[Historybuff]

I think Steve Earle was pretty adament about not letting replicas run in Monterey when it was "his" event but now that he's not running Monterey anymore maybe the new stewards will have a more flexible attitude for 2010. For instance, I'd like to see a Daytona coupe rebodied over a genuine 289 Cobra be allowed to run, McCluskey has built several. And then there's the Victor Gauntlett sanctioned trio of "new/old" Aston Martin DB4GTZ Zagato coupes , the recently built Eric Broadley-sanctioned Lola T-70 coupes , and the recently built Jim Hall-sanctioned Chaparrals, all built exactly like the orginals by the original makers--I appreciate the original automakers bringing them back but where do you run them if you can't run them at a historic race?

On the other hand I once went to the Chicago Historics decades ago when Joe Marchetti was running them and was told half the cars leading the race were replicas. So I'd be curious to know where the new people in charge at Monterey are going to be different vis-a-vis replicas than Earle was (is).