More Hershey

8 foot Eiffel Tower made from Erector set. 

Perfect day.

Hershey Hotel on the hill.

Hershey!

It's Hershey day.   Even airplanes are for sale.

It's a start...

Got a couple of hours in the other day.  Working toward removing the engine first.

October progress report

Not much to report.  Been busy with the latest antique show and other projects.  Going to Hershey, PA next week for the big antique car meet and flea market.  I always find something.
Should get some time in on the car next week.  It will be 2015 before I know it.

2015 F5000 Drivers Association Race Schedule (unofficial)

Not official yet, but the race schedule is looking like this:

Road America in July.

Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in August.

COTA in October.

New driver harnesses for 2015

My driver harnesses will expire at the end of this year.  So next year I will take a look at a different manufacture.

All driver harnesses have a expiration date.  Maybe usable for 5 years?

Back on the stands

In a previous post I said the work on the car would start in September.  Sure enough I placed the car on the stands yesterday.  How about that, on schedule.

F5000 Association update

Received a email this morning from the F5000 association.

F5000 at 2015 Monterey Reunion – Planning for the F5000 group to participate at this August 2015 event is continuing. Look for more information in the coming week on how you can prepare to enter your car for this event and other helpful information to get your car to the Mazda Raceway in Laguna Seca.

Bad dog!

 I haven't done anything with the car yet, but I'm starting to think about the gear set replacements.  Looking through the spare sets, they all really need to be replaced.  I would need 3rd, 4th and 5th.  I only use 1st to leave the pits and 2nd would be on slow tight turns.

The dog on this gear has very little wear.

The dog on the corner is well rounded.  This was a new gear a couple of years ago, but I use for all the tracks I race on(4th gear).  This was the one that was giving me trouble at Canada back in June.

A new dog ring on a gear.  They all should look like that.

Back to antique trucking

Just finished converting the race hauler back to a antique hauler.

I've removed the winch and all the wiring.
I'm going to use the truck just for the antique business.  No more race car hauling.  

Interesting

I follow a couple of forums on other web sites and found this bit of information some-what interesting.
Every once in-awhile they check engine size(know as engine pump).  I think the last time for the F5000 group was back at Watkins Glen in 2009. All was ok.  This was done again at the last event at Road America, below the findings.  The maximum size is 305cid for the F5000 engines.

"I pumped a number of group 6 motors this year at the Hawk as well as six F/5000 motors. Only one F/5000 was over at 320cid. I won't say who it was but he is one of your B/Sedan guys!" 

Long Beach, CA 1975

This is from the Los Angeles Times newspaper dated September 29, 1975.  Reporting on the F5000 Long  Beach Grand Prix race.  The whitish car in the center of the photo is the JB Lola T192.  

Another Long Beach race report this time from the Independent

Oshkosh...looks like New Jersey to me

Oshkosh starts today but it's a trip that I'm not going to be able to make this year.  Other issues having taken priority. But on a positive note, I did clean and wax the plane.  It takes a couple of days and one of those things that you put off doing for years.
Don't have any work plans for the race car in August.  September is when I'll start on it again.

A clean race car

I took a quick look at the car and think this is the cleanest it's every come back from a race.  Really no reason to clean any of the body work  Now I need to setup a schedule for the car overhaul.

Finally back in the shop

Yesterday I removed the car from the back of the truck.  After I winched the car out, I went to winch up the cable and nothing happened.  The switch was clicking but no winch movement.  Glad this didn't happen at the last event. It would have taken a whole lot of people to push the car back into the truck.