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Originally Posted by CSX 4027
A Kirkham lightweight Jag E type Cobra Killer with 400 hp and 2100 lbs. Best of all, it's a vintage car that can be vintage raced and win.
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I think it depends on the sanctioning body, but I think generally for a car
to acceptable for vintage racing it actually has to have a "vintage" provenance.
So you can build an exact pin for pin replica of an alloy-body E-type and it
won't be acceptable for vintage racing unless you can prove it was built in the
time period when such cars were actually built. Several extremely accurate and
beautifully constructed Aston-Martin DBR1's that are exactly like the one that
Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori used to win LeMans in 1959 have been built,
but they are not "vintage" from the standpoint of vintage racing. Same thing
goes for Lotus 49's that have been built in recent years. Despite the fact they
are not elgible for vintage racing events, they are still highly desirable cars
and will give you the feeling that the late Jim Clark must have felt when he
braked into the "Tarzanbocht" at Zandvoort in 1967.
....Fred