Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

aircooled said:

NickD said:

 

That looks like a well lightened Deserter GS.  (maybe 160 hp, maybe 1000 lbs?):

 A slightly different style with the cover off:

Here is one with a similar nose:

 

 

914 set up?  (engine in front of transaxle).

Correct. It's a Deserter GS with a VW 1600 engine that was raced on the East Coast back in the late sixties and early seventies. The Deserters were conceived by Dearborn Automotive Company (Alex Dearborn) and produced with help from Autodynamics Corp. in Marblehead, MA (Ray Caldwell). The Deserter GS had a tubular space frame, sort of a two passenger Formula Vee, unlike the GT version which was based on a shortened VW pan. The #44 GS was entered at Daytona in 1970, had a minor incident with a Porsche 917 during practice, and was withdrawn.

Pic of McMurtry Speirling totally unrelated:

Took this today, of my car, hoping to have it up on Bring a Trailer with no reserve soon.  Someone out there must want a running, driving but rough SM with a good roll cage and no title with 45k miles.  We had our fun for three lemons races with an S&M theme, won org choice and IOE, and resurrected a near dead rare car in the process.  
 

914Driver said:

aircooled said:

NickD said:

That looks like a well lightened Deserter GS.  (maybe 160 hp, maybe 1000 lbs?):

 

914 set up?  (engine in front of transaxle).

Sort of.  I don't know if they where ever setup with VW engine, but the ones I have seen have a mid-mounted Corvair (6 Cylinder) engine, as above.  The transaxle is VW.  Here are some pics. You can see the swing axle tubes (early VW) in the lower pic.

I do know they dominated AutoX's for a while.  As you can imagine, it avoids the common issue with Manx buggies, which is too much weight on the rear.

I might be looking forward to winter this year.   These are both 100+ mph machines. 

Black one is a 4 cylinder 2 stroke 750cc and the other is a twin piped 670cc with some other goodies

Autocross today.  What year is it again?

Bee!!!

Mtn?

In reply to Appleseed :

Nope, but awesome picture. I don't have nearly those hops, my legs are wayyy too short.

Reverse google search of that image gives this from the Toronto Star, March 3, 1969: 

Referee Strikes Back, Leaping high off the ice, referee Bob Fryday throws a solid punch at an obstreperous fan yesterday during collegiate league game between R. H. King and Western Technical at George Bell Arena. Fryday says minority of hooligans at high school hockey games raise to much rumpus referees may quit.

Typos are from the caption, presumably as it was published.

Interestingly, we are in a nationwide referee shortage. Here in Illinois, we're down by about 30%. Many didn't register in 2020 when we weren't sure if there would be a season, then didn't register again in 2021. Many didn't register because they were tired of the abuse. I'm personally not reffing until my daughter can get her vaccine, though I am registered so once she does get vaccinated, I'll be back on the ice 2 weeks after her second dose. 

One of maybe 2 pictures of me Reffing: 

OSHA who? 

Took me a long time to figure out what the matter was with that picture. The perspective of it, the size of the beam it is carrying, I thought it was a wall in the background!

I'm pretty sure OSHA requires you to have a guy riding on the forks keeping the load from bouncing around.

It got memed by a friend. 

Spotted at our local Audi dealership:

This explains a lot  about what's wrong with the world nowadays............ 
 

nderwater said:

That's pretty interesting.  Got any more details?

Pic unrelated:

In reply to lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) :

What does the 'P' stand for?  I have an answer that comes to mind.