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This years "Sunday in the Park" at Lime Rock honored Marque will be the Corvette. A highlight will be the first time 12 of the best Corvette Concept Cars will be gathered at one time. The 1953 Motorama display car, which was shown at the Waldorf Astoria hotel will be there, as will the 1959 Sting Ray Racer, the 1961 Mako Shark, 1969 Manta Ray, the 1972 Reynolds Aluminum Corvette, the 1963 Corvette Rondine by Pinafarina, the 1959 Scaglietta Corvette and more. I'm bringing my 1965 Corvair Monza as it will be in the Concours part of the event. No doubt many other Corvettes will there at the Gathering of the Marques area. Looks like it will be quite a day. It's Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Sept 4th
We arrived at 9:30 and parked on the track with the Corvettes in the Gathering of the Marques section. Unfortunately, I overheat and am very susceptible to heat exhaustion at temps above about 85, so we left at 1:00. The L72 with the new power brakes performed flawlessly and I love the brake upgrade! Here are some pics including one of Mrs. Factoid standing by our car because people tend to remember seeing her and ignore me!
I love this one! Very Speed Racer like. This guy looks more like a modern Camaro. These Jags were also cool. There is something about a V12 with headers that excites me! She actually had a good time, but thinks the side pipes are too loud (nope, they are perfect with that big solid lifter cam).
Anyone nearby Lime Rock on Sept 1 st might consider dropping by Falls Village CT . Many of the racers from the vintage events converge on this sleepy7 town for a "cars and coffee" type event.. Cars begin motoring in around 5:30 and hang around for a couple hours (weather permitting) great photo opportunities
Brakes upgraded and bled, oil changed, and chassis lubed. I’m taking a long drive on Saturday just to make sure all is good given the wife is with me and I don’t want another Porsche 930 incident!
Brakes upgraded and bled, oil changed, and chassis lubed. I’m taking a long drive on Saturday just to make sure all is good given the wife is with me and I don’t want another Porsche 930 incident!
Hope all goes well for everyone headed that way..... sounds like a great time!!!
Have no idea what your 930 incident was..... my only experience with a 930 was in High School, when an older friend who detailed cars for a local, well known Porsche repair shop showed up with a 930 Turbo, and was giving rides...... quickest car I had ever ridden in, and by far the best stopping car ever...... I can still feel the seatbelt indentation across my chest......
Brakes upgraded and bled, oil changed, and chassis lubed. I’m taking a long drive on Saturday just to make sure all is good given the wife is with me and I don’t want another Porsche 930 incident!
Have a safe trip. I'm on 413-237-9629. Cell service at the track is spotty. The powers up there don't like towers any more than they like a race track.
I'll be there all weekend, crewing on three cars, a 65 roadster in Group 7 (Fast Production/Sports Racing Cars), a 71 coupe in Group 9 (Big Bore Cars) and a 67 Camaro in Group 3 (Historic Trans Am). It should be an interesting weekend....and a busy one! Right now I'm not exactly sure where we're paddocked, but if you see us stop by and say hi. My name is Glenn and I'll probably be around one of the cars.
This is the 65. It has been a race car since about 1970.
This is the 71 (yes, it does have 69 louvers. They were installed by a previous owner). This was a street car till about 6-8 years ago, whan the previous owner decided to turn it into a vintage racer.
And this is the 67 Trans Am Camaro. The Camaro was turned into a race car in 71, and competed in a couple Trans Am races in 72, and the 72 Lime Rock IMSA race, where it won it's class.
I’ll be parked in the Gathering of the Marques section on Sunday. See you there and yes pictures will be shared.
My 930 story:
About 15 years ago we were living in Chester Springs, PA. I found a 1986 Porsche 930 RUF for sale just south of Chicago with 30k original miles for $35k (oh how I wish I still had it!). The wife and I flew to Chicago to drive it back. During the PPI that I had conducted by the local Porsche dealer, they replaced the battery in the fronk, said the car was otherwise perfect, and mentioned the front (right next to the battery) AC condenser fan was making a bit of noise. If you know about air cooled 911 Porsches with AC, you know there are two condensers (small packaging means no single space for a single normal sized condenser, so two) and the front condenser fan is unfused. We planned to drive the Pittsburgh, visit my niece going to law school, and spend the night. It was in the 80’s and muggy, so we ran the AC the entire drive. This car was a beast 0-60 in the low 3 seconds. Down right scary, but civilized and a great driver on the highway. We are tooling along just entering the Pittsburgh area in rush hour traffic, when smoke starts coming out of the AC vent, a little and then a lot. I pull over and smoke is coming out of the frunk. The wife freaks out and runs up the highway. I pop the frunk and the condenser fan is on fire and has partially melted (a mere flesh wound) my brand new $250 Porsche battery (hey, I had no choice, they were doing the PPI in Illinois and I was in PA). I grabbed the wife’s water bottle that she had conveniently cast aside as she dashed away from the fiery death trap she now believed my 930 to be, and put out the fire. After a quick inspection that determined (95%) smoke damage, I unplugged the condenser fan and got back in the car. It took me longer to talk the wife into getting back in the death trap than it did to catch up with her now a 1/4 mile down the highway. We continued on and got home the next day with no further issue.
Here is the 930 in absolutely perfect condition, except I left it in the driveway overnight and it got a bit of frost on it.
[QUOTE=gbvette62;1605624235]I'll be there all weekend, crewing on three cars, a 65 roadster in Group 7 (Fast Production/Sports Racing Cars), a 71 coupe in Group 9 (Big Bore Cars) and a 67 Camaro in Group 3 (Historic Trans Am). It should be an interesting weekend....and a busy one! Right now I'm not exactly sure where we're paddocked, but if you see us stop by and say hi. My name is Glenn and I'll probably be around one of the cars.
This is the 65. It has been a race car since about 1970.
This is the 71 (yes, it does have 69 louvers. They were installed by a previous owner). This was a street car till about 6-8 years ago, whan the previous owner decided to turn it into a vintage racer.
And this is the 67 Trans Am Camaro. The Camaro was turned into a race car in 71, and competed in a couple Trans Am races in 72, and the 72 Lime Rock IMSA race, where it won it's class.
[/QUOTEI believe the 65 Corvette and the 67 Camaro belong to Jim Glass.
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I am bummed! Due to the weather forecasts for Sunday and Monday at Lime Rock I will not be able to bring my 1969 427/435 L71 Car. I only have an open car trailer, and the reason the undercarriage looks the way it does is because in 53 years it has rarely ever seen rain. Next year... enclosed car trailer!
08-24-2022, 09:00 AM
Corvettes at Lime Rock
