A picture from this weekend

Nice! I would like to here about the car tho...

 

Thanks everyone!! It is an annual event the the Northwoods Shelby Club holds at Road America. It isn't fender rubbing racing, it's against the clock. Usually it is a three day event but this year we lost our Friday to the Champ Car guys, a number of teams needed a practice day. But Friday and Sunday are usually the high speed touring days(non-competitive,passing only in the straights with a point around) and Saturday is the Autocross(timed runs with the same passing rules. They group people by previous years times, car ability, and driver experience, there was four groups of about 15 cars. The class I was in is CP(which is '65-'66 Mustang and Shelby,race prepared) RA is a 4 mile road course, my top speed is about 130 maybe 135, it's hard to tell my race tires are shorter so that throws off the speedo, I know it's pointing straight down at that point.

Check out the club website www.nwshelbyclub.com click on the frostbits link and go to page two, it may take some time for things to load but there is some pics and info about the car there, about half way down the page. Also, chack around on the rest of the site there's pics of past events, and other info there.

As far as the grille goes, that was the cheapest one I could find, needed some repair, but it just so happened to have lights in it.

I'll post info about the car in a different thread.

 

135 , Wow!!!!

 

I like cornoring too. I am not quite sure how I will address that on th War Machine. I have tubular a arms new in the box. I might just mustang II it for all the extra engine space.

 

Cool Story!

What in the way of safety equipment is required to run in your
class?

-rollbars I am sure-but what type?
-harness?
-auto fire extinguisher?
-fuel cell?
-any lanyards on moving parts or wire tieing?


Seth

 

sounds like something new for the roundup. uh-oh, i know i shouldn't have said that.

 

Sounds like something I would love to do! And I got a helmet!

 

What the average speed you got to slow down to for turns 5,6, and 8 in a mostly stock maverick/mustang like car? That track looks like a load of fun!

 

Acornridge has a darn good memory, the three point belt requirment first came up a couple of years ago. But we did have a guy with an original '65 Shelby come up with just lap belts, he didn't want to cut up the car, almost had to turn him away, but with help from some of the club guys, he improvised and was able to run. Depending on lap time they do recommend a sinlge layer drivers suit, at least. I think that it if you are in the 2:30's or 2:40's.

As far as speed for the sharper turns 5,6,8,12, in an early type Ford, that depends on the size of the drivers kiwi's. I think I may be doing around 30-35??? Other guys are cornering a lot harder, espicially the fox bodies and newer Mustangs, they handle so much better that the early cars. I'm not sure of that, but I average around 82-83 mph.
It is a blast, when I started I was driving my '95 Crown Vic, not setting any speed records but it was still fun.
I'll be sure to keep people posted when they update the website with this last events info.

Here's some more pics from it.

The blakc ragtop was an '04 Cobra that lost it in the kink, there were other incidents, like a '66 Hertz Shelby that lost it in the kink as well, that one was hard to look at. No one was hurt though.

 

Nice! Thanks for the video.

 

Justs looks like too much fun. Can anyone go out there or do you need a license of something?

 

It's open to anyone who buys a club membership, used to be just Ford and Ford powered only, but declining participation caused the club to open up to other makes. But it is pretty cool to see other cars out there.

More pics.............................