentially as an 1,100cc class contender, up-to-1,000cc engines were another option and early in the 1962 season Lotus developed its own twin-cam headed version of the Ford engine, which emerged as a 1,498cc unit. The first of these went into a works Type 23 which Jim Clark drove in the ADAC 1,000Kms World Championship round at the Nürburgring. There his performance in the little car was nothing less than stupendous, as he led the entire field until being overcome by fumes from a broken exhaust pipe.

Two works-backed Type 23s were then entered for the Le Mans 24-Hour race, one with 997cc and the other with 745cc engines, but the French scrutineers rejected them because while the front wheels had four-stud fixing the rears used six-stud. This contravened a requirement that the statutory spare wheel should fit both front and rear. Colin Chapman had the rear fixing modified to accept four studs only and so match the fronts, but the scrutineers then ruled out that ploy on the basis that if six studs were required in the original design, the Lotus would be plainly unsafe on only four. Concluding that the organizers were favoring rival French entries, and despite support from the British RAC, Colin Chapman was forced to withdraw the two 23s, vowing that his Lotus team would never race at Le Mans again; a vow he kept.

This did nothing to discourage tremendous sales success for the design. Into 1963 a Type 23B version was offered with more robust chassis and a 1,558cc Lotus-Ford Twin-Cam engine as standard. Lotus 23s in the 1-litre, 1,100cc and 1,600cc racing categories at everything from the most modest club to the most major International level raced throughout the UK, Europe, the Americas, Southern Africa and Australasia and proved immensely successful. Production 1962-64 ended with 131 cars produced, and many more have been assembled both in and out of period by outside specialists.


THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

This highly successful Lotus 23B Sports-Racer, chassis no 23-S-103, is offered with a comprehensive, 58-page report compiled by noted Lotus 23 historian, Michael Oliver. The report is well-detailed and contains scans of the factory invoices and build sheets from Lotus, and neatly documents the car's impressive racing and ownership history. First owner, Paul Webb, campaigned the Lotus at prominent club events around the UK during the 1964 and 1965 racing seasons, including outings at Snetterton, Brands Hatch and Silverstone. There are some lovey pictures on file from this period, showing 23-S-103 at speed. The car was sold by Mr. Webb to Peter Beach in 1965, who would continue to race the competitive Lotus, before selling it to Peter Beaver in 1968. Mr. Beaver also raced the Lotus, which at this time had received some modifications to the bodywork and proved to remain competitive as he won at Silverstone with the car in 1968.

By the early 1970s, 23-S-103 migrated to Canada, where it continued its racing career in the hands of Barrie Bratt, Alan Downing and Greg Griffiths. American race car driver and car broker Dirk Layer acquired the Lotus in 1987 and campaigned it at vintage racing events around the US, before selling it in 1990 to Joe Graziano, with whom the car would remain for about 15 years. Noted Bay Area collector Peter Read purchased the car in 2005, and entrusted renowned specialist Jim Groom and Epifani Restorations to prepare and maintain 23-S-103 for vintage racing, a tradition which has been kept until this day. Additionally, Dan Marvin has helped keep the Lotus sorted and track-ready. Offered from decade-long ownership in the hands of a noted vintage race car driver and enthusiast, this successful Lotus 23B is ready to continue its impressive track record and is eligible for the most prestigious vintage racing events around the Globe.

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