Walter Mitty At Road Atlanta.

Hey All,

Its Mitty time again. April 22 - 24th at Road Atlanta.

We should have a dedicated Ferrari Corral so come on out and watch some great vintage racing!

Ciao.

Tom

 

I'll be there for sure!!

 

Whoooaaa its not this coming weekend. The Mitty is April 29th - May 1st!

 

I'm there... as always LOL

 

Yep me too. I've been to every Mitty since the mid 80s and have all my ticket stubs!

Like Tom said, lets have a Ferrari corral!

 

That's right, 4/29-5/1. Don't get your calendars mixed up! I'm really hoping to head up for it, great event.

http://www.roadatlanta.com/event_detail.lasso?-Token.eventfile=ev_mitty.lasso&-Token.id=3

 

I will be there too, as usual.

Looking forward to it

 

Will be there as well. Transportation depends on parts delivery.

 

yea i didnt think it would be Easter weekend

 

Tom....... you should have plenty of parking space this weekend.....

 

So.....are we going to make a Ferrari corral or not? I expect to be there on Saturday only, arriving early and leaving fairly early.

 

I'm there Friday... but most likely not on Saturday... got other "stuff" (around the house) to do!

 

Jeeez I'm glad this crappy weather will be over with by the weekend.

 

I'll be there Friday and Saturday.

 

Fri Sat for me

 

i'll be there saturday

 

I'll be there tomorrow briefly, then Saturday and Sunday in the white Mondial cab.

 

When I arrived on Saturday at around 8:15, the only cars in the Italian corral were a couple of Fiat 124 spiders. One of the owners told me that John Montgomery would be showing up with a newly-acquired Fiat 500, and indeed John and his Cinquecento were there when I returned from my paddock walk.

Not only that, but it was one of a numbered "Prima Edizione" commemorating the car's introduction into the U.S. market. A nice looking car with great seats and interesting instrumentation, surprisingly roomy for its size (though much larger than the old 500). I congratulated John on his new "Chrysler", and that's not far wrong, because the door sticker says "Manufactured by Chrysler Group LLC" and "Made in Mexico", with no mention of either Fiat or Italy! Such is modern motoring - will the real "import" car please stand up!

Later on, two more "Prima Edizione" 500s showed up, in grey and red, which happens to be the entire palette of available colors for the special edition. (The regular 500 will come in many more colors.) Eventually I was able to shoot some "family portraits".
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My walks through the paddocks found me looking at some very unique cars, the first being there because Mazda was the featured marque: a 1967 Cosmo Sport 110S, the first rotary-engined production Mazda, with a body that certainly looks very Italian but apparently isn't. (I understand that Jay Leno owns one of these.)

I found a Jaguar XJ220, maybe the same one as seen recently at FoA. I'm not sure what the silver car in the tent is; it is obviously rear-engined and air-cooled, so I think that it is some variation on the Porsche 356; can someone identify it?

Later I encountered the craziest Ford T-bucket I had ever seen - powered by a Lamborghini V-12. Are you kidding me? I was hoping that they would fire up this beast while I was in earshot, but no such luck. And a fellow in the corral had a rare Ghia 450 SS, one of 56 built in around 1967, styled by Giugiaro and Chrysler-powered.

The yellow bomb parked behind my Ferrari is an RCR Superlite kit car, made near Detroit and Corvette-powered. It is street legal and apparently very fast. I understand that the same people make a P4 replica. And to keep it yellow, a Mini Moke and its philosophical German counterpart, a VW Thing, were also in the corral at various times.
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The XJ220 is a local owned car and was the press car when it was introduced.

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Check out the license plate in the Top Gear video

 

i believe it is a Porsche Abarth.
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Correct Charles !
Very rare and worth a TON of money

Bill

 

This is a very rare Porsche 356 Carerra GT - Carlo Abarth modified & ran a bunch in the early 60's. This one has the Rally lights on so was most likely a modified 356 carerra street car... Factory GT's had vents on the front hood for added oil coolers and large center cap for quick refueling.

these are the cars that really established Porsche as a racing marque. They were very successful in european Hill Climbs series, and regularly won the class at the Nurburgring and LeMans... against C - D Types and GTO's... This was the greatest edition of the 4 cam carerra engine with Hirth Roller bearings... very rare and EXPENSIVE to own and run!

After these came the 904's with the 4 cam and then 6 cyl engines.

 

http://www.***************.com/car/593/Porsche-356B-Abarth-GTL.html

intersting read. Zagato made the bodies and Abarth did the mechanicals.

techincally speaking i imagine you could bring this to italian car day?

 

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JD