Non-VRCBC News & Events | Vintage Racing Club of BC - Part 12

Non-VRCBC News & Events

20 May

Posted at 11:59h in All British Field Meet by
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[caption id="attachment_7034" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Getting ready: the VRCBC Booth before the gates open - VRCBC photo"][/caption]

Updated: May 23, 2012

The 27th edition of the All British Field Meet (ABFM) - 'The Greatest Show on British Wheels' - was held on Saturday, May 19th at Vancouver's Van Dusen Gardens. The weather was perfect and all of the cars looked great. The VRCBC display was in its traditional location, right inside the main entrance, greeting the very large crowd of visitors as they entered Memory Lane.

The VRCBC was very well represented by Mark Brown's two time REVS Champion Lotus Seven, Al Harvey's MGB, Al Reid's MGB, Ralph Zbarsky's MGB GT, Nick Woodhouse's Austin Healey, Ivan Lessner's multiple REVS Champion Austin Healey, and John McCoy's Lotus Cortina. There was a great deal of interest in the cars and in Vintage racing at Mission Raceway Park Road Course.

Update: The winners of the many awards and prizes are now posted on the Western Driver / ABFM website (here) soon. Our congratulations to VRCBC racers, John McCoy and Nick Woodhouse who took first and third places respectively in the Race Cars category.

The following few photos give you some idea of what was a very enjoyable day.

08 Apr

Posted at 05:12h in Car Shows by
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[caption id="attachment_6524" align="aligncenter" width="450"] The traffic was heavy at the SCCBC - VRCBC stand. - VRCBC photo[/caption] This year's Vancouver International Auto Show has again proved to be very popular with car enthusiasts of all types. Many of them have visited the joint SCCBC - VRCBC stand to ask questions about our road racing at Mission Raceway. Most of the questions have been about spectating but there has also been a lot of interest in getting involved 'on-track'. Two good friends of the VRCBC, Intermeccanica Custom Coach Builders (here) and Classic and Collector Car Insurance specialists, Hagerty (here) also attracted big crowds. Check out some more photos below.

30 Mar

Posted at 15:08h in Sebring, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_6449" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Michael Zbarsky in the 1959 MGA Twin Cam - Zbarsky photo"][/caption]

Well known MG devotees (and long time VRCBC members) Ralph and Michael Zbarsky have just completed a great trip to Sebring. This year Sebring celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the famous 12 Hours endurance race. As part of this celebration, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) support race honoured the 50th Anniversary of the last MGA participation in the 12 Hours. A total of 19 different MGAs participated in the 12 Hours over the 1956 to 1962 period. Ten of those cars are known to have survived and eight of them were at Sebring this year.

Michael raced their 1959 MGA Twin Cam roadster (#53) - maybe the last time a MGA Twin Cam will take the Green Flag / Chequered Flag combo at the Sebring track? And Ralph raced their 1967 MGB GT (#60). This former BMC Works Team car has some former 'history' at Sebring. (Check out this You Tube video of the 1970 race around the 2:20 mark!) Ralph must have retrieved that wheel because the car is beautifully restored now. See below.

01 Mar

Posted at 11:00h in SOVREN by
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Martin Rudow, the Editor and Publisher of SOVREN's excellent quarterly magazine, VINTAGE DRIFT has just released the February 2012 issue. It contains a preview of the upcoming season's events (including our BCHMR in August - click here) as well as the second article in his very interesting, continuing...

20 Feb

Posted at 11:00h in SCCBC by
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[caption id="attachment_6302" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Rod Davison applies some finishing touches. - VRCBC photo"][/caption]

.. a lot got done during the SCCBC Work Party at the track on Saturday, February 18th. Check out the SCCBC Facebook page (here) for photos of the work done with tire bundles and on the Timing and Scoring building.

VRCBC Race Director Al Harvey led his team with 'Penske-like' efficiency (ruthlessness?) in the building of two new corner work stations. See more photos from Saturday below.

There is still a lot more work to be done before the season opens but the track improvements are looking really good already. The next work party has been called for Sunday March 4th. (Click here for info.) Please volunteer some time if you can.