Winter is coming. It was 15F (-9C) here this morning. Time to start looking at the ultimate zombie apocalypse vehicle. The Hägglund bv 206. One of my racing pals has one of these on his farm. All four tracks are driven. Ideal for Antarctica or the Yukon or just for showing off in New Jersey.

The Pitt-Race race track (neat Pittsburgh & formerly BeaveRun) has been sold to Amazon & will be converted to a data center. Built around 2003, it has had many recent track-centered upgrades. It's surrounded by cheap land that is available. Local Pittsburgh races are devastated.

More cars I saw at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix car show held on the Roberto Clemente Bridge

More snaps from the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix car show on the Roberto Clemente Bridge

Over many years, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix arranged for a car show to be held on the Roberto Clemente Bridge (bridge was closed for the show). We couldn't always go due to busy racing. Not sure if they will have this in ‘26 due to schedule changes, but here’s photos I took at previous shows.

Gymkhana with us is Autotest, changing direction frequently in and out of boxes marked out with cones. This isn't me, I used to be good but that was waaaay before YouTube. Although I did do one at Silverstone after a 20 year break in the ZR and won a trophy. youtu.be/QRCkPHfyn8c?...

1981 and my first speed event - I think you call it Autocross, we call it a sprint. A Mk2 Sprite, itself vintage but so many were still around that the Midget was considered a current car even though out of production for a couple of years.

I've been an amateur club racer most of my life. But as I got older, I was really drawn to vintage racing because the cars are imperfect & have "personality" like some of my favorite people Driving an old crock around is more a series of lurches rather than smooth moves. I know all these cars well

The hood ornament I 3D printed and usually put on my MG racer for our Turkey Bowl Thanksgiving races

Thanksgiving is tomorrow here in the US. I love this cartoon drawn by famous Morristown NJ resident, Thomas Nast (who also created the US version of Santa). We're friends with some of the current Nast family. The cast of implied ethnicities makes it a wonderful sentiment-Hope we don't lose this view

First: I've never been to the actual Woodward Ave. Dream Cruise in Ferndale, Michigan. But I've been to that area around the time of the cruise and have attended some local cars shows where I saw some of the outlandish and breathtakingly weird cars that participate. A worthy Bucket List item

I mentioned Devins recently. This was a company that made fiberglass bodies that could be used to create front engine or rear engine homebuilt sports cars. I know all four of these Devins pictured quite well, having raced with 3 of them and done a long street tour (in my MGB) with the other one.

The Right are not just idiots...they are blithering idiots. This was a recent, serious message on a TV "news" site: “BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani plans to mandate that all elementary school students in New York learn Arabic numerals. We must protect our children from forced cultural change!”

Some Forgotten Fiberglass kit cars were fairly spiffy-looking. And some were hideous. For example....

Thinking of the Rover Turbine car, here's an ad for a home-brew VW turbine kit that you could use to convert your 40 hp VW Bug into an 850 hp monster (later 1000 hp). The magazine ad, from Turbonique, shows the result of an early test run where the Bug got airborne at 183 mph.

More Forgotten Fiberglass cars from the '50s & '60s. Many of these companies also built fiberglass boats (such as Glasspar) so this car-body business was a "natural" for them.

A friend brought his new-to-him Devin racer to our races last weekend. Devins were home-brew kits cars built on doner-car frames. Everything from old Chevy sedan frames to MG frames, etc. These home-built specials were common in the '50s and are now referred to as Forgotten Fiberglass. Some examples

What was your first car? Here's mine: a 1950 Austin A40 Devon I bought for $20 and drove illegally for about a year before I actually got a driver's license. I was in a rural area of the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens, and it was pretty easy to get away with stuff like this back in the day.

Not your typical rally cars. From the Hero Era Rally. (not my photos) www.hero-era.com

Legend race cars. These are a non-vintage spec class that usually race on circle tracks. Cars have sealed Yamaha 1250cc engine with 135 horsepower and 6 speed. They race mixed in with cars in our "modern" session. Works well. They lap a bit quicker than an MX5 at this track.

More random cars seen at VRG Turkey Bowl 2025 at Summit Point

Random cars seen at the 2025 Turkey Bowl races at Summit Point

When we picked up our new 718 Cayman at the Porsche Experience Center in 2018 @ Atlanta, they told us we would be getting a free subscription to the Porsche Panorama magazine. Now, 7 years later, we are still getting it. I always enjoy the cover art each month.

Several 510s seen at the 2025 VRG Turkey Bowl at Summit Point

Datsun Z-cars seen at the 2025 Turkey Bowl historic races at Summit Point. The #33 is a real-deal, ex-Paul Newman team car

Not-so-common race cars seen at the 2025 VRG Turkey Bowl historic races at Summit Point last weekend

For anyone who has an interest, here's 1 compete lap from the on-board video camera of my 1275cc MG Midget. My lap times run about 1:36 at this track (Summit Point) youtu.be/WOKNQOKZOis

Our VRG Turkey Bowl historic races last weekend includes a "modern" race group which allows some interesting entries to this event. One of the guys brought a Ligier LMP3 LeMans Prototype as well as a Ferrari Challenge car. A bit faster than my 55 year-old MG 😉

My friend Graham brought his new-to-him Devin kit car to our historic races last weekend. Front engine with 327 Chevy V8 and '56 Chevy frame. His onboard GPS said he was doing 138 mph at the end of the straight 😲

One-off, tube-frame Porsche 911 race car. In the flesh, it had strange proportions. Air-cooled 911 engine in the back

BMWs spotted at VRG Turkey Bowl historic races last weekend @ Summit Point

Did my last historic race of '25 this weekend at Summit Point. Here's some 914s I spotted.

Today I'm towing to Summit Point, W. Virgina for my last historic race of '25. It's a 350-mile tow. Won't be home until Monday. After that, it will be Winter car fixing time. There will be lots to do on both race cars. Here's snaps from this event in '24

Pitt Race, a track about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh is closing. The husband/wife owners are racers & they've created an excellent place. It's always busy. New buyers want to turn it into a data center. But there is lots of cheap, empty land nearby. Makes no sense ellwoodcity.org/2025/10/02/p...

Veterans Day here in the US (previously Armistice Day from WW1) The fighting ended the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, hence Nov 11th date every year. Thanks to my friend Santo for the original post.

Historic photos of "Foreign Car" dealers in the USA

Some not-so-common vintage race cars. I took all of these photos at Summit Point race track in West Virginia. I'll be there next weekend for a race

More cars & coffee photos from Summit, New Jersey

From local car & coffee show here in NJ

Cars seen at a local Triumph club event last year. The guy in the Mog trike drove almost 70 miles (one way) in heavy traffic to get there. Fortitude!

Night racing @ Summit Point raceway in West Virginia. My favorite racing circuit but a real challenge in the dark. The red Escort in the 1st photo is me. We all used max high beams on track which meant you had to mostly tape over rear view mirror so you weren't blinded-just left little slits to view

File under "Everything Has A Lifecycle": Years ago, I was at a race at Thompson Speedway when my engine made a weird rattle (but still ran). I packed it in and went home. This is what the crankshaft looked like when I pulled it out. Can't believe it still ran.

Saw my first Chevy BrightDrop all-electric step-van today. I'm a fan of step vans and used to have a Chevy Step Van (w/350 V8). Mine was former FDNY. I'd be a fan of these electric jobs if the range and towing was a bit better.

Best sign seen at a "No Kings" rally.

Zohran Mamdani won in NYC partly due to anti-Trump sentiment Mikie Sherrill won in New Jersey partly due to anti-Trump sentiment Abigail Spanberger won in Virginia partly due to anti-Trump sentiment Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan in California won partly due to anti-Trump sentiment It's a start...

Bruce does a nice riff about auto parts at the beginning of this song (around the 1:30 mark) Shot in Dublin in '06. The Irish crowd seems to love it youtu.be/jH-KLyZkq_g

Bad boys of racing; Don & Bill Wittington. Seen here with the Kremer Porsche 935 they bought for a bag of cash ($1miillion in todays money) after their own car died during practice at '79 LeMans. They then won with this car. But the cash was drug money & they went to jail. The 935 was seized too.

When we attend one of our historic car races, people arrive in all sorts of interesting road vehicles.

Here's a not-very common car for sale in Canada (I have no connection to it) www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-ca...

Category: Cars that remind you of each other but are unrelated. For me, a good example is the ASA 1000 GT (baby Ferrari) .....and the Glas/BMW 1300/1700 GT