PA Hillclimb

Google may be your friend (look towards the bottom of the list).

http://harveyslakell.com/Contact_Us.html

Don Kennedy

Tim, picture 28, TR250K, TR6 chassis,drivetrain, body designed by Pete Brock, only 1 in existance. Orange Car #34 definitely McLaren Can Am. Don't know which model or what size engine in that one. But the later/last ones had 500+ cu In aluminium Chevy engines. BTW,I was there Friday thru Sunday. Don...

Topton Hillclimb, last run 1970. Tower road, start just after the creek off Home Rd. Pits on the field on the left before the creek. Ran to just short of Woodside Ave. Doctors house was at the sharp left before Woodside.

Interesting. I remember the crash but not the name. He hit the wall by the pits. At that time I think we still were stopping and turning into the pits which is probably why he hit the brakes. I guess it was his first and only time on a hill.

Ron Mann wrote:nice input Dave!! Was he a PA driver? I don't have info on his hometown.

Bruno has/had a Porsche/Audi dealership somewhere in New York, New York city area I believe but definitely NY.

Problem with that link is it doesn't show enough detail. It doesn't even show Mertztown (try it).

Don't know how to do a link to the the map. Topton Hillclimb actually started closer to Mertztown than Topton. Use map quest (or something else) and go south of Mertztown. It ran on Tower road, start line was just after the intersection with Home Road (just after the creek) till just before Woodside...

Ron Mann wrote:#8 The Volvo. Craig Danks now owns and runs the old Flannery Volvo…it a moving piece of history!

Not any more. He sold it and told me the next time you'll see it will be at Goodwood!

Thanks for the information. The price of running hillclimb was one of the factors that attracted me to the PHA series from rally, which the cost of running a stage rally can run $1,000 just for an entry fee! Which is just ridiculous. :shock: I may give rally a go or road-racing after the PHA season...

You're right on both counts. I thought of Jack Strouses name about an hour ago. See, the brain still does work at this age, just a little slower (much more memory to scan and the processor is getting worn out).

Ran in the early 70s. From Cogan Station (north of Willimasport). Owned a pipeline company (installed cross contry pipeline). Ran Cobra(s) and brought 2 of them on a flat bed tractor trailer IIRC (or am I confusing that with the guy that had a trucking company with the slogan, "If you got it, a...

Hyner View, I've never heard of that one and I've been around the hills since 63 but really got involved heavily in 70. Was the hill at Hyner up above route 80? Where exactly. My grandfather was born in a logging camp in Hyner so I have some interest in the area. Thanks.

Now, where are we going to train people if not on a hill if as soon as they get on a hill they are only going to be overconfident? Or do we require everyone start with a slow car? That is what Rally America (who took over from SCCA) has done! And in your example if a 19 year old novice were to ever...

For those of you youngsters, there already was a Polish Pickle in the late 60's/early 70's running the hills. Ron Szurgots green TR3!

I was up the Friday before Christmas (ran a 1:53, in the rain, in my street car, on snow tires ). But seriously. alot of the guardrail in turn 5 at the apex is down or in very bad shape.

The mapquest way (which I suspect is the way Tim went) is the best for towing. I went that way last year and it wasn't bad (not towing though) 6 to 7 hours should do it. I'll be towing it for the rally this year. How do you guys figure $400 for gas? It's 350 miles one way at 10 mpg at $3.00 a gallon...

46 Chevy (before I was 16) with vacumn assisted shift (stick).

Matt Rowe wrote:But one thing they do differently than some of our events is the person in charge of workers actively calls and recruits workers.

How do you know if you'll have enough workers if you don't do that? Luck?

IPS, to follow up on the rally deaths thing, there were 4 deaths during that dark period of time period in US rally, 2 were inside a car racing, 2 were spectators struck by a car that was in the process of crashing, they werent out in the road. The SOA driver and navigator were killed in a huge imp...

A web site/forum with information on who to contact for information (for each event) and a form to sign up to work wouldn't hurt. When I was thinking of signing up to work Duryea I could find nothing on line so I said the heck with it. In this day and age it should be a prioroty IMHO.