There has been lots of talk in The Garage lately about vintage racing. One thing hasn’t been mentioned though and that is the involvement of volunteers. Even back in those early days, without legions of enthusiastic helpers there would be no organized racing.

Here in Canada, those volunteers have been helping racers race since 1959 under the banner of Canadian Race Communications Association. They have worked races at Mosport, Harewood Acres, Green Acres, the Canadian Grand Prix and the Molson Indy/Champ car race in Toronto.

During that long history, there have been some pretty incredible people involved. Club officials would like to try to get as many of those people as possibly together for the 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2009. If you are one of those people, or know one, then contact CRCA though their site.

Via Inside Track

Even with the LA Auto Show on the go, I don’t see an awful lot in the feeds that is getting me excited tonight, so I thought we’d fire up the way back machine. The image above is from the September 69 edition of Canadian Track and Traffic. The AMX on the right is piloted by none other than the grand pappy of my kids, Bud tucker. The car was raced in A Sedan in Ontario and was wickedly fast, when the engine held together. As I was a bit over 2 years old then, you could say that my addiction to cars was beaten into me by this beast.

After the break, we’ve got more pics and a bit of a blogger surprise
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