Pittsburgh Vintage-Photos, etc.

[aeronca65t]

The Pittsburgh Vintage at BeaveRun was spectacular. It was great to meet up with Michael O. and lots of other good folks. I hope that I can stay for the Sheneley Park street races next year (Michael is probably at them as I write this).

~Click Here~ to see a video from the event.

I'm doing some editing using forward-looking and rear-looking cameras so it's kind of interesting (but I don't think Steven Spielberg has anything to worry about yet).

~Click Here~ To See ALL My Photos and Videos from the event.

Samples:

 

[DART]

Thanks for the videos, Nial. You had a nice duel going with the #162 car...what was the end result?? Also nice to see there was at least one SP racing, thanks for the pic.

 

[AngliaGT]

Nial,

What's that in the second picture?An OTAS?
The Green car.
- Doug

 

[aeronca65t]

Dale:

I saw that SP at our Jeff-500 event earlier in 09. He may be from your area.....I'll look for his name.

Doug:

The lime green car is an Abarth Scorpion. Lots of FIAT 850 parts and a coupe' body. There are several pictures on my link (above) of the car....it's a regular with us. Here's one picture

 

[Silverghost]

Great pictures! I rather liked that all white car with the bright green "1". What is it? And that one driver's GPS/Nav system seemed to have malfunctioned.....were they ever heard from again??

 

[aeronca65t]

The all-white car with the "1" was powered by an Aston-Martin / Lagonda V8, and it has "Aston-Martin" in the nose, but I think it was more of a "special" than anything else.

Not too fast but looked like it would go 200 mph.

And I forgot to mention to Dale, the #162 silver car belongs to Chris Meyers, the head of the MG Vintage Racers Club.

https://www.mgvr.org/

Chris also has a racing MGA twin-cam.

#162 is a quarter-elliptic Spridget (pre-'63) with a good 1275 engine. It would murder my car in straight line speed but I could give him a good chase in the turns.

 

[Michael Oritt]

The Aston-Martin was next to me in the paddock--the owner said it was a real factory Le Mans car from the 1980's and that he had just put it together and was running it for the first time in 25 years or so. It sounded very docile but sure looked fast.

The black Daimler SP 250 belonged, I think, to Joe Dockman--I don't think he had a lot of luck over the weekend.

 

[DART]

Thanks Michael, I thought Joe was still trying to get his credentials sorted out. I'll give him a call.