| TRIUMPH T150 goes vintage racing... |
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| 1979 would be our first time at participating in a vintage motorcycle race. Mike Lewis, aka VROOM, had made a deal with the AFM to run a vintage event during the On Any Sunday-II AFM Ontario 6-hour weekend. With that known, we loaded up Bret's 1967 BSA A65H Hornet, Chris Quinn's 250 Ducati, and our 6-hour bike, a 1969 Triumph Trident. The TOP picture is from Saturday; and is filled with a number of future CVRG/AHRMA members. Scott Borem (Bul) is on nearest the camera, then Mike Green (T150), Bret on the Hornet. Jody Nichols is in the background on his Gilera. Paul Shoen (Norton 750) and Chris Quinn are not visable. |
| Below: The start of Saturdays VROOM race; Bret Morshead hole-shots Mike Green... Green would pass Bret before turn-1 and lead every lap... that is until only yards from the finish the Trident ran out of fuel and Bret screamed past for the win! On Sunday the tables were turned and Green lead every lap to win. During Sunday's VROOM race the On Any Sunday-II camera bike split Green and Morshead and stayed there filming for some 5-laps... we ended up on the cutting room floor. |
| Later in the year VROOM held a vintage event during the Champion Spark Plug 200k race (AMA National) at Laguna Seca. Things didn't go well for the VROOM leader nor participants alike... as the race was deamed by management (either the track or AMA) that we "could not race, but to parade". The other rules was, "Vesco will lead, and no one is to pass him". When the green flag fell Don Vesco and Jody Nichols took off, by turn-4 Dave Neal had passed them both... the race was on! On lap-5 my oil warning light came on heading into turn-3, the engine locked up moments later. An exploded oil filter caused the massive engine failure. In regards to VROOM, if memory serves, the next event they would hold wouldn't be until Riverside 1981 during the AMA 6-Hour... here we'd enter our 1929 Sunbeam 500cc road racer. |
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