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Old 06-17-2015, 09:03 PM
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I was at Indy last week, to crew for Jim Glass and his 1965 Corvette, at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) meet. Besides Jim's 65, we were also helping out with Bill Bogner's 66, and a little with Ray Zisa's 90 World Challenge Series Corvette.

Here's a look at most, if not all of the 63-67's, that were in attendance. The first car is Jim's 65, that was co-driven by Pete Halmser in the Pro/Am race. Bill's 66 is the dark blue one in the second picture. The white 63 with the blue stripe (#44) belongs to Forum member "C2racer", and the black 63 with the red and white stripe (#63) is Forum member "63Corvette".


































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Here's a look at some of the newer Corvettes, that raced at Indy last week. The final picture is this year's Indianapolis 500 Pace Car, that was also used to pace the Pro/Am race.




















































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Nice pics! I wonder who among them will post on YouTube. Thanks for posting. Dennis
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Finally, here are some various pictures from the weekend, including some racing action, and shots from the grid. Early Friday morning, we took Jim's 65 over to get some pictures of it in from on the Speedway Museum.









































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One hurt and many wows. Great shots and I really appreciate you sharing them.

What a wonderful event. Beautiful cars, more than I few I would like to see in my garage.

Thank you.
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I see Garrett racing his z06 in the last photo of the first post! Thanks for putting these up!
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I'm working an SVRA race this weekend at Fontana. I hope we get as good a turnout as it appears you did at Indy.
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Awesome shots of great cars.
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I am wondering how one "bends" the front end of a Corvette like that? #125
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Thanks so much for posting the pics!
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Really great pictures of several generations of vintage Corvette race cars.
Thanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by bjm
I am wondering how one "bends" the front end of a Corvette like that? #125

one runs out of talent...
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It's easy to do when the car in front of you brakes or slows unexpectedly. I don't know exactly what happened here though, but we are racing not running parade laps.

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