PA Hillclimb

On behalf of the PHA membership, flowers will be sent to the church for the memorial service for Rich Shafer. Tom Knorr, PHA President PHA Members, The memorial service was held yesterday at Rich's church in Riverdale, GA under a bright autumn sky. Many members of the racing fraternity were there a...

Here is a link to information regarding Rich Shafer's memorial service and an address for condolences and donations:

http://ccrscca.proboards.com/index.cgi? ... hread=3335

I met Rich at my very first autocross (ever) in Atlanta in 1993. In those days he was still streeting an F-body car (think it was a Firebird). We have mutual friends in Jeff and Karen Duncan. I had a blast that day and never forget Rich's larger than lifesized enthusiasm for cars and racers. Around ...

Wow, great history with the steam cars - neat picture. It did occur to me that fuels are kind of a regulatory thing in the GCR

Still, if someone makes a competitive production car (whatever it runs on) the rules will have to accomodate it!

Is it spring yet ?

Reading the full road test of the TESLA electric sports car in this month's R&T got me wondering something. Does anyone have knowledge of non-gasoline cars competing in Pennsylvania hillclimbs? Steam, diesel, electric, CNG? Considering that your history goes back to the earliest automobiles, som...

Our newly recovered infomation on the 1956 Breakneck National includes some details of a "Morvette", that apparent creation of one Roger Wing - who wedged a late model Corvette engine into a Morris Minor. Looks like he ran in CM1. Does "Roger Wing" appear at Giant's Despair or ot...

A friend of ours sent us scans of the SCCA DC Region Straightpipe covering the 1956 Breakneck National Hillclimb. This article contains a lot of information that we did not have and some stories that we had not heard. For instance, this article tells us that Shelby stripped the gears on the ex-Ascar...

Would you happen to have any information regarding the Town Hill/ Breezewood event that took place approx 1959? I am told it ws on old Rt 26 near Town Hill but unsure which side of the mountain. It had apparently less than 20 entries. My original information source didn't come through... Mel, my su...

Rich…you are correct two fold!! This is in fact Howard Hanna in a Deutsch-Bonnet Panhard. Tom…you were close but ended up kinda cold with Dave Latsha (but keep him in mind later…he certainly drove some odd balls too!) Read more about Deutsch-Bonnets here: http://www.panhardusa.org/aboutpdb.phtml In...

Mel, I will ask our Cumerland guys. They say that there were other HC around Flintstone into the 60s that were locally sanctioned, I had not heard that they were on Town Hill - but I will ask.

Here is another interesting one! 1954 Giant's Despair, Lou Fageol ran this interesting Porsche based special in the C Modified class! Ron, the Fageol machine (?) also showed up at the Cumberland Nationals on May 16, 1954. Here is a photo of the car in action. It is not the best picture, but there i...

Has anyone ever heard of the "Ferro Special"? A fellow named William Ferro entered it in the 1955 Breakneck HC. A forerunner of our own George Bowland?

Link below:

http://www.cbenatls.com/breakneck_hillc ... ntries.pdf

Hi Gang! You may (or may not) recognize me as half of "Team Bergsteiger" from the 2007 Polish Mt. Hillclimb. Well, my half did not show up in 2008, but the other half (my brother) did and campaigned the car. I live in Atlanta and I just could not fold time and space this year to make it wo...