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    Take over a fabulous website

    Okay racers !!!!! Still looking for avid, accomplished, wesbsite savvy racer to take over my website......step up!

    I created the website www.theKENTlives.com in 2007 using a simple website...
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    Take over theKENTlive.com

    I created the website www.theKENTlives.com in 2007 using a simple website creator and about 6 years later I had it upgraded by a professional. I consider it to be the premier website dedicated to the...
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    Travelling this week but will get back to you...

    Travelling this week but will get back to you when I return home. John M
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    Vintage Magazines

    I have a number of vintage magazines (some of which are themselves actually 'vintage' ! ) that would be much better sitting on your shelf than on mine....It is great to look back 40 to 50 years ago...
  5. Pro pro pro

    Wow ! We have a thread in the 'F1, INDYCAR, NASCAR' forum section.....all about $40-60,000 race cars and $5-7,000 weekends....over 230 posts.....and almost 12,000 views ! Pretty impressive.
  6. Right on

    Bill, I think your assessment is very accurate. I find a parallel in my own family. When I started out I bought a roller and spent the next four months and $5000 - evenings and weekends - doing a...
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    Hybrid Vee / FS question

    Out of curiosity: Could a newer ( FST ) engine be put into a "standard" Vee and race in the Vee race group outside the class rules - as an FS say? Is it technically possible? Is there any downside to...
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    Peter Egan in R&T

    There's an excellent article about Vintage FF1600 in the November issue of R&T by Peter Egan, one of our very best automotive writers. And here's Egan himself driving his recently restored Crossle 32...
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    300 HP?

    $300 HP? Good lord. What's the power to weight ratio? And if you pop the clutch and floor it, does the car move forward or just sit there carving out two 6" deep holes in the pavement?
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    Great Article!

    A great article and superb pictures as usual! Hats off to you. I was surprised to read that Cosworth expected the engine would consume six pints of oil during a race. Was that typical of engines of...
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    website and email NG

    Hello John Heckman, FYI your website www.frcca.com domain has expired and your email frcca@ptd.net is not working.
  12. Superb article !

    Curtis, what a superb article and the photos are stunning too. Hats off to you. I have always admired the BRP cars and as a fan of the great Masten Gregory it's great to read about the F1 cars he...
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    Race Car Info

    Chris, a couple of suggestions: your first source of information about "what you have" would be the seller. Talk to him and get the complete lowdown on what you now find in your garage! A second...
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    "Obsession"

    Rob, I don't know beans about MC engines or where you can find them, but I do have an answer to the question you posed which was:

    "Have you guys ever gotten so mentally consumed with something...
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