2012 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

[Steve Holmes]

Several Roaring Season members are attending the 2012 Monterey Motorsports Reunion this weekend (I wish I was one of them!), and one or two are even racing! This year, the event is celebrating, among other things, the 50th anniversary of the Shelby Cobra. One of our members, Dale Mathers, emailed me some photos from the event, with several more to follow. Enjoy!

Here are some of the Historic Trans-Am cars.

#92 Rusty Jowett Camaro

#23 Duane Winkel Camro

#7 I believe is Buzz Dyer Javelin, which I think is originally the Ted Roberts car. I need to double check, but I thought Buzz has owned this car since it was nearly new.

[Steve Holmes]

1972 (I think?) Penske Javelin raced by Roy Woods Racing

1970 Autodynamics/Sam Posey Challenger

1969 Smokey Yunick Boss Mustang

[kiwi285]

Here is the Laguna Seca website with most of the results from the weekend. The TransAm cars are Group 9A. Group 3A is the Cobra race and I think they had 41 Cobra racing. Simply mind blowing.

Hopefully Dale can talk a couple of these people to bring their cars to NZ in January.

http://www.laguna-seca.com/race-results/race-results-rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion

[kiwi285]

Steve,

Who was racing up there ??

[Steve Holmes]

Mike, just off the top of my head and without looking through all the results, Chad Raynal and Tony Garmey are racing. Chad is racing his '69 Camaro in Historic Trans-Am, and Tony is racing a Ferrari 250GT Fantuzzi in the 1955-62 GT group.

[Bruce302]

Mike, just off the top of my head and without looking through all the results, Chad Raynal and Tony Garmey are racing. Chad is racing his '69 Camaro in Historic Trans-Am, and Tony is racing a Ferrari 250GT Fantuzzi in the 1955-62 GT group.

Chad Raynal came second in the Saturday Historic Trans Am race, gave a talk on trick factory race parts, and was also awarded the Roy Wood Memorial Trophy.

I'm sure many of the racers would like to come down for the festival. Having sufficent notice is always an issue

Bruce.

[Kiwiboss]

Im having trouble Bruce, they're hard to lever out of their day to day life over here but at this stage Chad(vehicle not established yet) Richard with the Jowett Camaro and Tony Hart with the Alan Green Camaro are the most likely, and because of Roger Williams association with Lance smith, him and his wife Carol plan to visit as well, i have others in the wind but its not likely for 2013 but i know if these guys come it will pave the way for others in the future!! Also we gotta remember its a little step back for them especially after this event at Monterey this weekend, they had 38 TA cars in their own race, the Cobra race was simply amazing with 49 Cobras, know that was a sight to behold.

Dale M

[Steve Holmes]

Here are some official photos from the event, courtesy of Rolex/Stephan Cooper:

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#3 Chevy Nascar is ex-Dale Earnhardt

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RAJO Ford, sporting famous Joe Jagersburger RAJO Model T head

Model T special, and National 40

Model T special

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Fibrefab Stingray

Aussie John Bowe qualified fastest in the 1963 - 66 GT group, but was forced to start off the back of the grid in Race 1 due to an inlet manifold irregularity. He finished Race 1 in 3rd, and Race 2 in 2nd.

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Model T special

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Daytona Cobra Coupe designer Pete Brock

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