Misc Vintage Racing Clips

[rtj]

I imagine the “new guy” had to work the starter on these. Probably a lot of singed eyebrows when they raced these.

 

[rtj]

 

[BBShark]

The YT video of the Gurney Indy car ended with a link to a video about the 3.0liter V12 F1 car. Really good "how it was made" info.

 

[rtj]

Gurney had some winning history. Nice overview.

This vid below is way too long, but I listened to it while doing some work. Still have a bit to go, but some of the details are pretty interesting.

 

[BBShark]

Nice video. My dad was one of those people that thought the invasion of rear engine cars in Indy was going to ruin racing forever. He took me to a race when I was a kid in ~1965. His favorite driver was Jim Hurtibise who spent years racing an old front engined Offy, until he couldn't qualify (to slow). Hurtibise sprint car driver that was a local fan favorite.

I think he kept trying until the early 70's. My dad told me that Hurtibise said "I'm going to win Indy or die trying".

 

[rtj]

Yeah, there were local legends in Indy. The newspaper covered the track for 4 or 5 weeks before the race. Lived close by from 87-96.

 

[rtj]

Hey, does anyone have good photos of a c2 or c3 race car showing how the dzus fasteners are done for the front and rear clip? With the body mounted and removed would be good. If I find any in the coming months, will post here.

Started moving my frame around in order to clean and re-paint the house garage. Yeah, I know it’s purple , but the whole car was 1500$ and sold $3000 worth of parts from it. So this was free ( plus a bunch of other stuff I kept).

 

[phantomjock]

GOOGLE-FOO?

That is the first post on CF and a few more after - might be useful.
"how did they dzus this..."
But hey - whoever thinks CF has any good... never mind. I'll be looking there too for ideas for body mounts like that.

Cheers - Jim