Watkins Glen Vintage Grand Prix Awaits! What Would YOU Drive?

"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm) 09/04/2013 at 10:25 • Filed to: None

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What favorite race car of yours would you like to drive where? A Hudson Hornet on Daytona Beach? An Alfa Tipo 33 through the Mille Miglia? A 917 down Mulsanne?

This weekend at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the featured marque is the Austin Mini Cooper! This should be interesting having the Glen invaded by Mini's I can't friggin wait! If you are going this year wave up at the announcer's booth I'll be there for the SCCA! Anyone else going?
Go to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! they are blowing it up with some seriously sweet pics from across the ages. Here's some I took last year. Axe for any closeups er more I'll post in comments this is some work.

SO Loud! So Angry!

Unfortunately he DNF'd. Avg Joe with a young fam who loves his Datsun.

Dat Big Rig ...

That Cobra is the most Carbon fiber laden of any in existence...most of it is CF.

Among the loudest...

Cam Argetsinger wanted to create a "Mini Nurburgring" and insisted the course he laid out was more challenging than many in Europe at the time. Drive the old course you might believe him.

Decay buys too many beaters > banjo cat ghost of oppo past 09/04/2013 at 10:45

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Nice Photodump!

If I had to choose a vintage car and a track, I'd love to take a Lotus Eleven onto the Monaco GP circuit

It's a "Porch-uh" > banjo cat ghost of oppo past 09/04/2013 at 11:23

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That reminds me that Coronado Festival of Speed is coming up. I need to get working on a press pass.

banjo cat ghost of oppo past > It's a "Porch-uh" 09/05/2013 at 08:51

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That looks like a real blast. Tons of hoonable pavement

It's a "Porch-uh" > banjo cat ghost of oppo past 09/05/2013 at 10:21

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Horrible on tires though. It's a special texture on the concrete that the Navy uses to help slow down the big planes that land there. So both the grip and drift guys are burning through tires faster.