I'm chuffed to see the Classic board over here, so I'm going to take the opportunity to selfishly violate message board etiquette and cross post a question I asked of the Vintage Racing board over on CMS.
tl;dr: Some of you may recall the fact that my dad picked up a '60 Catalina racer. The following (long) post asks the question of where/how to start racing the thing.
My father recently bought a '60 Catalina that has been used most recently for some form of circle track racing. It's gutted, caged (with a pretty serious-looking modern cage) and has a tubular front subframe/engine cradle that allows it to run a-arm suspension (which we don't think is biased for left turns, but we're not sure). Drivline consists of a Pontiac 400 backed with a 2 speed Powerglide, though we we intend to eventually replace that combination with a more period-appropriate 421/M-22.
Long story short, we'd like to make this season into sort of a shake-down/prep season, both for the car and ourselves. Neither of us have any significant track experience beyond a handful of motorcycle track days I've done. We're thinking of just basic HPDEs and such this season, then getting 'serious' next year. Also, keeping true to its recent nature by doing a little circle track racing is certainly not off the table. We're pretty much down for whatever.
So, I suppose I'm asking the braintrust to hold my hand and wade with me into the shallow end of the racing pool, with the eventual plans of tossing me into the deep end head first.
Care to help?
(This thread is useless without pics.)
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcarlson/sets/72157624237913920/
