Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

June 7, 2017

Here they come! Peter Valkenburg (’69 Porsche 911), Phil Pidcock (’65 Triumph Spitfire), Paul Haym (’69 BMW 2002), Stanton Guy (’69 Datsun 510), Mike Zbarsky (’88 Chevrolet Camaro), Ian Thomas (’70 BMW 2002), and the rest of the field head into Turn 2. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: June 13, 2017

The SCCBC’s third race event of the season was held over the June 10-11 weekend at the Mission Raceway Park Road Course. Our Vintage racers took to the track on Sunday. The weather was perfect and the racing was great.

The full results for the weekend are available on the SCCBC web site (here). The Vintage Closed Wheel and the Open Wheel / Sports Racer results (for Sunday only) are also available under the Race Results menu on this web site (here).

Some of Brent Martin’s photos are shown below. There are many more on our VRCBC Facebook page (here) and on Brent’s own web site (here). Thanks Brent.

The next event at the Mission Road Course will be on the July 15-16 weekend. Mark your calendars now!

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June 7, 2017

Ian Wood unleashes his McLaren M12 – Jim Moody photo

Updated (again): December 17, 2017

The VRCBC was invited to participate in the Grand Opening of the fabulous new Area 27 track in Oliver on June 3rd. A group of our racers did some demonstration laps and had a very enjoyable time doing it!

Our long time friends Jim Moody and Brent Martin have provided us with a lot of photos, which you can see below. (Thanks guys).

There are other photos and videos on our VRCBC Facebook page and the Area 27 Facebook page (here). And Brent has posted many more on his personal web site (here).

Gerry Frechette has published over 800(!) of his Grand Opening photos in five albums on his web site (here). Check them out!

Update: There is also an excellent video presentation of the Grand Opening on Vimeo (here).

It was a great day at a great new facility; our congratulations to everyone involved!

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June 6, 2017

Chuck Lyford, Elva Mk 7 – photo credit

Posted: June 6, 2017

The west coast Vintage racing community is in mourning. Legendary racer Charles (Chuck) Lyford passed away from the injuries he suffered in a race accident at Spokane on June 4th. The entire Lyford family are long time supporters of the VRCBC and we reported (here) on Chuck and his wife Pam’s victory in the 2013 Vintage Cape Horn Rally.

There are already many stories and remembrances about Chuck’s amazing life across the internet. Our own Mike Tate has written down his memories and thoughts (here) on this remarkable man and his family. The VRCBC offers its sincere condolences to the Lyford family and his many, many friends in the Vintage racing community and beyond.

May 25, 2017

John Randall in his Brabham BT8 at the 1968 Knox Mountain Hillclimb. – Jim Moody photo

Posted: May 25, 2017

Long time VRCBC supporter Jim Moody was at this year’s Knox Mountain Hillclimb and has sent us a few of his photos plus some others from ‘back in the day’ showing some of the ‘heroes of yesteryear’ in action. Thanks very much Jim.

Check the Knox Mountain website (here) in the next week or so for more of his photos from this year’s event.

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May 24, 2017

Vintage Class winner Geoff Tupholme in his Mini. – Brent Martin photo

Updated: May 30, 2017

Several of the VRCBC’s finest and some other Vintage racers made the trip to Kelowna over the May long weekend for the 60th(!) edition of the Knox Mountain Hillclimb, the only remaining hill climb in Canada.

Update: Vintage Class winner, Geoff Tupholme’s last minute scramble to get his Mini ready plus an in-car video of a run up the hill is captured on video. (here).

Update: The results are available online here. Brent Martin was also there and passed on some his photos of the action (see below). He has posted a lot more on his Facebook site (here) and on his web site (here).

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