Old Race Cars

[mkane]

http://www.vft.org/Museums/RevsInstitute/RevsInstitute.html

 

[Yamaki]

Lots of cool race history there.

 

[TPettenati]

I've been a long time fan of the REVs digital library. It's a co-op project from the REVs Institute and Stanford University.

The Revs Digital Library

The BROWSE and SEARCH links take you to a powerful search tool. You can search by year, event, marque, venue, people, etc.

 

[squirrelnest]

Interesting....thanks for posting!

 

[MaxxVolume]

There`s an amazing amount of old race car history there. Back in the mid-`80s, my wife and I were on vacation in Newport Beach, California, and got a chance to tour the museum when it was still owned by Briggs Cunningham, shortly before it closed.
I actually touched the Chrysler Hemi-powered Cunningham C3 which is now owned by Jay Leno !

 

[jntit]

Great looking cars, works of art. A lot like the old clipper ships, technology passed them by quite a while ago, but still something about them.

 

[Chip Chester]

Check out the SVRA schedule to see if there's an upcoming race near you. You'll see cars like these doing what they were meant to do.
https://svra.com/news/svra-announces-2018-schedule/
Spent last weekend at MidOhio Sports Car watching them. Another interesting event is up at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie at the end of summer. More of a hike from CA and WA, of course. But out there, there's less weather dependency in the schedule.

 

[Christian B]

Nice collection! If you get to the Philadelphia area check out the Simeone Museum. Its full of race cars of all vintages.

http://www.simeonemuseum.org/

 

[tanker 200]

Check out the SVRA schedule to see if there's an upcoming race near you. You'll see cars like these doing what they were meant to do.
https://svra.com/news/svra-announces-2018-schedule/
Spent last weekend at MidOhio Sports Car watching them. Another interesting event is up at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie at the end of summer. More of a hike from CA and WA, of course. But out there, there's less weather dependency in the schedule.

I was at Pacific Raceways (WA) yesterday for a SOVERN race, the weather didn't cooperate but the rain didn't keep everyone off the track (although it did help some off)

A happy Sprite in the lead

 

[851 SP3]

Another interesting event is up at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie at the end of summer

A few friends of mine are running at PIB. They'll have, last we spoke, a Lotus Eleven, Lotus 23, Maserati 150S, and a FIAT 850 Spider on track. A Porsche 962 will also be on static display.

 

[mkane]

Brings back the 50's for me. My dad raced SCCA back then. My parents have a pic of me riding behind the front seats in their TD.