PA Hillclimb

Funny, I thought it was Giants' Despair right before a course check...coulda swore I saw Suzie's Jaguar!

The "Sightseeing Car" was going into Dickerson?

I think this is used by The History Channel as stock fill-in for "early 20th century New York City "effect...

I'd like to see timers at a couple of locations for the crowd. Especially if it's possible to have the car number and time. That would be great for them. I don't know what that would cost or where to look but it's certainly a cool idea. If nothing else, the car number added would help tremendously ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffco-pmd ... ature=fvwp

A couple great saves from a Youtube video from Giants' Despair. (Year unknown...)

I got the sad news last night from Jen...I will always remember Joe as a fierce competitor but also as the ultimate raconteur. Told funny stories too. Scot Hess and I used to tease him when he ran the Dodge Omni 4 door that it looked like a Little Caesar's pizza delivery car...so much so that we'd y...

mrevilracing wrote:Or, just eat a little and drink til you are just plain silly!

With this gang that doesn't take very long...

Wonder if he had ear protection.

Sue Salsburg wrote:My SSC Mini is a GCR classed car. It's a pure street car, driven to work every day. No way I can put a bar in that.

I thought the bar was in the trailer...the best stocked one in PHA!

I found a picture of my Rabbit as run in the driver school in GT3. :shock: http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr304/daveygti/gt3atsummit-1.jpg Look, you can see the tech sticker on the headlight . Dave Y. Have SCCA GCR rules changed that much? Back in the day SS cars could have the lights taped but...

I believe what you are proposing existed in the past and was known as the "contest board".

The Board also had four committees (I'm quoting from the 1972 rulebook):

License
Safety
Sedan
Modified and Formula

Yeah, I liked reading about the Targa too, but then again it was 4 to 5 page ad for Millen's company and it helped R&T sell a few magazines in this internet crazy world. Plus, I am not too sure that the Targa people enjoyed having its handicap system trashed thru out the article. As much as we ...

Folks: One of my (and I'm sure, many of yours) great personal friends has passed. Via Ron Mann: Raymond K. "Ray" Heisey, Sr., 79, of Hershey passed away Monday, November 23, 2009 in his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born October 11, 1930 in Hershey, a son of the late Raymond...

Rich Sweigart wrote:It is too bad that we do not have a Targa PHA rally event. We could transit from hill to hill and run up the hill for time. RIch

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think you might be on to something...

I would be more than happy to help plan the route. Take one map of Schuylkill County...

Don't forget Jefferson (the hill, not the Summit Point subdivision), a few miles east of Pine Grove off 895!

Goldmine? I guess that's a hillclimb? More correctly, was. Run in the mid-'70s, Goldmine road runs from Tower City to SR 443. The hill 's start line was approx 1 mi N of the junction with 443 and ran to the top of the ridge. It was unique in that the pits/paddock were in the MIDDLE of the course!

The Gold Mine Hillclimb (run in the mid-'70s) road had grown center-line rumble grooves by the time I went back and took pictures approx 5 yrs ago. IIRC it is the only "lost hillclimb" road that this has happened to, which of course prevents it from ever being resurrected. I don't know the...

Ever since I began racing in 1952 with a $20 stock car That's got to be a typo -what were you, 3 years old? If you're really that old, I want to buy a truck load of whatever vitamins, drugs, health food or magic you're using! Come on, share your secrets with us over the hill racers. Sue Could be wo...

To be proactive: I don't remember seeing this in supplementary regulations recently, but back in the day there was an occasional event where we were told "no open exhaust cars before..." a certain time, say, 8 AM. For all I know it's still in effect. However: Might we post a sign or two ar...

Apparently one of the articles described her as an "eccentric" racing champion... July 1, 1927 - Oct. 6, 2009 Friday, October 09, 2009 By Ray Fittipaldo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Donna Mae Mims, an eccentric champion race car driver who was portrayed in the Hollywood movie "The Cannonb...

In 1975 Don invited me to co-drive his R8. In those days we ran in strict class order and I got first run at the late lamented Red Rock Hillclimb. It was raining at the time and I hit a runoff while setting up for a right hand turn and plowed into the bank. Popped the windshield out and pushed the L...

Having been around since 1972, I've been there, done that with noise control. I remember sitting in a BMW(1974) at Giants' start line behind Jake Krone 's Mazda RX-2. You could see a literal wave of people falling back from the fence holding their ears as Jake went up the hill. Oscar Kovaleski asser...