Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

[Vinnie P.]

Link provided by Member # 14...Doc McCagh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiMAGUakRQ

[Mark F.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Very Cool! thanks Mike and Vinnie.

I remember seeing Mike hurtling around a Cumberland airport track (abandoned?) in his Maryland Missile in 2004 when PTSC did a road trip down to Mike's Farm. What a place that is! - more Corvettes than you could shake a stick at - plus antique cars and other makes, too! Talk about Garage envy...I had it bad, man!

[Mike M.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

come back anytime u r in the area mark. mike

[Brian M.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Outstanding. Thank You

[David G.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Thanks, Mike and Vinnie. I suspect many of those cars ended up on used car lots and
the history was lost to time.
The turkey farmer in the bib overhauls seemed to be enjoying himself. 😁

[David G.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Thanks, Mike and Vinnie. I suspect many of those cars ended up on used car lots and
the history was lost to time.
The turkey farmer in the bib overhauls seemed to be enjoying himself. 😁

[Mark S.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

What a wonderful slice of history!

[George J.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Great videos. Thanks for posting!

[Duke W.]

Re: Vintage Video of 1957 Corvettes SCCA race. Cumberland, MD

Interesting video and great narration by Mike. I noticed that quite a few cars didn't have roll bars and those that did looked pretty spindly. I can't recall when SCCA required rollover protection, over and above what the production design offered, if any. Serious injuries and deaths were pretty common back then, both in professional and amateur races.

Circa 1977 when I started racing a TR-3 in SCCA E-production I got black flagged (during a practice session) because the top of my helmet was a little higher than the roll bar. I had previously raised the rear of the seat a bit and had to put it back in the original position.

Safety had come a long way in those 20 years, and it's come a long way since. There was a fatality at Riverside in a race I was in back then and another in the first Silver State Classic Challenge I entered in 1989.

I promised my mom on her death bed in 1993 that I wouldn't die in a car and "retired" circa 1999. Nowadays I won't ever drive on freeways!

Duke