When One CF is Not Enough
Rand has no idea of how to post on Apexspeed, but he feels that a few of you
might be interested in this shot of two Crossle 30F FF.
The red one we all know because he has been campaigning it since the last ice age, the blue one he bought back maybe 15 years ago, cheap. It came on that tilt bed trailer he used for years to haul his golf cart for FRP event weekends.
The blue one was green when he got it.
He rented it out a bunch, to the late Ian Prout, as well as Mike Alison, and he thinks maybe someone else.
Rand would run it as a CF before and after conversion of the red one to Fit power. The Fit ran as a FF, the then green one entered as CF. Double the pleasure on club race weekends at LRP when the regions put CF in with FV/500, and FF in wings&things.
Twice the practice, qualifying and racing for Mike.
Rand then sold it to Allison, who turned it blue and raced it some. Rand guesses Alison got tired
of the aggravation of racing anything and he sold it back to Rand.
Then Rand reassembled the car and sold it to Will Velkoff out of Long Island.
He ran it for some years until deciding he wanted:
A. a Honda and...
B. a more modern chassis.
Will then traded it plus cash to Dan Pyanowski for his VD/Fit .
Dan wanted to return to CF, so it was a good deal all around.
Just this past June, Dan and Mike had a fine 10 laps battling each other at Mid Ohio.
This picture was taken of the two 30Fs, both of which Rand has owned at some point.
One of them, the Blue one twice, the red one he has owned and raced continuously since 1999.
Eric Langbein did the Honda conversion on the Red car in 2011.
Exact years of various things could be discerned from the books of result
sheets Rand has kept pretty complete, starting 1992.
Rand only wishes he had such complete results starting at Marlboro at the Turkey Bowl in
1968 in a Lotus 20 FC car as well as his subsequent seasons of FB and FC and other cars up to '92 when he finally started keeping records.
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