for the helmet cam view of this race: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/red-bull-hare-scramble-2016.html
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Erzberg Austria 2016 Red Bull Hare Scramble up the gravel pit
for the helmet cam view of this race: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/red-bull-hare-scramble-2016.html
Doug Anderson, gravity racing down a North Carolina mountain road
next video, start at the 2:40 mark
skip to the :50 second mark
I think they designed this soapbaox racer to have a steering wheel interchangeable with the other 4 wheels... that is brilliant! Probably never need to do a quick roadside swap, but if you did, wow... you'd be off on your way with a flat, taco'd, or busted "steering" wheel, and that would not hamper steering at all!
I also think that the wood crate is perfect
strange looking windscreen on this Vespa
looks like an aftermarket windscreen, which had a solid front and top, and a soft material dropcloth on the back
https://www.facebook.com/marcantoine.giorgi/media_set?set=a.10154436205530236.1073741840.524390235&type=3
today is the 50th running of the Caminos Del Inca Rally, starting in Lima, then through the Andes mountains, around Lake Titicaca and through the arid deserts of southern Peru (thanks Steph 23555 ! )
98 cars will attempt the 4,000 kilometre route, sometimes driving for more than 12 hours a day
this happens to be from the camera in a car that is faster than the others in the race, and so you see them passing, and re-passing, which is cool. It's at a good speed on the highway, maybe 90-100 mph
Unfortunate though, around the 13th minute, the car has a problem in the engine, and has to pull over and step out.
Friday, October 21, 2016
the R code 4 door Holman Moody '63 Galaxie
It's believed to be the only four door Galaxy built for racing.
It was ordered in 62 by Len Lukey and delivered pre-paid to Australia
Only that upon arrival all the light weight panels, bumper and brakes had to be replaced with stock items as the rules at the time was for 'Production Sedans' and these items were not available to the public at the showroom in Australia. It is R code and came with the 427 low riser
After a period of being driven as a road registered car, and after much effort Gary Smith tracked the car down and purchased it from the outer north eastern suburbs of Melbourne. After moving to Perth, the car was sold to Wayne Holland, who sent it to Marc Ducquet in NSW for sorting and an engine rebuild. This was at approximately the same time Marc was preparing his fastback. The fourdoor then returned to Gary in Perth and was raced in (historic) Appendix J class for several years.
David Bowden owns this car. Soon after purchasing the car from Wayne, the car was given a full mechanical restoration, and is now on display in the fabulous racing car collection David has on display in Australia.
http://www.galaxie.com.au/racing.html
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/holman-moody-the-history.571847/page-18
http://www.ponysite.de/bowdens_paradise.htm
http://www.randyayersmodeling.com/modelingforum/viewtopic.php?p=505423&sid=ab60902477035ce69598672ea688b59f
good idea for your car in long term parking;
if you leave your car in the long-term parking at an airport, you should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener.
Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, thieves will know what houses to rob while you're on vacation.... and if they also steal your garage door opener, they won't even have to break into your house if you have an attached garage.
the Dunn Reath rear engine 'Cuda funny car was the only rear engine funny car to win a national event, the 1972 NHRA Supernationals.
The car featured a trick Woody Gilmore chassis with Dunn & Reath’s 392 Chrysler Hemi for power.
http://www.70sfunnycars.com/FunnyCars31.html
http://classicfunnycarboard.com/CFB/index.php/topic,834.2325.html
the world’s largest salt flat is in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes
Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat at 4,086 sq mi which makes it roughly 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Salar de Uyuni is at an elevation of 11,995 ft above mean sea level.
The area has a relatively stable average temperature with a peak at 70 °F in November to January and a low of 55 °F in June. The nights are cold all through the year, with temperatures between 16 and 41 °F
one of the three American Motors team cars that won the Team Prize in the 1968 Shell 4000 rally
Sid Dickson of Maryland bought the car after the finish of the Shell 4000 for use in the 1968 London To Sydney Marathon rally and in the final standings, he was ranked as finishing 46th Overall.
https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/new-book-about-the-1968-london-to-sydney-marathon/
https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/shell-4000-rally-rambler-american-development-car/
Jay and a 1912 Indian that did the Cannonball
there it is right in the center, after just crossing the finish line at the 2016 Cannonball
Kaiser took a Rambler, blended it's design with Pinin Farina sytle elements, and called it the IKA Torino
In the 1960s Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) decided to take an American Motors Corporation car, the Rambler American, and blend in some styling modifications by Pinin Farina. The engine was an inline 6-cylinder engine that had been originally designed for Willys. The result of all of this was the IKA Torino shown below.
https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/the-ika-torino-amc-should-have-imported-this-car/
Someone finally found a Ferrari they could rally through Africa with... astonishing. Not surprising though, is that a tiny part came lose and destroyed a bearing and stopped the power from getting to the wheels
It's a 1975 308GT4. Tanzania and Kenya were the countries they blasted through.
It did not finish due to a $3 circlip/ snap ring/ C Clip slipped along a transmission drive shaft and allowed a bearing to move. This resulted in no forward motion after just making the 12th fastest time on the last section that they completed.
the winner of the 1968 Shell 4000 mile rally across Canada, a Barracuda
https://stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/barracuda-wins-the-1968-shell-4000-rally/
They were in 2nd place in the 1967 rally, and further developed the car for the '68 rally, successfully. This was the 1st time an American car maker won a World Championship Rally.
Driver Scott Harvey Sr. was the engineer in charge of Chrysler's Plymouth Barracuda racing program, Ralph was a math student.
In partial payment for his Chrysler Rally Team work, the company gave the 22-year-old Beckman one of their cars, a less radical version of the Barracuda in which he and Harvey had won the trans-Canada event.
"Visually, the cars were identical, blue with a white stripe, but my car didn't have all the racing parts," recalls Beckman. "I built mine into a car for SCCA events, and I ran some national rallies in it. Then I put it away, and it rotted in a garage in Michigan for years."
http://www.heritech.org/mopax/MCHist.html
Rallying to Win: A Complete Guide to North American Rallying By Jean Calvin
In 1999, Beckman reunited with Scott Harvey Sr., and the pair finished second in class at Mexico's Carrera Panamerica in Harvey's Porsche 356.
About two years later, Beckman decided to resurrect the Barracuda. "I decided it would be fun to redo it and bring it back as a fully competitive car, one that is indicative of how good the Shell car really was," he explains. "Scott was running the Barracuda Trans Am program at the time, so it was basically a fully developed Trans Am car. For years I've been searching for all the bits and pieces and assembling them into a proper rally car."
The Barracuda has been built to the Group II Grand Touring homologation specifications that were in effect in the late 1960s, with safety updates that fall into line with the FIA Appendix K for Historic Rallying. Under the hood is a 340 CID Chrysler V8, mated to an aluminum case 4-speed transmission. Though many final drive ratios are allowed, Beckman will be using a 4.11:1 ring and pinion in the differential.
"One of the more limiting factors is the tires," said Beckman. "The rules limit tire choice to 70-series profile, and there aren't many companies that still build those, much less in a performance tire."
http://winktimber.com/vintagerally/cars/beckman1.htm
there were some other cool cars rally racing across Canada, Shelby GT 350 Cobra Mustang
And an AMC Rebel
http://www.kwa-kwa.pl/strona/zagranica-rajdy/itemlist/category/915-6-shell-4000-cross.html
Houston we have a problem... what else can you say when you have a car club for a specific manufacturer, and find more cars in your registry than the factory made. Ooops!
ERA, the English Racing Automobile, 1934-38, has a website that tracks the ownership of each chassis made, and who has owned it.
Well, here's an example of how things go kattywampus:
Walker did have a new sprint car in 1952 but it was an almost standard Cooper Bristol chassis and body powered by the two litre ERA engine that had been used in R10B during 1949.
GP1’s chassis was fitted with a Jaguar XK120 engine at some stage in the early 1950s and then returned to the ERA works at Dunstable from where it was bought by Ken Flint.
When Flint bought GP1 it had neither body nor engine.
Flint and Verdun Edwards combined the two E types (the chassis of GP1/the body of GP2) with a Jaguar XK engine to create a sports car.
That they had more cars in the club than the company made wasn't even noticed for a while.
http://www.eraclub.co.uk/section405354.html
on the north island of New Zealand, are a couple of hardcore rallycar fanatics, to such an extent that Marty Loughnan built himself a Lancia Stratos, from scratch!
I know the image you see below isn't the Stratos, but when videos are embedded, sometimes you don't get it to show what you want of the many minutes of video, in the one screen grab
