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Mid-South ride, eat, and meet
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The Vintage Connection
The Kurtis 500 and the Allard JR were part of the Vintage Connection race team out of Oklahoma City. They maintained and raced a large collection of vintage race cars. Their stuff was a good as it gets. Expensive! The best. The owner of the team also owned the SVRA. They seriously raced to win. They spent what ever it took. The Kurtis Sport I drove earlier had an early 331 OHV V8. Slightly hopped up to maybe 150Hp. I think being I'm optimistic. We didn't race it, just street rallies. We were looking at one of their Allards which had the hood up. The car had the same engine, but I almost didn't recognize it. They must have spent a quarter of a million dollors hopping that thing up, unbelieveable. Leo and I just looked at each other in total disbelief. Later their team manager came over and explained all they had done to that engine. I think he said it put out over 400 Hp It was insane. The old sayin; the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Race toys, that is. Hey, whatever rocks your boat was fine with us. We're going to lunch and a movie.
The Kurtis 500 and the Allard JR were part of the Vintage Connection race team out of Oklahoma City. They maintained and raced a large collection of vintage race cars. Their stuff was a good as it gets. Expensive! The best. The owner of the team also owned the SVRA. They seriously raced to win. They spent what ever it took. The Kurtis Sport I drove earlier had an early 331 OHV V8. Slightly hopped up to maybe 150Hp. I think being I'm optimistic. We didn't race it, just street rallies. We were looking at one of their Allards which had the hood up. The car had the same engine, but I almost didn't recognize it. They must have spent a quarter of a million dollors hopping that thing up, unbelieveable. Leo and I just looked at each other in total disbelief. Later their team manager came over and explained all they had done to that engine. I think he said it put out over 400 Hp It was insane. The old sayin; the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Race toys, that is. Hey, whatever rocks your boat was fine with us. We're going to lunch and a movie.
It was fun, but I got over it. 
Cool bike projects.
Actually I went because Lentz allways has some neat bike projects going on.
Lentz showed a jig/fixture plate one of his company's built to make him a special brake carrier for his R1100S, He adapted afrontend off an HP1 to his bike but the carrier was 1mm off. The machined him a correct size carrier useing this jig. Excellent work.
Actually I went because Lentz allways has some neat bike projects going on.
Lentz showed a jig/fixture plate one of his company's built to make him a special brake carrier for his R1100S, He adapted afrontend off an HP1 to his bike but the carrier was 1mm off. The machined him a correct size carrier useing this jig. Excellent work.
