Me racing a Mk 1 "Bugeye" Sprite at New Egypt Speedway (in NJ) almost 60 years ago. The Sprite is green with a yellow stripe, I painted it with a brush!
A Mk 1 Sprite. "Frogeye" or "Bugeye". Lovely. And yes, they are *small*.
This was the first version of the Spridget (Sprite & Midget)
I first raced one of these almost 60 years ago (see photo). Still racing a Midget now.
This time of year, weather in the eastern USA can be unpredictable.
Two days ago, I had the air-conditioning on in the car and this morning it's 20F (-7C)
We had frost on our windows....literally.😘
Beatles on AM! Alright! 👍
(my '69 MGB has an AM-only radio)
My first question was: who brings a chainsaw" to a car race?
We invited a friend and his father. They actually saw the whole thing play out. Both were pretty shaken up and left right after all this.
I know we've all seen assholes doing burnouts as they leave a car show.....but this was the craziest thing I've ever seen at a car event.
Yep. $100k+ cars and not $5 worth of sense.
Yes.
"Angry guy with a chainsaw" sounds a bit TOO exciting!
I think your money would be safe!
I like sports cars, but I really do try to understand other type of motor enthusiasts. If someone likes brass-era cars, or lowriders or tractor pulling or whatever, I say "have fun".
But there seemed to be a lot of "look-at-me!" types in this other group.
...Then chainsaw freak broke rear window of the guy’s Mustang. Causing 12 cop cars to arrive. Some cops with semi-auto rifles. Paddock was jammed for an hour. Their group seemed to enjoy all this. Eventually normalcy returned.
The other group was like a weird group of poseur-ish “car enthusiasts”
Alongside our genteel vintage event was a separate event called “RaceMotive” involving 1/3 mile rolling drag racing. Lots of showy behavior & unnecessary revving of engines. Lots of Audi A10s, Lambos, Supras.
2 guys got in a fistfight. 1 guy got a chainsaw & chased & cut the other guy......
4 vintage race cars practicing at Pocono South circuit. My green MG Midget is 2nd in line behind red MGB. 3rd car is BMW 2002 with a Datsun Z at the end
Vintage cars practicing at Pocono Speedway South circuit. In order: white Dodge Neon, blue MG Midget, white BMW 2002 & red Datsun Z
Green 1293 Spitfire at Pocono. This was one of my race students running this 1-day event so that I could sing him off to enter our longer 2 & 3 day events. Nice guy but car has teething problems
Tan Porsche 912 and red Daimler SP 250 lining up on grid at Pocono Raceway South before a practice session
I’m back from my Test&Tune event @ Pocono. More “test” than tune. My gearbox seized. Glad in a way because I have a 6 day event coming up. Better to fail now. These 'boxes rarely fail catastrophically. Odd. This week engine/gearbox comes out (I have a spare ‘box).
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My 2-car garage today
I race with this blue X1/9 all the time. Fastest car in our small-bore group (great driver too.
It's impossible to catch him unless he's stuck in traffic (that's my green Midget back behind him in the first photo)
[Thnx to Dom M and Tom M for photos]
“Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.”
— Edwin Land, the Polaroid guy.....(but I first heard it from Bolus & Snopes Racing Team)
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This will be my first time back at Pocono in 17 years (last time I was there with NASA & my old Escort GT)
Not my favorite place, but it's a short tow.
These days I spend most of my time at Lime Rock, Summit Point, Watkins Glen, Thompson & NJMP
Pocono Speedway. Yellow is South/East road infield road course.
My 1st vintage/historic event of '26 is Saturday. Just a test & tune @ Pocono S/E
But I'll be on-track doing some wheel-to-wheel dicing with other small bore cars so it will feel just like a race
Taking the Midget. It's got fresh oil+ filter, new tires, new brakes
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Auto Union 1000 & old Thunderbird
NSU 1000 & Corvair
Ford Fusion and Aston-Martin DB9
Audi TT & Peugeot RCZ
Cars that look like other cars
1-Auto Union 1000 & old Thunderbird
2-NSU 1000 & Corvair
3-Ford Fusion and Aston-Martin DB9
4-Audi TT & Peugeot RCZ
I know there's lots of Chinese cars that are copycats...plenty of others too.
SCCA FP race MX-5/Miata.
Seen at Summit Point last Fall.
Seemed to run well and came with some spares.
$8000 USD or best. I'm sure it's sold by now.
In the US (and I think Canada) these were badged as "Renault Caravelle".
I never noticed the P1800 hints but I agree...these have some of that Volvo look.
Pretty little car but I think these had very modest performance.
We have a local place that is sort of a fake Ace Cafe....but the quality of cars at the real Ace (according to the photos I see) is amazing.
Our local place is called the Sunday Motor Co.
sundaymotorco.com/pages/cafe
I lived in Camden Town in London with my parents....in the '50s 😜
Billy Joel (left) with one of his Moto Guzzi motorcycles in Long Island
Bruce Springsteen on his Moto Guzzi cruiser at the New Jersey Shore
Nice bike! And time well spent!
The big Guzzi enthusiast in our area is Billy Joel. He has a shop/museum/cafe with a large collection of his personal Moto Guzzis. It's a meeting spot similar to the Ace Cafe. His shop also built a Guzzi for Springsteen
I've never been to The Ace Cafe, but it's been on my bucket-list. I tried to work it in on our last Goodwood trip but no luck.
I do follow the Cafe (on FB) & I notice they had a Smart Car meet last weekend. Fun!
Credit: Damien Jennings Photography
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Ahh...neat! Thanks!
Local MG/Austin Healey/Triumph repair show. Various MGs
Various MGs at local repair shop near my house
My green 1970 MG Midget at local repair shop
Various MGs
Took the Midget out & did a photo shoot at my local MG/British car shop (it was closed).
Gas gauge is wonky so first I filled it. Took 4.2 gallons (tank capacity is 7 gal).
Shop is in a high rent area, but the business seems to be OK
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Nice.
With the lighting, it's a bit hard to discern the color. What color would you describe it as?
Here's my Snowberry White '69 MGB
Great news!
I guess the US is blockading a blockade.
Have I got that right?
This Vitesse occasionally races with us in our historic events here in the northeast USA.
It runs a 2.5 L six with 5 speed box. It's fast. 👍
It was originally built and campaigned by Triumph-guru Kas Kastner in the 1970s
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