VSCCA.org - ŠAutoPhotos 2003, Ed Hyman

Vintage Sports Car Club of America, Inc.

March 12, 2003 TO: All Members
FROM: Bob Klingenburg-Activities Chairman-5 Wilcox Drive, Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046
Tel: (973) 334-7342, e-mail: bobklingenburg@hotmail.com

Cabin fever is undoubtedly running at all time highs with the winter we are having in the northeast this year. The solution is one easy-to-fill-out entry form away. During the weekend of May 3rd and 4th you will have the opportunity to yell "road trip", and head south to the warm and friendly hills of Southwestern Virginia, to participate in the VSCCA Governor's Cup Races. Virginia International Raceway (VIR) is a top-drawer facility in every respect. The track is fast and challenging, and the amenities are first rate.
There is no more pleasant and enjoyable place to go on the entire calendar. Enclosed with this mailing is the announcement for the event, which will provide you with all of the details to book your room, and plan your trip. To sign up for this event, please use a copy of the generic entry form that was provided in the last mailing. If you did not retain a copy of the entry form, it can be pulled off of either VSCCA website. If you have no access to the website, please call me, and I will immediately get you one.
If you have not yet been to this track, I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. Wouldn't it be great to try a new track? Wouldn't it be great to see if the skills you have accumulated in going around Big Bend a thousand times can be translated into fast times at a new venue? They probably can be. Call your friends and tell them you are going. They will want to come as well. This event is growing every year, and we would really like to fill the entire track with VSCCA cars this year. This track is so great, it reminds me of the saying: "if you build it, they will come". They've done a spectacular job of building it. Now you must come. You will not be disappointed.
It's also time to think about the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. Enclosed with this mailing is the announcement for that spectacular event, as well as an event entry form. Please use this specific entry form for this particular event rather than the generic one. The Pittsburgh announcement is slightly out of order, and comes ahead of a few other events that are actually ahead of it on the event calendar, because of the planning required for an event of this magnitude. So if you look on the calendar and think you must have misplaced the announcements for the Hunewell Hill Climb, our Lime Rock event with the Jaguar Club, the MT. Equinox Hill Climb, or the late June Berkshire Hills Rallye, be assured you did not. They will be out shortly, and you won't miss a thing.
This is the time to focus on one of the only true street races left in Vintage racing, Camden being the other. There are car shows. There are 100,000 spectators. There are the TV cameras shooting the course, and roving the paddock. There is the challenging road course. If all of that is not enough to convince you, remember it is for charity. Many many many years from now when you are reflecting on your life, and the truly amazing times you have had, I doubt you will remember the weekend you spent going to the local shopping mall, rather than participating in this show. Before you put down this piece of paper, pick up a pen.
Open the pen.
Take the entry form.
Write your name on the entry form. Continue until done. Please do it now, not later.
There is still time to make it to Pocono. In one day you will get as much track time as at most two or three day events. Take a copy of that generic entry form, that you have undoubtedly retained from the last mailing, and send it to Don Nattrass. If you don't have an entry form, you can get it off of the Web, or contact Don or me.
The week after Pocono is the Hershey Hill climb. Contact either me or Sandy Sadtler if you want to go, and have misplaced the particulars. A nice thing to do would be to offer your services as a corner worker for this event. You will have a great time, and be supporting a club that has supported us in this way at the Turkey Bowl.
The Camden street race is no longer listed as tentative. Keep your fingers crossed, and that weekend open on your calendar. All the major dignitaries required for an event like that are coming together in agreement.
You may have noticed that Castle Hill is no longer on the schedule this month. Unfortunately it is not a mistake. It may not be gone forever, but at least for this year. Event Chairman Tom Ellsworth, and all who had a hand in making that event the premier show that it was are to be congratulated. But keep this weekend open as well. There may be a substitution.
On a more mundane but important note, also included in this mailing are three documents pertaining to the proper procedures concerning log books, and the continued mental health of our log book coordinator, Ralph Steinberg, who is slowly being driven crazy by improper log book requests. Please take these documents to heart, as we like Ralph without that twitch he is starting to develop. The documents include a log book request form, a letter from the Car Classification Committee regarding VSCCA log books, and a sheet containing the most frequently asked questions about log books.
Of course there are no answers to those questions. They are posed merely to confound you. (Only kidding). Ralph asks that you try to give it your best effort to comply with the proper procedure, in as complete a way as possible, and that you fully exhaust the information contained in these documents prior to calling him for the real answers to these questions.
In closing, I would like to ask you to look carefully at the names of the event chairmen listed on the schedule. T hese are the people who spend countless hours of their time with not a cent of remuneration, so that we all have something really cool to do on most weekends during the fair weather. The next time you see one of them, or if you still have pen in hand after filling out the VIR and Pittsburgh entry forms, tell them how much you appreciate all of their efforts. Without them, we would not be doing a thing. Think how sad that would be.
Along the same lines, the next time you look at one of our two wonderful Websites, recall that they did not appear there magica lly by spontaneous combustion. These fountains of information and pictures are the result of thousands of hours of w ork by Fast Eddy Hyman, and Chris Shoemaker. If you like their sites, and how could you not, please remember to tell them so. They have done this for you, and their only thanks are the ones you express.

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