Sentences with phrase «vintage race car»

«Restoring Acania was a project much like restoring a vintage race car,» says Olson, adding that his interest in preservation of significant items makes him think he might have been reincarnated from the 1930s.

The handmade aluminum hood and one - off grille provide a visual cue that compliments the Coupe's vintage race car styling.

He's a coach, quarterback, chief mechanic, psychologist, cheerleader, administrator, guidance counselor, car restorer and vintage race car driver.

Yet, you won't want to play a single Deep Purple track as you'll either be stuck starring at the vintage race car good looks, or smoking every 911 and Corvette you come across as you rail the GT350CR everywhere you go.

No, we didn't mess up and post a vintage race car from the 1970s by accident.

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On the weekend, they hook up trailers with their sand rails or vintage racing cars and head for the action.

His history includes building hot rods for rock stars (with multiple vehicles for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons), restorations of iconic hot rods (including the Doane Spencer roadster), and vintage race cars, such as Alex Xydias» So - Cal Speed Shop belly - tank racer from the January 1949 cover of HOT ROD.

If you've a hankering for a stable of vintage race cars, look no further than the Jim Click collection.

They're typically historic or vintage race cars, though occasionally last year's F1 car will turn up for a while.

For a dedicated Riley man like my friend Tim Ely, the forthcoming 2014 Le Mans Classic for vintage race cars would be pretty special, and surely, I figured, we should do it up proper.

In preparation for the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, BMW revealed it's dusting off two vintage race cars for use in the popular event.

The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, or SVRA was founded over 20 years ago with the vision of keeping vintage race cars on race tracks where they belong.

The sharply styled steel skin is fastened to a steel ladder frame, which is much stronger and lighter than frames of yore, but ultimately shares its design with vintage race cars.

The Goodwood Revival is a yearly celebration of vintage race cars that takes place again this weekend.

Vintage race cars and Historic Motorcycle Exhibitions will take place on the 11 - turn, 2.238 - mile road course during all three days of the event.

At Lime Rock Park's Labor Day weekend Historic Festival, more than 250 authentic vintage race cars are «driven in anger» throughout 10 racing classes over a total of three days.

Not exact matches

A vintage - car race served up many of the sport's best surviving drivers as happy participants.

Both the main leads are always clad in desert colour outfits which all seems to have stemmed from Indiana Jones, there is the all too common vintage car racing through the desert whilst been shot at sequence, Cruz is completely pointless throughout, it tries to be funny but fails and the ending is a rip roaring anti-climax.

Daniel Day - Lewis was photographed in Brescia, Italy today for Mille Miglia, the iconic vintage cars road race through Italy — 1000 miles in 3 days ending in Rome.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

That car is now owned and vintage - raced enthusiastically by Scott Hughes.

I drove that car to Road America for a vintage race later that year.

«What's unique about Bill is that he has a foot in two worlds, the racing world and the vintage - car world,» Schultz says.

Lea - Francis Hyper — The Editor investigates this underrated Meadows - powered Vintage sports car and drives a particularly original example / Auto - biography: Annabel Jones — Matthew Bell visits VSCC stalwart and supernavigator Annabel Jones and learns about some of her motoring adventures / Belgian Speed Hunters — Nick Jonckheere looks at some Land Speed Record pioneers, focussing on the early attempts to break the 100km / h and 100mph barriers / Goodwood Festival of Speed — David Venables reports from Lord March's annual gathering of the world's rarest sports and racing cars.

Colin Peck presents the results of his researches into the genre / The Ballot 2LS, part six — Our Publisher continues his review of this landmark Vintage car by describing the example once owned by Ian Connell and now in George Wingard's collection in Eugene, Oregon / Auto - biography: Brian Sewell — In the latest instalment of his series interviewing personalities from the old - car world, Matthew Bell visits art critic Brian Sewell / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part one — In the first of a three - part series recounting the long careers of these famous racing cars, Simon Moore describes their origins and works competition histories / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, to inspect a rare and recently restored 1914 Briton 10/12

Australian motor museum — Peter May finds one where the Avon runs through Yorkshire / Churchill's Daimler — The just restored Daimler that Winston Churchill used in the early 30's / Howard's Way — We visit the London premises of C.A.R. Howars vintage car dealer / VSCC Lakeland trial — Tom Threlfall has been mud - plugging in the Lake District / Circuit des Remparts — Toby Ross reports on a race around the old walled town of Angouleme / Down - under London to Brighton.

Plastic Explosive — David Hawtin drives an unspoilt example of one of the first post-war British GT cars — Jensen's handsome all - glassfibre 541 / Jenks — The Last Word For Bill Boddy memories of the little man just keep flooding back... / Barn Fresh — An astonishingly original 1914 Model T Ford provides Douglas Blain with unexpected food for thought / Racing Stars — Bill Boddy fills in some further detail in a learned postscript to Edward Eves's recent history / MG TF Exposed — The second in our exclusive James Allington cutaways this time of the last of the Abingdon «square riggers» / Nearly Great Marque authority — Ian Dussek tells the story of HRG one of the great British might - have - beens / Economy Class — The Editor is charmed in spite of himself by a late - vintage Rover saloon / The Gamy Mystery — The golden years of automobile art described by Jonathon Wood.

War Horse Vauxhall — David Burgess-Wise examines the rôle played by the Vauxhall D - Type in the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappeared

In Initial impact, Simon Charlesworth tells the story of a rare survivor of this important Vintage tourer / / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell meets graphic designer, historic racer and lover of Americana Julian Balme to discuss his life behind the wheel / / The first saloon to use the legendary XK engine, Jaguar's Mk VII was a 100mph luxury car just as happy winning touring car races as cruising the home counties.

There's also an eclectic mix of race cars and vintage sheetmetal, and since it's at the Jet Center, there are some sweet planes thrown in for good measure.

With photographs by John Edwards - Winser / Miss Buttercup — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the best known of Citroën's Vintage models, the 5CV Cloverleaf, and describes a recent immaculate restoration / From Austin Seven to Delahaye 135 — In this second instalment of Dan Margulies's competition reminiscences, as related to the Editor, the story is told of Dan's early interest in cars and his formative racing career / Spanish - Swiss Supercar — The Editor investigates whether the Hispano - Suiza Alfonso is a worthy contender for the description «supercar»

Brian Purves / Cars — and Penny Farthings — at Oulton Park: Tom Threfall reports on the VSCC two - day race meeting / Vintage racing at Silverstone — News and pictures from the VSCC's meeting / Part I of our Special Restoration Guide / Shh!

Karl Ludvigsen continues the engineer's story / Coeur Du Lion — The petite Peugeot 293 is over / Poisoned Arrows — Brooks Brierley describes how Pierce Arrow took Studebaker down the road to ruin / Vintage Montlhery — Douglas Blain enjoys a thrilling weekend at the famous French race track / The Turn Of The Screw — Michael Worthington - Williams puts a final spin on propellor driven cars.

The Monterey Historic Automobile Races are the premier vintage car races in the United StRaces are the premier vintage car races in the United Straces in the United States.

Block is no stranger to turning vintage cars into incredible racing machines.

In an era when just about every important historic race car already seems to have been discovered, race car transporters are emerging as the Next Big Thing in high - end vintage motorsports.

At that time, the 16 was fast and fragile, but since then, the car has come into its own, running sprint races on tighter tracks in vintage events.

This ERA is thus the fastest prewar car in vintage racing.

Through it all, cars remained a critical part of their lives; after earning competition licenses at the Skip Barber Racing School, they began vintage racing at road courses with a Lotus Eleven and a Ferrari 512 Racing School, they began vintage racing at road courses with a Lotus Eleven and a Ferrari 512 racing at road courses with a Lotus Eleven and a Ferrari 512 BB LM.

Today, vintage two - point Simpson racing belts are the only indication that this 356 was once a gutted race car.

Surprising no one more than myself, I signed up to get a Vintage Sports Car Club of America (VSCCA) racing license the other week.

These plain and simple rules reflect not just tradition and vintage Yankee thrift but also the VSCCA's world view, which is more about having fun keeping old race cars running than any desire to operate a highly competitive corner of motorsports.

And though there are some participants who want to press harder and some who do, I learned that the club's comparative paucity of maximum testosterone has led some to defect from the VSCCA to competing sanctioning bodies such as the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association or the Vintage Racing League or even the more well - known Sports Car Club of America.

The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum has some 1200 motorcycles as well as a collection of racing cars.

1903 Brightmore Steam Lurry — Exploded diagram of the mechanism / Four inches of History — A.B. Demaus relates how the 1908 TT race was a particularly significant event / 1930 Double Six Low Chassis Daimler — Michael Brisby conducts a remarkable Daimler / Waldron's Wayfarer — Michael Worthington - WIlliams tells this remarkable survival story / Overhauling a Clerget Rotary engine «The music goes round and round...» by A.F.Carlisle / Austin Ruby Restoration — Bryan Purves recalls that the Ruby has been with us fifty years and tells how he restored his example / Ardingly 1984 — The 15th Historic Vehicles Spectacular / Shelsley Walsh — News of the final event of the Vintage Sports Car Club / On Making a Crankshaft — Charles Howard has broken a crank but how do you make a new one.

As we watched real race cars battle it out around the vintage airfield in Florida, we passed around and talked about the toy versions.

* Rare right hand drive Australian Ford Falcon * Kotzur Racing Cleveland V - 8 Engine 540hp * Tremec TKO 600 Manual 5 - Speed Transmission * Amazing build on this 2016 SEMA SHOW Car * Aluminum Heads * Trick Flow Intake * 4» Eagle Crank * COMP 224/224 -.050 Cam * Edelbrock ProFlo EFI System * Centerforce Clutch * Pacemake Headers * 3» MagnaFlow Mufflers * Ford 9» Rear End 31 Spline Axles * 4.11:1 Gears * RRS Three - Link Suspension * RRS Sway Bar and Tower Brace * RRS 12inch Rotors and 2 Piston Calipers * VX3C Forgeline Wheels * 35 Gallion Fuel Tank * Vintage Air Conditioning

Looking at historical race photos, it's apparent that vintage race transport trucks were almost cooler than the race cars they carried.

An old Benz sedan makes a perfect car for vintage rallies; they're durable and look great when slightly lowered and race equipment is added.