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Rob Swindells
3rd equal in Goldline Bearings FFord Championship (29 Points);
ONE point behind Championship Leader (as of round 5 of 6)
"If you're a great driver, you will get through. It's not harder than
any time before." ~Martin Brundle
"Winning, that you can't know, 'fighting' ...that I know..." ~Jacques
Villeneuve pre'96
Chris
>> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:43:14 +0100,
>> >Does anyone know how Jack Brabham is after that *** crash of his at
>> >Goodwood, I taped the race but his injuries still weren't public
>> >knowledge when it finished.
>He's 100% fine, too bad about the McLaren!
Cheers
Blackrat
Brain Fade Racing
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~black_rat/legends.htm
That's true - I believe there are some "restored" classic cars where the
only original part is the chassis registration plate!
- Michael
> That's true - I believe there are some "restored" classic cars where the
> only original part is the chassis registration plate!
> - Michael
> > That's true - I believe there are some "restored" classic cars where the
> > only original part is the chassis registration plate!
I can recommend Goodwood to all RAS'ers, and I just can't understand you british
guys who don't go.....A ticket to a rallycoss event in a muddy bog is more expensive
here! My plane ticket put me back 250, then there was the rental car, hotel,
food....and I'll keep going as long as the event is anything like what it was this
year!
:)=
Matt
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The GPL Preservation Society
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Cheek Racing Cars;
http://www.cheekracing.electra.no
I agree about over-restoring........(I think I am qualified to comment,
being the owner of a couple of 50-year old classic cars). Some of the
sterile pieces of static machinery (no other way to describe them) that
appear at prestigous concours events world-wide are dreadful in that regard.
Pebble Beach is a typical "over-restorers" dream!
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I can well imagine, but hey, even one of our racecars looks better after retirement
than it did on its debut :-)
> > I can recommend Goodwood to all RAS'ers, and I just can't understand you
> british
> > guys who don't go.....A ticket to a rallycoss event in a muddy bog is more
> expensive
> > here! My plane ticket put me back 250, then there was the rental car,
> hotel,
> > food....and I'll keep going as long as the event is anything like what it
> was this
> > year!
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Cheek Racing Cars;
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Cleaning out the grooves in the tires with toothbrushes is not my idea
of fun either. But with cars used for racing, I can understand the
tendency to over-restore better: you want a car that is fast and
reliable. What's the point of using, say, an original cork gasket
which needs replacing ever so often when you can get a replacement
made of a more modern material? It can be overdone, however.
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BK
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BK.
Incidentally.....if a "modern material" gasket were used in place of an
original cork gasket, and was detected, the judges would mark it down in a
Concours event.
By "over restored" I'm referring to cars that are finished to a far higher
standard than when they were sitting, brand new, in a showroom.
> >I agree about over-restoring........(I think I am qualified to comment,
> >being the owner of a couple of 50-year old classic cars).
> Just curious - what cars do you own? I have a couple of 30-year+ old
> *ahem* not really classic cars which definitely are not over-restored.
> In fact, they are more or less junkers right now, but one day, I will
> restore them... As soon as I have money *and* time at once, which will
> probably be 30 years from now. ;) But hey, that's the beauty of
> classic machinery: it's only getting better and more interesting the
> older it gets.
> >Some of the
> >sterile pieces of static machinery (no other way to describe them) that
> >appear at prestigous concours events world-wide are dreadful in that
regard.
> >Pebble Beach is a typical "over-restorers" dream!
> Cleaning out the grooves in the tires with toothbrushes is not my idea
> of fun either. But with cars used for racing, I can understand the
> tendency to over-restore better: you want a car that is fast and
> reliable. What's the point of using, say, an original cork gasket
> which needs replacing ever so often when you can get a replacement
> made of a more modern material? It can be overdone, however.
> --
> Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.
cancellation
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