Here is the cover of the 1974 IMSA Program....with me on it.

[73c20jim]

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Our car is the second up on the right, white in color. Going to the left you can see our whole pit with all of the crew. I the one sitting on the guard rail.

 

[Arkansas_V8]

That is awesome. You happened to be in a good spot for that photo.

 

[Keith Seymore]

Very cool.

I've tried a couple times to get into road racing but - in one of life's strange ironies - I get car sick. The twists and turns, particularly in hot weather, wiped me out.

I've had to stay with drag racing for these last 40 years.

K

 

[dvdswan]

I see you, your the guy with the "BFG" on your back. "Big effer and Grumpy"! LOL

 

[Keith Seymore]

Jim -

You might appreciate these two contemporaneous Corvette stories.

My involvement here was basically getting the modern guys connected up with the engineer(s) who were there at the GM Proving Ground for the ZL1 introduction in 1969.

K

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/a...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

http://www.motortrend.com/classic/roadtests/1408_1969_chevrolet_corvette_lt_2_review/

K

 

[73c20jim]

BFG guy is in John Greenwood's two pits. Pits one and two. Too close to camera. Cars not in picture.

Pit three is ???? White and orange.

We have pit 4, right in middle of picture. Couldn't be more perfect.

When we rolled in and got the program, we all were shocked. We got as many programs as we could, but they are all now lost to history.

 

[73c20jim]

Keith Seymore,

Loved the stories.

The car in my signature picture and the one on the program are the same. I helped build it (there were three of us). It sold at auction over $100,000 a few years ago.

Stripped 68 Vette, 427 steel block aluminum head motor by King (someplace near Detroit) Basically OEM parts for suspension, M21 close ratio 4 speed.

I forget the rear end ratio.

We raced it from 73? to 76.

Based on this experience, I built my own race car from a stripped 71 Vette, Stock L88 put together motor, steel block, steel heads. M22, 4.11 gears.

I raced it from 76-79.

1976 Eastern Motorsports Racing Association (EMRA) A Production Champion.

1977 put a small block in it.
1977 SCCA Northeast Region B Production Champion
1977 SCCA North American Road Racing Championship (NARRC ) B Production Champion.

78-79 were leaner years. Lots of motor trouble.

Also 79 second kid.

End of racing career.