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This stuff was in the trunk....
(I'm leaving out over a dozen other trophies because the little brass tags where lost)
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inscribed as follows...
CASTLE SPORTS CAR CLUB
TURKEY SCRAMBLE GYMKAHANA NOV 1965
1ST PLACE ROADSTER CHUCK CYPHERT

URCHEK'S 2ND ANNUAL
BEANSOUP GYMHANA 9-18-66
3RD PLACE C.CYPHERT

CASTLE SPORTS CAR CLUB
2ND ANNUAL RALLY
1ST PLACE DRIVER CHUCK CYPHERT

CASTLE SPORTS CAR CLUB
SECOND PLACE MEMBER CAR
APRIL 1961 NIGHT RALLY

CASTLE SPORTS CAR CLUB
3RD PLACE WINNER
JUNE RALLY 1961

Here is another item from the trunk....
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Was the Castle Sports Car Club in New Castle?
He told me he used to hang out with the North Hills Sport Car Club folks...
Is it the same thing now?
 
wow.

I honestly don't know. The North Hills guys would/should.

I've recently reconnected with a friend who may know but he's just gone back "up there" for the summer.

My involvement was with Steel Cities Region SCCA guys. And mostly 1974~'80.
 
I've got some other folks that might know...

Don Miller has been in Steel City forever.
As well as Bish Hines & Chuck McCandless.

A lot of that information isn't going to be 1st person pretty soon :eeek:
 
"Back in the day" it was rife with ~characters~ too. Just this Monday had that conversation with my long-lost pal about a few of 'em. I left the area in '80, lost touch with so many of 'em. Good number have gone now, so get all of the first-person recollections ya can!
 
Ask 'em if they remember Jerry Wheeler. Engineer, drove an EP MGB. "Butterscotch" color. Always wore a Civil War era gray infantry cap... Jerry lived in Sewickley. We would spend many evenings in his garage, "engineering" on the B and drinkin' Walker Black. My main efforts were on a Formula A machine, Myron Yoho's car.

I do touch base with Jim Boffo once in a while.
 
You guys are talking my home turf. I grew up in Squirrel Hill. My dad was an SCCA guy back in the 60's. I still have a few of his trophies.
 
Geez, Pete!!! How's-come yins din't pap up sooner?!?! :jester:


Me an' Horsemits left Sewickley in '80~'81... Squirrel Hill is a "known entity". :wink:
 
"drinkin' Walker Black".

I knew there was a reason why I respect you!

I prefer the Blue myself. Whaddya expect from a guy who grew up on Tequila.


Fortunately my bottle of Blue is the big size, so it lasts a looooooong time.
 
Geez, Ron!!! "Blue" weren't even AROUND back then!

...or we'd have been sippin' it! :thumbsup:
 
Squirrel Hill!!! I lived there (Darlington Rd.) in '66/'69, also East Liberty and Shadyside! 'til '71. Some of those names you guys are bandying have a familiar ring from my days with Bruce Klussman (we ran a formula Junior, then a FC and then a FB!). I was kinda partial to "Old Bavarian" (the local variety) back in them days!
PS those trophys found in the boot add a real nice piece of "provenance" to your find!!
 
I lived at 217 S. Homewood Blvd. Right next to the Frick Museum. My house is the admin. building for the Museum now. Our garage is the museum restaurant. I went to St. Edmunds Academy. We moved to Fla in '75. I don't know what class it was my dad raced in those days but it was the relatively new class, economical, Formula Vee or something like that? He married my mom and that was the end of his racing career. :smile: He was big in the RROC, tis where I get my love of all things cars, especially British.
 
He knows Jan Ducoslav then.
 
I lived in a Lawrenceville slum for some time as a kid...

Nice place if ya wanna live out a Dickens novel :eeek:
 
I've a friend here who can't GIVE away a piece of property in Lawrenceville. Nobody wants it.

Is th' "Raspberry Rhinoceros" still in Shadyside? :jester:
 
Taxes are getting ridiculous...
I can see where a free house might not be worth it.
It's like a mortgage you have no hope of ever paying off.

I'll have to check on the Raspberry Rhinoceros...
I know an expert on Shadyside
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Good grief, I didn't realize how old this thread was until I saw Tonys reply! :rolleyes2:
 
I saw that myself, the thread lay dormant for twelve years.
 
Sure miss Tony!
 
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