The Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association (VSCDA) has traditionally defined “vintage” as out-of-date race cars prepared “as raced” in a period with a cut-off date of 1972. In recognition of the fact that vintage racing continues to evolve, VSCDA’s Board of Directors has voted to extend the club’s car eligibility date to 1989.
“We intend to preserve the purpose of VSCDA—to encourage the restoration, preservation and operation of vintage sports cars,” says Marvin Primack, VSCDA Board President. “But we also recognize that there are like-minded racers out there with younger cars that they want to preserve and race.”
Primack continued, “Thus, we are adding a discrete class we call G70+, which extends our cut-off date to 1989 while maintaining VSCDA’s philosophy of including vintage cars prepared safely and authentically to period spec and driven in the vintage spirit.”
The G70+ Class will include production-based and purpose-built race cars designed to race in series such as TransAm, IMSA, SCCA and CASC GT classes among others.
VSCDA’s initial class division is between Formula 70+ and Group 70+. Formula 70+ can be production sports, single seat open-wheeled and sports racing cars built to historic rules from between January 1, 1973, to December 31, 1989.

Group70+ is intended as a “point in time” class for production-based vehicles (GT and Sedan), whereby vehicles are prepared to a specific set of rules from 1973 or later (up to the last year of eligibility) as provided by the following organizing bodies: CASC, FIA, IMSA, NASCAR SVRA or SCCA. Vehicles must be prepared to one and ONLY ONE set of regulations and must comply in all respects to the chosen regulations, except where VSCDA preparation requirements take precedence.

VSCDA will accept cars that are prepared to “period correct” SVRA or FIA Historic Standards. In order to establish which set of eligibility standards were used in a car’s preparation, each competitor must fill in a “Vehicle Registration Form” and submit it to the VSCDA Eligibility Committee. Replica cars will be considered if they represent a faithful reproduction of the original. Modern performance upgrades will disqualify a replica from acceptance.

Car acceptance may vary for the two Road America events for which VSCDA provides only sanctioning—the Spring Vintage Weekend in May and the KIC in July. Please check directly with Road America for their eligibility requirements for these two races. For all other VSCDA events at GingerMan, Blackhawk, Grattan and ELVF, the updated policy as described above will apply. If you want more information on VSCDA’s new Car Eligibility Policy, please go to the VSCDA website at vscda.org or contact our Car Prep Steward, Doug Bruce, at: hdbruce@comcast.net.