Great historical race footage. In retrospect, really wish I would have scooped up a late 60’s Corvair, in 1979, instead of my Nova SS. And went racing at Nelson Ledges instead of Thompson Dragstrip. Cool car and owner JT Orlando Florida
Thank you for this. I saw you race at Road Atlanta, James...still to this day some of the most skillfull, FUN to watch car control i've ever seen, especially under the bridge...and I've seen a lot...i've raced formula cars, motorcycles , mx, vintage mx, supermoto, dirt track in the infield , at Road A and across the southeast, been to 24 Hours of Daytona and Sebring hundreds of times, Can Am at Road A (my dad was good friends with Arthur Montgomery, and knew Dante ) and you my friend, were something else to watch...thank you James !
@ 1:57 you can see those cars drift to the outside of the curve . That is real drifting and not like these idiots do today . All they are doing is loosing traction on the back wheels . Real drifting is when all four wheels looses a bit of traction .
Great historical race footage.
In retrospect, really wish I would have scooped up a late 60’s Corvair, in 1979, instead of my Nova SS. And went racing at Nelson Ledges instead of Thompson Dragstrip.
Cool car and owner
JT
Orlando Florida
Thank you for this. I saw you race at Road Atlanta, James...still to this day some of the most skillfull, FUN to watch car control i've ever seen, especially under the bridge...and I've seen a lot...i've raced formula cars, motorcycles , mx, vintage mx, supermoto, dirt track in the infield , at Road A and across the southeast, been to 24 Hours of Daytona and Sebring hundreds of times, Can Am at Road A (my dad was good friends with Arthur Montgomery, and knew Dante ) and you my friend, were something else to watch...thank you James !
When racing could be done by normal working class people. Stingers are $60,000 cars now...
A nice trip "down memory lane"!! So good to see James Reeve is still passionate about a fast car! Keep up the good work!
I just bought the Hotwheels Premium Venko Stinger :)
@ 1:57 you can see those cars drift to the outside of the curve . That is real drifting and not like these idiots do today . All they are doing is loosing traction on the back wheels . Real drifting is when all four wheels looses a bit of traction .
I could not tell if the MG is a B or C . That would be a MGB or MGC but it is vary fast car indead .
Where the hell did they get that sound track? Not even close!
Corvairs are ill handling ????,I am confused,on pole with a ferrari,??
The Ferrari was B Production. The Corvair was D Production. USAC ran cars of different classes in the same race.
«If the 911 have been an U.S. car, it would be exactly like this!» Jay Leno about the Corvair by Yenko.
bowtie greatness.
That's funny I used to own a '66 Corvair Turbo Coupe, I sold that to get a '80 Triumph TR8, nice to see them racing!
The corvair lead the field!!!!!!!