Zippo Vintage GP @ the Glen

[Tony356993]

http://www.grandprixfestival.com/

 

A few of us will be heading to the Glen for this event. It is a must see if you enjoy vintage cars AND vintage race cars. Porsche is the marque of the year. Check out http://www.356midatlantic.org/ and get more details by joining the yahoo group.



 

 

[Brian Minkin]

Also taking place the same time in Watkins Glen

PCA Escape To The Finger Lakes

Wine tours, scenic roads, vintage motor sports at Watkins Glen — you choose at this laid back social weekend in the Finger Lakes area of New York State, September 7-10, 2006. PCA Escapes to the Finger Lakes, Geneva, NY. Hosted by Zone 1. For more info go to - http://zone1.pca.org Registration opens - June 15, 2006


 



http://zone1.pca.org

 

Henry Hoeh - Event Chair

1gplus@optonline.net

Don Wolcott - Event Registrar

Zone1escapes@comcast.net

[Tony356993]

Brian,

Are you heading up?

I did sign up for the car coral and hospitality tent for PCA. It really is a great time. If you sign up for one of the festival tours, you get a few laps of the original course through the town. It is pretty cool to ride w/ a police escort through closed roads.

[Brian Minkin]

Tony,

Have to make choices and I am trying to do 2 DE's in Sept.  The RTR and Allegany at Beaver Run.  Thats all the time off I can afford.

[Tony356993]

Date for 2007 is Sept 7th. It is a wonderfule event filled with hundreds of vintage automobiles. I'm headed back again. Wanna Go?

http://www.grandprixfestival.com/

[Mike Andrews]

Tony356993 wrote:

Brian,

Are you heading up?

I did sign up for the car coral and hospitality tent for PCA. It really is a great time. If you sign up for one of the festival tours, you get a few laps of the original course through the town. It is pretty cool to ride w/ a police escort through closed roads.

I've had a police escort a few times...... They had their lights and siren going but they were behind me hock: Does that count?

Anybody want to guess at what 6,200 RPM in high gear translates to

[smankow]

it would vary by the vehicle.  In some cars, it may equate to a bouncing off of the rev-limiter.

[Tony356993]

Anybody want to guess at what 6,200 RPM in high gear translates to

 

I guess your were using the 2X the speed limit rule .... + a bit.

[Tony356993]

Some video from 2006.

http://www.4utraining.com/EventStreams/e...6/msh.html

[dmano]

I have been racing with SVRA for 10 years now and SP was one of our greatest party event weekends until SVRA stopped going because of the track conditions. SVRA cars are the nicest around and worth a lot of money most are original race cars from the hay days.  The Glen IS the best show around to go see the best pedigree cars from racing history. I run a 1972 Celica that Janett Guthery drove in the Trans Am series dubed the Bumble Bee and crew on 3 Gt1 Trans Am Corvettes all Ex- Greenwood Corvettes and 1 SCCA Escort Series ZR1 If you have never been to the Zippo event it is a must do if you want to see well over 300 million dollars worth of racing history. For you Porsche guys there is always about 50+ there.   

Go to the SVRA site and you can see all the shots from last year.

http://www.svra.com/

Below is the GLen

http://www.svra.com/SVRA/photogal.nsf/pl...JEN-6TJUAY