PA Hillclimb

Hey Rich, For the benefit of any beginning readers, what did you find in violation? Rollbars are simple but I can see someone messing up: wrong tube thickness/diameter, no crossbar, no seat brace, braces not welded high enough on the main hoop, etc. Good to see you at Duryea last weekend. Ugh! - I h...

Sounds like a hoot - very cool idea!

Probably not in the cards for me though, complicates the weekend a little too much for me.

Oh thats terrible. Ours is a safe sport, but accidents are a reality in the risk of daily life itself.

Maybe we can get a collection going at Duryea. For 'what' I am unqualified to say, maybe someone has an idea of something appropriate.

Matt - thanks for your past work with website administration. Fine job, sir.

Dale - kudos for volunteering to carry the torch.

when seat belts 1st started to be used in race cars many drivers avoided them, as most thought your chances were better bailing out. Without rollbars or effective helmets - take your pick. Favorite story, not sure if it is a 'fish tale' or not. I heard that Masten Gregory once stood up on the seat a...

Heyyy congrats Tom. Nice that you and the immaculate Sprite are finally getting well deserved respect!

Cool to know that PRDA is still alive and well!

Very cool, thanks for the link. And just in time; snowed in at work so this will give me something to do to pass the time.

Hi Tom,

Never even heard of Automobile Quarterly. Or heard about it and forgot. Have to check that out.

Leapin' Lizards do you mean Tommy Van Scoy of the Van Scoy Diamond Mines fame??

Haw haw, those hokie Van Scoy radio ads were a great running joke of ours in college...

I think it will be great getting cars back up the hill at Hershey even if it is a little exclusionary. I fear this is a dying sport and any event added anywhere helps offset the rate of attrition. And once established the trend will be to permit more classes or model years, not less. Heck, I'll bet ...

How the heck?? It looks like the car got dropped from a cargo plane to the right of the photo.

Belated congratulations - one of my best friends named her daughter 'Shelby!' So we should look forward to another competitor in about 16 years!

...Reading police later gave Jose a re-run after they realized that their cruiser passed him under caution...

I think its a cool idea. We can nitpick over how it is regulated but the jist of it is thus; Take a non-driver up the hill 'at spirited speed' as a passenger and show him/her the course from the business end. Lets face it, our sport is inherently dangerous and hillclimbing in particular has retained...

Apologies if someone already answered the Audi question but here goes (with no help from the Internet, BTW.)

Wanderer, Horch, DKW and I forget the last one? (It wasn't NSU was it? - I mean there were cars in the 60's still under the NSU brand name.)

Messerschmitt? Panzerkampfwagen?

Thanks Evil Steve! God Bless us, Everyone!

yeah, looks like there is pretty much only one 'line'

Not sure if this has been posted before (if it has been - then apologies) but I found this on the NEHA forum a couple weeks ago. Check out the photos from the Rumman Hillclimb in Jordan. Some bloke named Barkev Shadian was driving the Scirocco + placed 5th. talk about getting around - pretty cool st...

Great story Tom - the camaraderie and friendly competition is one of the best things about PHA events and participants.

Given enough PHA Alpha males in attendance - even the Brits aren't talented enough to make a car sufficiently unreliable to keep it out of the running! Booyeah!

Wow now that is fantastic - you lunatics!!

Miss Rose Valley (Steve?) looks like Frankenfurter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show!