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Vintage Sports Car
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The Siata will be waiting for us at the shipper in Milan and once we arrive we will pick her up on Saturday; hopefully unscarred and undamaged. For this trip, Chuck Carl will be my co-pilot in the chase car for the Siata. Chuck has a long and eventful driving history with some real “out of this world” experiences. Chuck drove in the first three of the Martell (Cognac) rallies in China with no less than an MG TD for two of the races and a freshly restored Lotus Elite for the other.
His first rally in 1986 was 60 miles long, the second twice that distance. The last rally was a familiar 1000 miles long from Hong Kong to Gullin and back. Chuck recanted; “And some of the roads were even paved”. The poor little freshly restored Lotus looked like she had been rolled after the trip was over. Our shop restored that car a couple of years ago, and she now resides in Peoria, Illinois in the Wheels O’ Time museum. Chuck raced a Bug Eye in the days when they were competitive in SCCA. Later on he raced a Historic Race Car prepped Mini Cooper S. Chuck has driven about anything on wheels and tracks from race cars to a Caterpillar pipe layer to pulling his own 5thwheel with his Dodge pick up.. This trip I am sure we will have another great adventure, and I will do my best to let you enjoy it as much as possible too. From Saturday evening on I will be giving you updates on all the crazy stuff that we encounter, and will try to get as many pictures as we can post. Happy motoring! Yves Boode
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As the days fly by here in the shop my departure time approaches quickly.
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Vintage Sports Car Inc. is a division of Historic Race Car, LLC in Woodstock, IL. We felt it necessary to make a separate division for our street car customers, as not all vintage car owners see their beloved old timer as a race car.
Much to our customer's advantage, we service street cars with the same attention to detail as we do with the much more stressed race cars. Apart from our specialties, Mini's, MG's, Renault (Alpine and other Renault based cars), we have experience in many other brands like Fiat, VW, Alfa Romeo, Lotus and Citroen.
Please have a look at this web site, and feel free to contact us for more information.
