This was the weekend of The Vintage Grand Prix at Watkin's Glen. Another fantastic event with well over 400 entries. Anyone interested in seeing some pictures, they can be found on my Fotki site at; http://public.fotki.com/colin1944/watkins-glen-vintag/ I will be posting more in the next few days.
All was not without drama and disappointment. Ian was to join us on the Thursday and his car blew a water pump on Wednesday (drama).
We took my BMW down so Ian was able to go to the house and get the SUV. He made it down
without incident late Thursday evening. I had arranged for Ian to do the Friday night re-enactment race in a friends Lola T70 (the one in the picture), but during Fridays practice, it broke a distributor drive (disappointment). Somehow they were able to scrounge a new distributor and Ian was on for some laps around the track on Sunday (hurrah), but alas, the passenger seat was only there as a token gesture to meet the sports car rules of the day, and poor Ian just would not fit. Actually, I think the seat was made for a vertically challenged ten year old (disappointment all over again). All was not lost as Ian did get to do some laps in the Pace Car, such as it was. He gained a completely different perspective of the track and was very pleased for the opportunity.Once again we were "fogged" out on the Saturday and the days events were cut short by two
races. Sunday dawned somewhat brighter and we just picked up the schedule from Sunday morning and scrubbed the missed races from Saturday. Friend, David Dartt was there in my ex Mini and performed admirably. David finished 4th overall and 2nd in class in the hotly contested Group 1 category. David is one hell of a good driver.We stayed over Sunday night and had a very pleasant breakfast with friends Bob and Bill (sounds like a comedy team). Later in the morning we headed up to Hammondsport to the Glen Curtiss Museum. I had been there once before (remember the GT40 episode?) but Linda had not. After a few hours there we went to the Snug Harbor (Americans don't spell properly) Restaurant and had a fabulous lunch. By 3:00pm we were on our way home.
Oh, did I mention I also picked up a whole bunch of parts for the 'Banana'; fuel cell, fire suppression system, Koni shocks, Girling master cylinders, parking light assemblies and misc. other goodies.
