The Lime Rock Park display~
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:02 pmWhen my Dad and I found out that LRP wanted to display the match stick building he made, I couldn't just let it sit on a green tablecloth..
I asked my Dad to make the correct starters stand and I went to work on the base, guardrails and signage..
Here it is sitting in the drivers lounge at LRP..
Both Sam Posey and Sir Stirling Moss got to see it in person and commented that it was "Brilliant" work..
Sam had taken a fall earlier in the week and his appearance at the track was too short for me to have him sign anything,
but I did have Sir Stirling sign the #722 SLR from the display for me~
The Posey cars represented are the familiar 1970 Trans Am Challenger, the BMW that Sam co-drove to a 4th in class at the 1976 24 hours of LeMans
and the #1 Peter Revson Mustang. Why Revson’s car? Because the Trans Am race at Lime Rock fell on the same weekend as the Indy 500 in 1969.
Peter was in Indy, and Sam Posey, as a substitute driver, took the Revson boss Mustang to victory lane that day.
The Stirling Moss cars include the #19 1955 Mercedes SLR that was leading the 24 hours of LeMans when Mercedes pulled out mid race due to the earlier
tragic accident that resulted in spectator fatalities. Also from 1955, the #722 SLR that Stirling drove to victory at the famous Mille Miglia race in Italy..
Why #722? His start time was 7:22am in that race. The final Moss car is the 1957 Vanwall F1 machine that he drove to 3 victories in 5 Grand Prix starts that year.
The building is now safely home and back on my slot track, awaiting the running of the Porsche RSR IROC proxy race :D
ps. The folks at LRP were great to us and gave us all access passes.. we stayed there in our RV for 6 days prior to and during the vintage race festival.
Here's the real building and my kids enjoying the starters stand~
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I asked my Dad to make the correct starters stand and I went to work on the base, guardrails and signage..
Here it is sitting in the drivers lounge at LRP..
Both Sam Posey and Sir Stirling Moss got to see it in person and commented that it was "Brilliant" work..
Sam had taken a fall earlier in the week and his appearance at the track was too short for me to have him sign anything,
but I did have Sir Stirling sign the #722 SLR from the display for me~
The Posey cars represented are the familiar 1970 Trans Am Challenger, the BMW that Sam co-drove to a 4th in class at the 1976 24 hours of LeMans
and the #1 Peter Revson Mustang. Why Revson’s car? Because the Trans Am race at Lime Rock fell on the same weekend as the Indy 500 in 1969.
Peter was in Indy, and Sam Posey, as a substitute driver, took the Revson boss Mustang to victory lane that day.
The Stirling Moss cars include the #19 1955 Mercedes SLR that was leading the 24 hours of LeMans when Mercedes pulled out mid race due to the earlier
tragic accident that resulted in spectator fatalities. Also from 1955, the #722 SLR that Stirling drove to victory at the famous Mille Miglia race in Italy..
Why #722? His start time was 7:22am in that race. The final Moss car is the 1957 Vanwall F1 machine that he drove to 3 victories in 5 Grand Prix starts that year.
The building is now safely home and back on my slot track, awaiting the running of the Porsche RSR IROC proxy race :D
ps. The folks at LRP were great to us and gave us all access passes.. we stayed there in our RV for 6 days prior to and during the vintage race festival.
Here's the real building and my kids enjoying the starters stand~
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