[V8] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

[Ron Wainwright]

I might have to take Betty out of hibernation for this.

 Ron
91 V8 5sp mit 4.2 aka Black Betty (hibernating)

--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Andy Schor <walbum1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Andy Schor <walbum1 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
> To: cobram at juno.com, quattro at audifans.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com, s-car-list at audifans.com, 200q20v at audifans.com
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 4:05 PM
> Thanks for mentioning this.  The
> Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix has become a 
> car-guy carnival for 10 days every July.  Friday, July
> 16th there is an HP 
> Driver's School at BeaveRun www.beaverun.com race track
> along with the test 
> & tune sessions for vintage racers.  Saturday and
> Sunday are qualifying and 
> vintage racing at BeaveRun.  They also have autocross
> and karting.  There 
> are several events throughout the week, then more vintage
> racing Saturday 
> and Sunday (7/24-25) at Schenley Park.  This is the
> only race of its kind 
> still held on (closed) public city streets.  Drivers
> really seem to like the 
> course and there's always a wide variety of cool race
> cars.  If that isn't 
> enough, there's a big international car show on the golf
> course at Schenley.
> 
> Last year BMW was featured marque and they drew a huge
> showfield.  There 
> were also some very rare historic cars and an ex-David
> Hobbs 3 series IMSA 
> race car.  I don't expect mother Audi to bring pre-war
> Auto Unions, but it 
> would be great to see a good turnout of vintage
> Audis.  Next year P-cars 
> will be featured.
> 
> The PVGP has a good web site www.pvgp.org with tons of
> photos and links to 
> the events.  A volunteer staff (of 1200!) makes this
> event happen every 
> year, there is no cost for spectators, procceds are from
> race/show entries, 
> sale of mdse, and contributions.
> 
> It's a great event.  All proceeds from the entire PVGP
> go to charities like 
> Autism Society and Allegheny Valley School.  I am
> actually on the Italian 
> car show committee so I don't know what else is planned for
> the Audi Corral.
> 
> Andy Schor
> '91 200q20v Avant (299,500 miles)
> '91 Volvo 745 5.0 V8
> '76 Lancia Scorpion
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <cobram at juno.com>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:58 PM
> Subject: [V8] Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
> 
> 
> > Can't say I've ever heard of this before, but it
> sounds like something
> > worth checking out if you're within a days driving
> distance.
> >
> > Audi named as the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix's 2010
> Marque of the
> > Year. Corvettes and Yenko Sports Cars will be featured
> as Spotlight Cars.
> >
> > http://pvgp.org/pvgp/site/default.asp
> >
> > Plenty of time to make plans.
> >
> >
> > BCNU,
> > Yahoo nuked my website with no warning.
> > Fight organized crime: Re-elect no  one...
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