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Autocross In Car from a rotary powered Sprite

February 21, 2010

Long time readers will recall the video we posted years ago of a 3 rotor Bugeye Sprite attacking an autocross course. I still go back and visit that clip often, as I just love to hear the wail of the wankel!
Today we have Jeff Kiesel in his Bugeye that has a turbo rotary that puts [...]

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Duck!

October 10, 2009

Another series of gems from Dad’s collection of old racing stuff. In this sequence of newspaper clippings, Bud and his MKII Sprite get caught up with Wilf Becker in a Bugeye at Harewood Acres. During the melee, Bud’s hood took flight. I’m not sure what the outcome of this was, whether either car continued on. [...]

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The Pink Lady, Donna May Mims passes

October 10, 2009

One of the pioneering women of racing, Donna Mae Mims has passed away as 82 years of age following a series of strokes. Mims became known as the Pink Lady, thanks to her penchant for driving pink race cars. No novelty act, the Pink Lady was one of the top amateur racers in America through [...]

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Stay away from that guy or he’ll hit you!

July 21, 2009

The past week has seen some pretty cool action here in The Garage. Thanks to an old post about my Dad’s early racing days, I was able to reunite him with one of his employees from way back in 1967. Terry Fitzgerald was also one of Bud’s strongest competitors that year. As racers do, they [...]

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Classic racing action through the eyes of Paul Chenard

May 11, 2009

If there are two cars that define the spirit of the sports car racing in the Sixties more than any others, they must be the Austin Healey Sprite and the Triumph Spitfire. It might even be safe to say that more racers got their starts in these fun and affordable cars than all of the [...]

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The Garage on Flickr: Lakeland Raceway

August 9, 2008

Lakeland Raceway was a drag strip and oval track in Florida that resourceful road racing enthusiasts turned into a road course with the help of access roads. The Garage regular Lou Galanos took this shot in the mid Seventies. It looks like the sports racer has just outbraked the Spridget. That era was known for [...]

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The first ever lap record of Mosport

June 21, 2008

For racing enthusiasts who live in Ontario, Mosport is an almost mythical place. It has seen the birth and heyday of series like the Trans Am and Can Am. It has played host to the Canadian Grand Prix. All of the great drivers from every decade from the Sixties onwards have driven at Mosport and [...]

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Get ready for some great racing at the 2008 VARAC Festival with Can-Am

February 23, 2008

While we’ve lost the Toronto Grand Prix for 2008, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t some great racing to be had in Ontario this year. Just up the road from downtown Toronto, at Canada’s home of motorsport, is the annual VARAC Vintage Racing Festival. The focus for 2008 is on the thundering Can Am cars [...]

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The car that started it all

December 22, 2007

Like so many other racing addicts, the fever was started with a Bugeye Sprite. In my case though, it wasn’t my own car but my father’s first race car a full 2 years before I was born. The seed was planted though and that propelled Bud on to race with some success over the next [...]

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Fawcett Movie Cars hit the block courtesy of RM Auctions

September 16, 2007

Like anything automotive, car auctions mean different things to different people. Some go to dream, others go to fulfill their dreams, some are looking for project ideas, while others are just looking to pass an afternoon. The RM Auctions Fawcett Movie Cars event had something for all of these enthusiasts. This event was quite literally [...]

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