Historic Tour - Val de Vienne - GT Classic + Saloon Cars - 2021

 

1988 Renault Super 5 GT Turbo Maxi leads a 1992 Porsche 964 RSi.

An interesting field of  classic GT and saloon cars from the late sixties onwards were assembled for qualifying on Saturday morning at Val de Vienne during the Historic tour meeting in September.   These pictures were mainly taken from the spectator mound at the exit of the first turn.   I particularly enjoyed seeing sand hearing some big American muscle in the field.

The top 4 qualifiers are shown below:

Fastest Qualifier was this 1996 8 litre Dodge Viper RT10 driven by Julien Grent.

Second fastest was Vincent Delarche in this 1990 2 litre Cateram SuperSeven

This 1996 3.2 litre BMW M3 GTR Evo PTG driven by Sébastien Mathieu was third fastest.

The 1984 2.2 litre Audi Quattro of Fabrice Lefebvre was fourth fastest.

Other interesting cars taking part were:

This 2007 Ferrari F430 Challenge won the 200km of Val de Vienne later in the day.

1996 2 litre Lotus Elise

1969 5.7 litre Chevrolet Camaro.

1996 BMW M3 GTR 3.2 litre.

1980 BMW E21 2 litre.

1968 Alpine Renault A110 1,860cc.

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Camaro leads a BMW 2002 Ti.

Rassemblement de véhicules anciens Jouet sur l'Aubois 2019

Classic Cars with the old forge and factory providing the backdrop.

Yesterday, we were on our way to a cold beer in La Charité sur Loire, having visited the gardens at Château de Jussy, when we stumbled upon a Classic Car meeting in Jouet sur l'Aubois.   It was getting late so there were not too many people around and many of the cars had already left, but there were still some interesting cars left on show.  A very pleasant surprise that helped make my day!

1969 Ford Mustang.

Citroeën Traction Avant.

Simca Rallye 1000.

Citroën DS.

Triumph Vitesse.

Another Citroën Traction Avant.

Chevrolet Camaro.

Citroen Traction Avant Cabriolet.

Chevrolet Bel Air.

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Interesting old building in the town.

Opel Ascona in the car park.

From the Archives - 1980 AMOC Brands Hatch Historic Racing

Aston Martin vs Jaguar E-Type as the field exits Druids at Brands Hatch in 1980.

I think the photos in this blogpost were taken at the Sunday 11th May AMOC meeting at Brands Hatch.  Certainly the pictures were taken in May 1980 or before and certainly it is Brands Hatch.  Given the number of Aston Martins in the pictures it is safe to assume it is an Aston Martin Owners Club Meeting.   The pictures have been scanned from some rather contrasty Kodachrome slides.  The photos were taken on an Olympus OM10 SLR with 24, 50 and 100mm lenses.   The pictures haven't scanned that well but represent probably the best motor racing pictures I took up to that date.  From a distance of more than 38 years it is quite difficult to identify all the cars and drivers.   The meeting featured FIA Championship Historic Car races.  Certainly some quality cars and certainly some that I haven't seen much of recently.   Historic Racing, then as now, was a mixture of very authentic cars plus those rather less original and some more in the nature of copies or replicas.   Perhaps, there were more Ferraris racing regularly compared to today.

The well known JCB 1960 Ferrari Dino 246 F1

I think this must be Bobby Bell in his Lister Jaguar Knobbly.

Two Aston Martins battling it out into Druids.

The Geoffrey Marsh owned Aston Martin DBR4 overtakes an ERA on the blast up top Druids.

Aston Martin engined Lola T70 MkIII in the paddock.

Ferrari 330 GTO.  

Rear end of the 330 GTO

Pre-War Aston Martin at South Bank Bend.

Another Pre-War car taken from South Bank

ERA in the paddock.  Is this R2B Romulus?

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Chevrolet Camaro getting sideways at South Bank.

Laguna Seca Spring Classic 2018- SCCA GT & IMSA RS

Onew of the he oldest cars in the race was this 5.4 litre 1965 Chevrolet Corvette of Chris Springer.

The very first race of the 2018 Laguna Seca Spring Classic weekend was at 8.00am on the Saturday and featured GT cars and a few, what we Europeans would call, Touring cars.  it was great to be in the paddock at 7.30am and here these mostly V8 Chevrolet engined cars fire up.  The races weren't very close but it is always nice to see V8 Chevrolet engined beasties!    Most of the cars are featured in this post.   As with all my Spring Classic posts, all pictures were taken with a Panasonic Compact camera, which for the first race of the day seemed very strange to handle compared to my normal Canon DSLR..

The winner on Saturday morning was Jeffrey Abramson in this 1970 Chevrolet Camaro.

First lap at the Corkscrew with Mike Thurlow in his 1976 Chevrolet Corvette leading the chasing pack.   On Sunday he won both races.

On Saturday, Mike could only finish second.

The car to eventually finish third on Saturday was this 1966 Chevrolet Corvette.

Fourth placed 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray L88 driven by Tony Garmey.

This car was well know to Laguna Seca regulars.  It is a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette and has been in continuous ownership since 1970.  It is currently restored to its 1978 specification  when it held a lap record at Laguna Seca and won a Trans Am round at Portland.  Oringinally driven by Bob Matkovich, pictured, it was driven here by Richard Matkovich.  It finished fifth on Saturday.

Trevor Frank in his 1971 Porsche 914-4.

Early on at the Corkscrew and Robert Davis leads a group in his 1.2 litre 1972 Mazda RX-3.

The 1982 Mercury Capri Coupe of Les Werling.

The 1969 Chevrolet Covette of Eve Mincheff.

The 7.0 litre 1965 Chevrolet Corvette of AC D'Augustine.

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