<VV> Corvair weekend/ some Corvair/ some racing

[levair at aol.com]

It's a  bit much for and old Corvair guy, but that pretty much 
describes most of us.
Saturday Michael and I went  100 miles to the Mad Anthony Corvair car 
show in Fort Wayne IN.
      We were greated by "Fort Rain's" normal weather but also by at 
leat 41 car displayers.
  It was great to see old friends agian and compare stories and lies.
    Chilly rains shortened the show but cleared up nicely in the 
afternoon while we were inside for other activities.
I brought the '64 Roadster because I was headed 150 miles in the other 
direction Sunday for an Indy region autocross. It was the first time 
out for the little car this season. Most observers never even noticed 
the little car's 30" shortness.
    We had great meals with the Mad Anthony ladies preparing gourmet 
sandwiches at noon and Pizza in the afternoon.
     Michael Mckeal presented a well thought out tech session on 
carburetion (any of you young folks remember carburetors?) from theory 
to practical application.
    Later in the day Michael and I discussed how the recent (last week) 
Walter Mitty Vintage race Corvair invitation and performance was very 
good for the Corvair club in general with future Corvair  coverage in 
"Classic Motorsports". magazine. I also bored many with stories of the 
"skunk work" 1960 race vair.
    It was a great time, but I was already tired before going to the 
solo II race the next day.
     Getting Sharon up at 5:00 AM was the hardest part of the trip , but 
she wanted to go.
     The Terre Haute IN airport is the best concrete racing surface that 
I have ever seen--absolutley perfect. The local college group designed 
the course.
    We had about 140 entries and had to devide into 4 groups with 5 
runs. We pregridded the cars two heats before racing just like the pros 
at the Nationals. This helped stramline the event.
    The course was low to middle 2nd gear for me and I liked it all 
except the strange design at the first north west left hander which 
could have been a  delightfull sweeper---glad I brought the smaller car.
     The competition reminded me of the concurrent "bump" day at the 500 
track; the competition was that close.
     I finally won my  7 car EM class on the last run at just .7 sec. 
Second was a well driven and prepared  Datsun 240 Z with a LS1` 
Corvette engine. Most of the rest in D and E mod were various Lotus  7 
replicas.
    But the most interesting win for me was just barely beating the 
Honda S2000 powered, 1200# Lotus replica of Steve Brinkerhauf. This was 
because my son prepared that 7 to beat his daddy-how unfair is that? I 
had to watch the developent next door.
    This was such a popular event that many entrants came from other 
states after runing  on Saturday also. I got to see many of my friends 
that I had missed for over 5 years. It was a great Sunny, fun day.
    The only spoiler was persons who didn't show up for their work 
assignments and others had to cover for them. I'm sure that this 
affected the non effieient posting of times.
     After ward we had a wonderful friendly supper with our  racy 
friends at a great Mom and Pop diner in nearby Brazil.

       I haven't seen any official score postings, so the rest of you 
will have to tell your own stories,

Very tired but happy,

Warren