Healey pic

[MiataSteve]

I love old British cars.....

Not sure who the Gent was driving this car. If he is "out there" and wants a full hi-res copy..just pm me.

Steve ST4 Miata #232




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[enjoythemusic]

Lovely!

[StephanAlfa]

I have some of his car too coming out of turn 9

[DanB]

Hey, I have those same wheels on my S2000...

Sweet car. I'd love to see what's under the hood to put it in SPA. Turbo? SC? Turbonator?

[Mark Swinehart]

V-8

[DanB]

V8? Should be PA then, no?
Never heard of an Austin-Healey coming with a v8!

[WillM]

That thing got a Hemi?

Looks awesome!

[jlwhorf]

V8? Should be PA then, no?
Never heard of an Austin-Healey coming with a v8!

Kit cars and replicars are allowed in SP if they meet the rules otherwise
specified.

[chaos4NH]

I looked the car over at the track and it appeared to be a production AH 3000-6 with a V8 swap, not a kit car or replicar. What was the RX7 with the Chev V8 classed in?

[Mark Swinehart]

PA

[jlwhorf]

I looked the car over at the track and it appeared to be a production AH 3000-6 with a V8 swap, not a kit car or replicar. What was the RX7 with the Chev V8 classed in?

You did not look at it good enough. It has a tube chassis, mustang driveline and suspension. Except for a couple of body panels (most are fiberglass) are original AH. It is a replica car in full street clothes, therefore SPA.

Jonathan

[WillM]

You did not look at it good enough. It has a tube chassis, mustang driveline and suspension. Except for a couple of body panels (most are fiberglass) are original AH. It is a replica car in full street clothes, therefore SPA.

Jonathan

Mark is right. Tube chassis = PA.

IX. Street Prepared
Kit cars and replicars are allowed in SP if they meet the rules otherwise specified.

6. 100% of stock frame or sub-frames must be retained.

[jlwhorf]

Mark is right. Tube chassis = PA.

IX. Street Prepared
Kit cars and replicars are allowed in SP if they meet the rules otherwise specified.

6. 100% of stock frame or sub-frames must be retained.

Factory Five, ERA, Unique, ... , and home built cobras have different chassis than the original AC cobra. What makes this AH recreated car different from the cobras.

Jonathan

[brucesallen]

Mark is right. Tube chassis = PA.

IX. Street Prepared
Kit cars and replicars are allowed in SP if they meet the rules otherwise specified.

6. 100% of stock frame or sub-frames must be retained.

Factory Five, ERA, Unique, ... , and home built cobras have different chassis than the original AC cobra. What makes this AH recreated car different from the cobras.

Jonathan

This has always been a weakness in our rules: the definition of Kit car. My Lotary 7 (1999 SPA champ) was a custom car but a loose replica of a Lotus Super 7 with tube frame and many suspension parts and the whole drive train from a 94 RX7 Twin Turbo. The kit car definition is wide open.

[WillM]

Factory Five, ERA, Unique, ... , and home built cobras have different chassis than the original AC cobra. What makes this AH recreated car different from the cobras.

Jonathan

Good question, and a fair one at that. I would say that there is no difference, at least none that immediately comes to mind. I guess the car could be classed as SP (provided that the rollcage has a petty bar which would interfere with the passenger seat, otherwise the car has to have a passenger seat to be SP legal). I looked up some past results and clearly some Cobras run in SP and others in P.

As Bruce said, the definition of "kit car" has made the rule very vague.

If somebody wanted the trophy badly enough, they could run a significantly lightened tube-chassis Miata (or any car!) in SP, and totally change the suspension geometry. This, to me, seems beyond the intent of the rules and SP classification.

Regardless, the car looks awesome, and I dig the COM sticker! :thumbleft: