Anyone have a GT350 Vintage Racer? I have been running 6s2306 in open track events out west. She runs on 110 octane. I love the smell of race fuel.
Hey Jim, Do fake ones count? At Sebring, Fl; a vintage support race to the 12 Hours Of Sebring with 100,000 people watching. B)
Jim I've been running 5S274 since 1990,never made it to CA but have run PIR in AZ,Daytona,Mid Ohio,Watkins Glenn, Lime Rock .Pocono.Road Atlanta,Sebring, Texas World Speedway,Charlotte and MIS. I posted some pics on the photo part of this site. Take a look
Hey Balistk, I think we've raced together. HSR Daytona? I race with Gary Jones Motorsports. Doc J Atlanta
Sure! 6S1600 here.... Mostly open track in Texas and Oklahoma. 289 on Webers and pump gas. Pull 137mph down the front straight at Texas World Speedway. Hoosier Street TDs, 4 piston big K/H brakes, panhard bar and open exhaust of course!
Hi Shelbyguy and 95CobraR What tyres are you running and what wheels dimension with backspace? Thanks Jerry
6s438 - in the UK When this pic was taken it was running with a Webered 289, Gulf GT40 front discs and calipers, rosejointed suspension links (heim) and a Watts linkage. Tyres were Hoosier TDs. Colin
Although not a GT350, it´s still vintage racing. Here´s the start of second heat of Grand Prix Denmark 2007 in which we secured the seasons first classwin. As you can see on the rear quarterpanel the racing was pretty close.
I also race the ex. Henry Jones ( www.historicmustang.com ) Mustang fastback. Here it´s at the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix 2007 where I shared the car with race legend Jackie Oliver for the Pro/Am races
Please also write your rim size front and back and what wheels you are running on your racers that would be great! Maybe also what expirience you guys have made with maybe diffrent sorts of tyres! Thanks alot!!!! Bye Jerry (whos racer is in production )
Mustang notchbacks raced even before there were Mustangs for sale On a website called Ponysite.de there's a long story about Ford sending the first ten Mustang notchbacks over to Alan Mann in England to prepare them for rallying, maybe the Alpine Rally or Monte Carlo rally. They didn't win but did well for a new marque. Ford was inspired to do so by previous publicity successes with the Falcon Sprint, powered by a 260 cu. in. V8. Meanwhile the first Mustangs were still going out to showrooms in the U.S. where they were selling the car as a "secretary's favorite." So I think it's great that European vintage race organizers recognize the Mustang notchback as a race car in '64 1/2 without the car having to be a much more expensive Shelby two plus two fastback. I read about the Mustang notchbacks later career, as they went from one owner to another, still being raced long after being out from under Ford sponsorship, so they must have been well built. I think you can see one of the rally cars in the movie A Man and a Woman, as the plot revolves around a rally driver and his love life in Paris. But a better scene is the GT40 being tested at some banked racetrack (you thought I was going to talk about the goings-on in Paris, didn't you....)
This might be a dumb question, but I am going to ask it anyway......... Do you think there would be a Market for "NEW" (1965/1970) Vintage Mustang Race Cars Minus the Engine & Trans? I say minus the Engine & Trans because most Racers perfer to build their own. The Cars would be Coupes and Fastbacks only. All built, just install your Engine & Trans (plus needed parts to do so) and Drive off. David.
Somebody is doing the '67 I think It could be done. I think there's a market for those who missed buying the early Mustang that they wanted. Logistically, it's not that easy, there might be a few hundred parts just in the body panels and some were made with giant presses--that nobody has except huge automakers. But even if you solve the manufacturing the legal hurdles are daunting. The key thing would never be to represent them as a Shelby or put any Shelby like number plate on them. That would keep you from stepping on one land mine. The second would be to somehow title them as '65-'66 replacement bodies, that way you wouldn't have to update them to incorporate any new safety legislated items. It seems to me this ought to be legal, because one time when I was at Lotus I saw some chassis for Europas and Esprits and found out you could order an entire chassis, have it renumbered to fit your smashed car. And in America there's no law against completely rebodying your car. So in this case you could buy the title to a smashed Mustang (and maybe have to take the wreckage too) and then somehow apply to the DMV that you have replaced sections of the chassis unitized shell. But the problem with that is the FBI doesn't like anybody moving chassis numbers from one chassis to another so maybe this would get you into an even bigger frying pan. So even though selling an entire unitized shell might be the most appealing maybe the safest is to only sell replacement chunks, i.e. the front clip, the rear clip, the floor pan, the roof, and have shops that can put them together using the welding jig you supply. But that would still require the buyer to have a donor car to be putting said pieces on. Think of it the same way you remodel a house. In truth a lot of people are building an all new house but because the permit for that cost more than merely modifying an existing house they leave one wall or part of the roof standing so they can argue it's just remodeling.
Re: Somebody is doing the '67 I think Let me Clairify: These would be Mustang Vintage Race Cars (Rollers) not Shelby Clones. I would buy the Mustangs from the Classifides (with Titles) and convert them to Vintage Racers. The Cars would be built to Vintage Race Specs, suspinsion, Roll Cage, Rear End, Brakes, Wheels/Tires, Interior, Guages, etc. Just like the Cars seen in the Photos above, just no Motor or Trans. Turn-Key ready to Race will be an option though. Again, NOT Shelby Clones. David.
