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The Sage Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:04 pm

The Great Race is a very technical road rally with nothing but vintage cars. This year two college students will be running a 66 Square. Details to follow...

http://www.greatrace.com/great-race-2012/2012-entrants-list


chaosisme Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:31 pm

Thats pretty cool. I wonder what it costs to enter as a student, since it doesnt say.

The Sage Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:42 pm

$2K

He's running mid-pack in day 3.

sharkskinman Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:04 am

y cant they have something like that here in the SW...

Woreign Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:45 am

sharkskinman wrote: y cant they have something like that here in the SW...

No one wants to rally through the desert... Too hot, and dangerous cacti! :wink:

Same reason one one wanted to do an organized Volkmarch or bike rally in the Goldsboro area of North Carolina: who wants to see tobacco fields and pig farms? :roll:

hydrochloric Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:18 am

Goodness, I never saw this! Sorry for the necro-bump, but I'm the owner/driver. My father owned the '61 Imperial.

I wish I could have linked to the blog on the Great Race page, but as I didn't race in 2013, they pulled it.

FWIW I'll be going again this summer, but in a 1950 Hudson Commodore. This summer we run from Maine to Florida.

chaosisme Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:45 pm

Do you have any pictures from the rally? You should post some here.

vlad01 Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:42 pm

Woreign wrote: sharkskinman wrote: y cant they have something like that here in the SW...

No one wants to rally through the desert... Too hot, and dangerous cacti! :wink:

Same reason one one wanted to do an organized Volkmarch or bike rally in the Goldsboro area of North Carolina: who wants to see tobacco fields and pig farms? :roll:


desert would be awesome!

hydrochloric Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:55 am

chaosisme wrote: Do you have any pictures from the rally? You should post some here.

Hmm, not too many. My navigator took the most, but we very rarely had time. There's a fair amount online, though not of the rather pedestrian VW! The race really favors the true antiques.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/tag/1966-vw-squareback-sedan/
http://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/20...-and-skill
http://greatrace.smugmug.com/Cars/Great-Race-2012
The smugmug album is all of the media teams images.

http://goo.gl/oWIjRB
This one is definitely one of my favorites! No, it doesn't powerslide well, but the brakes did manage to drag it down from 75 twice, those discs are good. Usually we aren't going that fast, but as is typical on the car, I'd lost the starter and it screwed with fuel consumption to always leave the car running, so we often fell behind from additional fuel stops and had to make up time. It's very weird, hammering on such an underpowered car to pass others. :lol:


Here's a video the media team put together. You'll see the Squareback in one primary shot, the wheel was wobbling so I was checking the bearing.


I wish I could find my image of it, but we had a "lost person" sign in the middle window- When you get a zero-second error on a leg, you get an "ace", and it was our goal for the race to get one. Never did, I think our lowest error was 2 seconds, so I made some signs for the windows that said
"Missing since June 24th:
Zero "Ace" Leg"
with an image of an ace playing card. They ended up giving us some actual ace cards from a deck that we stuck on the doors! Goes to show the race really requires the special speedometer.

eyetzr Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:02 am

there is a rally in Newfoundland Canada called the Targa Newfoundland & it has a touring class.No special equipment, no timers, just drive the same course as the racers. Look it up, I follow it every year. I thought it would be cool to try one year.

hydrochloric Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:26 pm

eyetzr wrote: there is a rally in Newfoundland Canada called the Targa Newfoundland & it has a touring class.No special equipment, no timers, just drive the same course as the racers. Look it up, I follow it every year. I thought it would be cool to try one year.

I actually plan on running the Newfoundland, but not in my VW... I have a '83 944 that I'm slowly building for SCCA Touring, I want to run in that. A few years in the future I'm afraid. Gotta escape college first!

I also forgot to mention the Squareback showed up in a legitimate movie! HBO shot some scenes of "Muhammed Ali's Greatest Fight" in the Capital Region area of NY, and they were looking for late 60's/early 70's cars of the non-muscle variety. Not sure how much less muscle you can get!



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