Early 80's Ralts

[GRMatocha]

In '96 I bought an early 80's Ralt RT-4 Atlantic ('83) thinking monoposto would include it into the Vintage ranks once the 20 year mark (early 2000's) was crossed. Apparently, the ground effects prevented this from happening. Will this change in the forseeable future or will it be forever grouped with the historic F1, Indy and F5000 cars?

--- Gregg ---

[Charles Warner]

Greg,

I doubt Momoposto will ever include ground effects cars. Other groups allow them to run.

[promod]

newbe here--could u just put 1980 body pcs. on it ??? ie flat bottom side pods wings etc. ,,,i;m thinking the same way and running --cvar in texas if thats with in the rules went to eagles canyon cvar event last sat.this is where i want to be!!!!!! i got chance to drive 5 liter can am frisbee back in 1984 and got 3rd [podium] with over three quarters of the field finishing that day ,,,had no $$$$$ so never got to do it again ,,now i think can afford ,,never got over it want to buy atlantic - bda- ralt 1980 or march or???? any ideas or where could i look to find one thanks to all who would take the time,,man that was a blast--and met a lot of decent people,,is there any other groups that run vintage races close to tx. ??

[Charles Warner]

I have 3 early RT-4s for sale in various stages of dress. Drop me a message at fattogatto@msn.com. Putting flat bottoms on a car that is designed with tunnels is not a good idea. It has been done on the 1980/81 March atlantics without too much issue because their tunnels are just ramped pieces of alloy with no real thought put into their design. However, the Ralts were designed around active tunnels and I fear the handling would be compromised badly.

[Wes Allen]

So where would you race a RT-5 like the nice one for sale in the formula Atlantic classified section?

[Charles Warner]

SCCA or most of the vintage/historic groups.

[dereklola]

So where would you race a RT-5 ................

http://svra.com/SVRA/SVRAHome.nsf/we...C?OpenDocument

http://svra.com/SVRA/SVRAHome.nsf/attachmentweb/SVRA-8GQL2J/$file/FormulaHistoricrules.pdf?OpenElement (link failed, try copy/paste)

If there is sufficient interest (read entries) a separate SuperVee class would be added.

[bobmic]

So where would you race a RT-5 like the nice one for sale in the formula Atlantic classified section?

On the West coast VARA has several RT-5's that run and do very well.

www.vararacing.com