PA Hillclimb

As Rich stated, this class was so big, in PHA it was split into three groups back in the day: Porsche, TR3 & MGB......since it was one of the biggest classes I'm going to run top 10 here! 1958 - present time.

So how do we score it? Three first places per event in the old days?
Don

George Frey Porsche 356
Jess Holhouser Porsche 356

yup...I counted all three (or two sometimes) E Classes....EP was not the only class to be split. On certain occasions...FP, GP, DP and even BP were split into two. E was the only one to split 3 ways.

I don't have results sheets before 1968, there is a gap in the late 1970's up to 1985 and when we get up past 2000 I didn't print everything since it was on line. It was tabulated by hand. It should go something like this:Jim Seiple, David Miller, Gary Sullivan,
Walter Urban, Dick Sweigert, Jim Sariano, Dick Gardner, Fred Heistand, Vince Hock, Paul Sweigert, and Lloyd Geib. I had a total of fifty different class winners. I show Lloyd winning his class 29 times. Much of the time he was running against extremely stiff competition and he was occasionally fastest of all the EP cars.
Don

You hit out some of the heavies for sure....one on your list that just missed my #10 spot.

About '63 there was a gent named Gale Patton who campaigned a Porsche Speedster successfully. Also maybe in E prod was a Morgan +4 (The Torking Dog) driven by Harry Reynolds. That was waayy back.

let's crank this up....starting with a three way tie with at least 10 class wins, we'll start with Gary Sullivan

Tied with Gary...George Frey. As a side note...and you'll see this in the FTD thread...George was fastest overall at Fleetwood & Spring Hershey 1967!!

1967 Weatherly

and the third...Ken Slagle

Photo...1969 Topton Hill Climb

Two way tie for #9....first up Jim Sariano, past PHA President!

Thanks, Ron. I take a few days off the forums to do some real work or try to do real work and you hit me with EP.

Tuesday, Foreman gets F550 stuck in mud. Foreman tries to pull F550 out of mud with chain tied off to the tie rod. Foreman wonders why the right wheel is turning right and left wheel is turning left after tie rod breaks in half. Sometimes, you just can not teach STUPID!
Hopefully, I have the right numbers this weekend for either Mega or Powerball.

Ep was a great class with some the best drivers. To finish, first in EP was a remarkable feat on any given hillclimb Saturday or Sunday.
I had fun, growing up and watching all of this with my parents in the middle.

Rich

I was worrying about you!!

Tied with Mr. Sariano....Dick Gardner driving the "odd ball in the class" Alfa Duetto

At #8 Dave Miller with at least 14

At #7...Henry Hemmen!

We have a tie at #6.........with at least 18 EP wins. Fred Heistand and that very same Alfa Duetto. You've probably noticed that Fred was very succesful in mutiple classes over his hill climbing career.

photo...the hump prior to the entrance to turn 3 Hershey

How Ironic is it that at #5 is Richard Sweigart Sr.?? PHA license #5, racing #5.......awesome!

at least 20 EP class wins!

Just ahead, in the fourth slot...Jim Seiple

Yeah, that was awesome with a $500 car.

Rich