CCR-SCCA Central Carolina Region Sports Car Club of America

The SCCA Southwest chapter of Central Carolinas will be meeting at Quaker Steak and Lube this thursday, August 12.

We will eat from 6 to 7 and meet from 7 to 8:30. THIS would be a great meeting to invite a friend that loves sports cars from work or from the neighborhood !

WE will be recapping a number of recent events from Eagle’s Nest Hillclimb,  Bele Chere autocross, CSCC plans for coming year and upcoming Carolina Cup Pro Series race weekend combined with a Time Trial and PDX at Carolina Motorsports Park next month!

Hope to see you there thursday. Write if you have any questions!

Ted Theodore
Chapter Chairman
ted@ccrscca.com

South Western Chapter of Central Carolinas Region – Greenville Chapter  

Autocross – Road Race  – Time Trial – Rally – Collectors – Restoration – or just Sports Car Lovers! 

Meeting –  June 10th Thursday at  Quaker Steak and Lube off Woodruff Rd.

I would like to invite you to attend our June SWCCCR meeting! Eat from 6 to 7 and meet from 7 to 8:30 (although parking lot meetings have gone on until 11 to 11:30.) 

As always, we will re-cap recent motorsports events, cover all up-coming autocrosses, car shows, time trialsand road races. We’ll also have time for swap and sell so if you have items for sale or trade, bring a good description.  Scott Franklin will have some updates on road racing. The Clemson Sports Car Club should have a report on their next autocross  in Anderson. Ron Wilcox will have a report on CMP Lemons race.          

I will be speaking on Hillclimbing. With the Wolf Ridge Hillclimb coming up this weekend, we’ll give you a          report on what to expect, how courses are laid out, where to take pictures and info how things are run. If you or your friends are interested in getting started in time trial or hillclimb, this would be a great time to invite them. We may even talk John Finger into saying a few words about his experiences as one of the best hillclimbers in the southeast.

We always try to have some cars on display but you are always welcome to top bring yours and park in our show area!We’ll look forward to having you with us.  Come early and bring a friend… we have room! Thanks!  
Ted Theodore    tedagmar@juno.com   (864) 915-5052

Ted promised a BIG meeting this month and I think you will be pleased when you hear the speaker’s topic. Our meeting will be held Thursday, May 13th at Quaker Steak and Lube on Chrome Dr. next to Harley Davidson dealer near Woodruff Road in Greenville, SC We will eat from 6 to 7, meet from 7 to 8:30. We will have a parking area boxed off to the side so polish up your ride and show it! The manager there told me customers always like looking through the lot at our cars on meeting nights!

We will get an update on recent events in autocross, Time trials and road races. a Few special reports are planned. We’ll try to keep the meeting short to save time for our guest speakers.

If you have not read or heard about it recently… there is a new race track being planned to be built in South Carolina near Gaffney. It may well be the longest road course in North America. Matt Mullins and Bill Conger will be presenting to our group their plans for Racers Paradise. THIS is BIG news for all of us… and I am very appreciative to Matt and Bill for choosing to release this information to the motorsport’s community through our SWCCCR chapter meeting. You can expect a crowd so come EARLY. Hope to see you there.

More information about the track can be found on www.thesoutherndriver.com

We had a request from the restaurant to have some race cars on display. If anyone has a race prepared car they would like to bring to display, please email Ted.

Ted
tedagmar@juno.com

Don’t forget the SWCCCR Meeting this thursday night at Quaker Steak and Lube! We’ll eat from 6 to 7 and meet from 7 to 8:30.

We will have recap on CMP CCPS TT and PDX weekend, VIR race weekend, future events including Little Talledega GP Time Trial, Auto Fair at Lowe’s Motorspeedway, CCR Novice  Driving School and Autocross, Clemson Autocross and Motorports Festival Plans.

And we look forward to hearing from our members what THEY have been up to as well!

Our speaker will be this week - ME! The topic is The Future of Southeastern Motorsports. I’d like to talk about what’s available today, where we are now and what I see as the future directions we’ll be heading. Do we need tighter controls, more or less events, more rules, less classes? How do you get from autocross to Time Trial or from Time Trial to Road racing? How important are sponsors to our clubs and individual drivers? This will be a presentation and a discussion… I’d like to hear from some of our members on these topics. I think this is a meeting you will enjoy.

Thanks and we’ll look forward to seeing you there. If there are 8 people interested, after the meeting, we’ll head around the corner to Frankie’s Fun Park for some carting. I’ll get our discount set up in advance.

Thanks
Ted
tedagmar@juno.com
(864) 915-5052

We plan to kick off the 2010 year with our first meeting of the year thursday night February 11th at Quaker Steak and Lube just off Woodruff Rd. next to the Harley Davidson shop. We hope to see you there and that you will bring a friend. Show them THE GARAGE DOOR THAT SWCCCR BUILT!

We will have updates on recent events, a report from Lemons, a long range calendar of events, updates from SCCA’s SEDIV Conference last weekend and doorprizes! I have asked a few members to make some special reports I am sure you will enjoy! Please come prepared to tell us about what you’ve been up to since we last met!

Meeting –  DECEMBER 10th at QUAKER STEAK AND LUBE !

SEASONS GREETINGS!
I would like to invite you to attend our DECEMBER SWCCCR meeting at Quaker Steak and Lube just off Woodruff Road beside the Harley Davidson Dealer! Eat from 6 to 7 and meet from 7 to 8:30 (although parking lot meetings have gone on until 11 to 11:30.  All  attendees are asked to bring your car and park out front on display.

We will have free desserts for all attending!

As always, we will re-cap recent motorsports events, cover all up-coming autocrosses, car shows, time trials, and road races. We’ll also have time for swap and sell so if you have items for sale or trade, bring a good description. Scott Franklin will have some updates on road racing. The Clemson Sports Car Club should have a report on their last autocross and plans for a 2010 Lemons Car Entry.

We do not plan to have a speaker this evening…it’s Christmas so we plan to hang out, have some free desserts and participate in an XBOX Competition!  FORZA 3 ….We will have steering wheel and pedals and you may enter in either the PRO Class (for heavy gamers) or the AMATEUR Class (for beginners and old guys like me.) Trophies will be awarded for top finisher in EACH class.  If you have not tried FORZA on an XBOX,  it may give you some ideas for Christmas.

We’ll look forward to having you with us. We are advertising in the area for this meeting so come early and bring a friend… we have room!. Thanks!

Ted Theodore    tedagmar@juno.com   (864) 915-5052

The South West Chapter of Central Carolinas will hold their monthly meeting October 15th at Quaker Steak and Lube on Garlington Road just off Woodruff Road. In case you have not heard, we told the management how displeased we were with the background noise and that we would not be meeting there again. The managers met with owners and they have constructed a partition to close off the area so we can have a good atmosphere for our meetings. This should be in place for our Thursday night meeting. We will also have an area out front for our members to park…. come show your car! http://www.quakersteakandlube.com/Greenville_SC/

The Clemson Sports Car Club plans to bring their Mazda RX7 club car (known for many years as CC1) to display out front. This car has been used for many years to help students to build skills autocrossing and a number of past grads have continued on in racing with what they learned. The car had been down for a while but working with Steve Hampton of CHAP Racing, they have the car back running again. If you can make it to the autocross this Sunday at BMW, you should see it in competition there!

We will eat from 6 to 7 and start our meeting at 7. We will recap recent events, upcoming schedule of Southeastern motorsports events, trade and sale and our speakers for the evening.

Our topic for the evening will be :

“Preparation - a key to success in motor sports competition”
Our speaker will be one many of you know Hap Waldrop of Acme Speedshop. Hap has raced British cars in the SCCA for over 20 years competing at the top level of amateur road racing. We recently spoke about some of his experiences and I think you will be in for a real treat. If you have the opportunity, take a look at his website
http://www.acmespeedshop.com

EUROFEST - I am in need of some additional volunteers to help out with the BMW charity autocross on Saturday, October 17th. Drivers pay $30 to have the opportunity to run BMW M3s on the course we set up. We need people in the morning and in the afternoon sessions. In return for working, we will get you some runs on the course in the BMWs. I would prefer no one work no more than 1 session so we all have the chance to enjoy the car show as well. Please contact me if you are willing to work and whether you are available for morning or afternoon shift. Thanks for your help. The money raised through this goes DIRECTLY to Red Cross relief efforts right here in the Upstate.

We look forward to a great meeting and hope to see you there! Please call if you need directions or have questions! Thanks
Ted Theodore
(864) 915-5052
tedagmar@juno.com

The SouthWest Chapter of Central Carolinas will hold their monthly meeting September 17th at a new location - Quaker Steak and Lube on Garlington Road just off Woodruff Road.

http://www.quakersteakandlube.com/Greenville_SC/

Along with a great automotive theme, Quaker Steak recently catered BBQ to one of our Solo events at Black Lake and did a great job. They assured me they will have enough waiters/staff and a quiet area for us to hold our meeting.

We will eat from 6 to 7 and start our meeting at 7. We will recap recent events, upcoming schedule of Southeastern motorsports events, trade and sale and our speakers for the evening.

Our vendor for the evening will be Sports Cars Etc. and Henry Payne will tell us a little about his business and Dread Naught Racing. Henry has been an autocrosser, a hillclimber and a road racer for many years. I well remember him driving his Blakely to Charlotte for Solo IIs and whipping us constantly. Henry made the swap from British cars to Miatas a few years back! We’ll look forward to hearing from him and how he’s healing up from knee surgery.

Our topic for the evening will be EUROFEST! In honor of this, we are asking everyone to bring their European cars for parking out front in a special section at Quaker Steak parking lot. We hope to see a wide variety from British to Italian cars!

Barry Harms is one of the car judges that assists in managing the EUROFEST Auto Festival. He will be speaking to us about the history of Eurofest, the plans for this years event (Oct. 16-18) and the marques being honored this year. If you haven’t been to Eurofest, this is one of the largest European car shows held in the south and it’s close… it’s held at the Zentrum at the BMW Manufacturing facilities in Spartanburg, SC!

http://www.euroautofestival.com

We look forward to a great meeting and hope to see you there! Please call if you need directions or have questions! Thanks
Ted Theodore
(864) 915-5052
tedagmar@juno.com

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I would like to invite you to attend our July SWCCCR meeting!

We will be meeting at a new location :

Chief’s Wings and Firewater at 723 Congaree Road behind Haywood Mall. The manager has arranged for us to have a private quiet area in the corner with accordion walls. Nice!

We will have several cars on display in front of Chiefs including :
John Finger’s Reynard Hillclimb car which will debut at the August 1st Eagle’s Nest  Hillclimb
Ted Theodore’s Bandit AR-1 which won the last Chimney Rock Hillclimb in 1995
Joel  Barber’s Porsche 944 Spec Racer

Dinner will be from 6 to 7 (I highly recommend the Teriyaki Wings) and we will meet from 7 to 8:45. I think you will find a diverse menu with wings, shrimp, steaks, sandwiches, nachos, wraps,salads, and some great desserts!   http://chiefsonline.com  Something for everyone!

We will re-cap recent motorsports events, cover all up-coming autocrosses, car shows, time trials, hillclimbs and road races. We’ll cover the recent SC Region Time Trial at Roebling Road, plans for the 2 day autocross at Michelin’s Black Lake July 18th and 19th as well as the Eagle’s Nest Hillclimb in Banner Elk, NC on August 1st and 2nd. (We’ll see if we can get John to tell us a little about his new car.) We’ll have some news on the Eurofest Car Show to be held at BMW manufacturing in Spartanburg on October 16 - 18. Dwayne Mosley will be on hand to cover his recent success driving in the One Lap of America event! We’ll also have time for swap and sell so if you have items for sale or trade, bring
a good description.

ROLL BARS!

BY YOUR REQUEST, our speaker for the meeting will be Steve Eckerich (Regional executive of the Central Carolina’s Region of the SCCA) and the topic will be roll cages.  Steve will be explaining rules on Time Trial and Road Racing cages and what to look for when purchasing a race car. After his presentation, we’ll have a brief panel discussion on roll bars, kits, protective foam padding,  fabrication welds, safety  and SCCA vs NASA rules with Steve,  Joel Barber of Barber Raceworks of Greenville and Steve Hampton of Chap Racing in Piedmont. We will have question answer time at the end.  Whether you are thinking about buying a car in the future, building a car up now,  worrying about meeting tech requirement or concerned with safety, this discussion can save you time, money and maybe more.

We’ll look forward to having you with us. We are advertising in the Greenville News and other media so come early and bring a friend… we have room for 60+ people at Chiefs and alcohol will be available.
Hope you like our new format and location. Thanks!

Ted Theodore    tedagmar@juno.com   (864) 915-5052

I would like to invite everyone to the SWCCCR meeting this thursday night June 18th at the Ryan’s on Lauren’s Road in Greenville, SC. We will eat from 6 to 7 and at 7, we’ll cover results from recent events and schedules for upcoming motorsports events in the southeast. We will recap the go kart racing from last months event, recent SE autocross events, CCR Memorial Road Races May 23 and 24 and CMP SCR Time Trial on the 25th. We will also talk some about planning for upcoming events like the Eagle’s Nest Hillclimb August 1st and 2nd. (Start has changed and it will make it more spectator friendly and more challenging for drivers.) Be sure to bring info on any items you have for sale or trade.

Meeting topic - Jim Hall’s CHAPARRALS

When I was a kid, my dad took me to see races at Watkins Glen and VIR (yeah…the OLD VIR) and I saw Jim Hall and Mark Donahue run. I fell in love with Chaparrals and things with wings. After that, ALL my slot cars had to be number 66 brown and white Chaparrals with a red COX sticker on the side. Thursday night’s meeting is Chaparral night. I recently uncovered a couple of videos I think you will really enjoy. Jim Hall did some really unique things during this time period with experiments in aerodynamics and downforce. Some failed and some worked like magic. During the dinner portion of our meeting (6 to 7) , I will be playing the video ” Salute to Chaparral” from Monterrey Historic Races of 2005. This video shows interviews with Jim Hall, Brian Redman and Vic Elford and detailed descriptions and video of all the models including the super sucker J2 and the banana car. If you have never seen the flipper wing cars race, you will see why they dominated (and why SCCA outlawed them.) After our regular meeting, I’ll play a video showing 1966 and 1967 races at Monterrey and Elkhart Lake. This is actual footage including Monza starts with drivers running to their cars to start the race… .drivers like Jim Hall, Richie Ginther, Phil Hill, Charlie Hayes and many others. You will be amazed at the cars at that time, the accidents, the little safety gear and the close racing. If we have time, I also have a video of Phil Hill in 1995 sharing slides and his racing memories from driving for Ferrari, when safety belts were introduced (he said “I thought they were crazy! Why would I want to stay IN the car if the car was wrecking!”), how Fangio was kidnapped in Cuba during an F1 race and many other interesting historical race experiences. Great stuff.

We hope to see you there. Let me know if you have questions or need directions. Thanks again for your participation in SCCA and the South West Chapter of Central Carolina’s Region!

Ted Theodore
tedagmar@juno.com

(864) 915-5052