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Updated: The 70th running of the Mt Equinox Hillclimb, was sanctioned by the Vintage Sports Car Club of America (VSCCA) which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The event was held on August 11 & 12th, 2018, on the Skyline Drive that travels to the top of Mount Equinox. The Mountain is 3840 feet high,…
So, just who is “Sophia,” what kind of auto racing does the VSCCA Club sanction, and where is the Mount Equinox Hillclimb? In today’s primer for a series of future posts covering the Event, the Club, and the Car we can only give you a brief rundown today due to just returning from the event last…
James (Jim) Hoe of Weston, Connecticut, was a well-known Duesenberg mechanic in the 1950s, and a sports car and racing enthusiast. Classic cars became popular with collectors in the mid-1950s, with the Model “J” Duesey being the most desirable of all. Hoe then began restoring the famed Model “J” Duesenberg cars in his Sports Car Garage located…
Like many automotive fads and trends, the miniature car racing movement apparently started in California in the late-1930s by individuals who constructed cars using small gasoline-powered two-stroke model airplane engines. After learning more about the little racing cars recently, and viewing some of the interesting pre and post-war newsreel films covering “spindizzies” and “tether” racing cars…
The Bear Manufacturing Co. of Rock Island, Illinois, for over four decades set up its state of the art wheel alignment equipment near the car garages in Gasoline Alley and offered wheel alignments to all car owners and crew chiefs. Today’s pair of staged images, taken on May 4, 1954, contains a Bear Manufacturing Co. wheel alignment rack and…
Earlier in the week, Charlie Stuart’s 1953 Studebaker Commander Hoosier “100” Pace Car was featured here, and today we cover the Indianapolis Oldsmobile dealer’s involvement in the 1960 Indianapolis 500 race. But first, we need to return back to the 1950s and two racing incidents that changed the face of the sport forever. At the 1955…
In addition to running the Indianapolis 500 race which is held yearly on Memorial Day weekend, in 1953 the AAA, the sanctioning body of the National Championship Trail Races added a second race date to the calendar in Indy, the Hoosier “100.” This race was held in mid-September on the one-mile dirt track at the Indiana State Fairgrounds,…
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