hoffman900
XS650 Addict
Out of the post from the exhaust forum:
A little background:
I'm a broke, full time college student. Grew up riding dirtbikes and bmx'ed. Towards the end of high school, I bought a Miata and started autocrossing, which I did for a few seasons. In addition, my father road raced a Yamaha FJ600 in the early 1980s. Friends of ours race and I grew up helping out on their cars.
The first is a '63 Triumph TR4:
The owner/driver/builder of this car has been racing since the late 1950s. He owned repair shop that did race car building / dyno tuning as well. He was the only privateer to take it to and beat the factory backed Triumph teams in the 1960s. He was leading the national championship race in 1965 when he lost the overdrive (essentially 5th gear) and had to settle for 5th. He later raced Shelby Cobra's (2nd in the nation to a factory backed 'Vette in 1970), did some F5000 racing, race IMSA, and built the first Toyota to win a professional race in North America. He retired from racing in the early 80s, but bought his old TR4 back and restored it and has been tearing up the track since. This is one of, if not the fastest, TR4 in the world right now.
Here is some in-car. Qualified 2nd oa of about 50, but had to start mid-pack due to some problems in the qualifying race. He is 76yo at the time of this video:
Second is GT-Lite Toyota Tercel:
The driver/owner grew up in the Triumph driver's shop and has worked for racing schools as a mechanic before starting a real career. The car is a tube chassis, silhouette, racer (fiberglass Tercel body draped over it). It is rear wheel drive and is badass fast.
Here is a qualifying lap which put him first overall:
Friends of ours also have Spec Miata, which is an uber competitive road racing class.
As for the bike:
I picked this bike up a year and a half ago for a steal. I don't know all the details, other than it was built by a Yamaha shop just outside of Reading, PA as a "street legal flat track bike". The kid I bought it from inherited it from his uncle, so all he knows is that it "wheelies and belches fire". It was advertised as having a 'White Brother's engine'. It had Progressive shocks and fork springs, and the rear subframe was also chopped and a flat track tail was installed. I've had it for about a year, but I didn't get it running until this past June. When I finally got it running, I ran it hard through the gears hard and parked it until August (full time student, work, other hobbies that were more pressing).
A little background:
I'm a broke, full time college student. Grew up riding dirtbikes and bmx'ed. Towards the end of high school, I bought a Miata and started autocrossing, which I did for a few seasons. In addition, my father road raced a Yamaha FJ600 in the early 1980s. Friends of ours race and I grew up helping out on their cars.
The first is a '63 Triumph TR4:
The owner/driver/builder of this car has been racing since the late 1950s. He owned repair shop that did race car building / dyno tuning as well. He was the only privateer to take it to and beat the factory backed Triumph teams in the 1960s. He was leading the national championship race in 1965 when he lost the overdrive (essentially 5th gear) and had to settle for 5th. He later raced Shelby Cobra's (2nd in the nation to a factory backed 'Vette in 1970), did some F5000 racing, race IMSA, and built the first Toyota to win a professional race in North America. He retired from racing in the early 80s, but bought his old TR4 back and restored it and has been tearing up the track since. This is one of, if not the fastest, TR4 in the world right now.
Here is some in-car. Qualified 2nd oa of about 50, but had to start mid-pack due to some problems in the qualifying race. He is 76yo at the time of this video:
Second is GT-Lite Toyota Tercel:
The driver/owner grew up in the Triumph driver's shop and has worked for racing schools as a mechanic before starting a real career. The car is a tube chassis, silhouette, racer (fiberglass Tercel body draped over it). It is rear wheel drive and is badass fast.
Here is a qualifying lap which put him first overall:
Friends of ours also have Spec Miata, which is an uber competitive road racing class.
As for the bike:
I picked this bike up a year and a half ago for a steal. I don't know all the details, other than it was built by a Yamaha shop just outside of Reading, PA as a "street legal flat track bike". The kid I bought it from inherited it from his uncle, so all he knows is that it "wheelies and belches fire". It was advertised as having a 'White Brother's engine'. It had Progressive shocks and fork springs, and the rear subframe was also chopped and a flat track tail was installed. I've had it for about a year, but I didn't get it running until this past June. When I finally got it running, I ran it hard through the gears hard and parked it until August (full time student, work, other hobbies that were more pressing).