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Portland International Raceway, Oregon USA August 1988 - Sports Cars & Coupe
Mainly English, with a couple of Anglo-Americans, Italians and a German for good measure.
Interesting lots of Yellow cars, Belgium's International racing colour
as always a " A-Healey " in there, just a little one.
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Europeans - unsure what the yellow car is possibility Italian
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Cobra's versus the Europeans.. Ferrari
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another Cobra versus a Porsche .. close running
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still close
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Next ; American Iron and a mix of Sports Saloon and Grand Prix.
Thanks Ken H, they didn't seem to fit in my Laguna Seca thread, and from a later trip to the USA.
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Portland International Raceway, Oregon USA August 1988 - mix of cars
American iron, a Bellisimo Italiano, a Topolino of sorts a Frenchie and a mix of sports cars.
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a beautiful Alfa Romeo
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These are a favourite of mine Fiat Abarth, with the spare in the front bumper and the open engine cover. NSU did it too with the 1000 racer the open engine cover.
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Talbot Lago, I think .. or is it Lago Talbot ..
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Special versus Lister versus Lotus - Lister out wide
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Portland International Raceway, Oregon USA August 1988 the last pics
The Lister, a little Italian single seater, and a Healey.
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in the pits.
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dashboard / cockpit of the Monoposto, above
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My thanks to Wayne Brown, John Wilson and others from the Oregon Healey Club, stayed with various members of the club and even had the use of a Healey 3000, did 2000 miles in around 2 weeks, and even borrowed a riverside cottage / bach for a night.. a great trip second only [ for the car stuff ] to my trip in 1982 with BMC BOY and others..
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Portland International Raceway, Oregon USA August 1988 Dick Mayor & getting there !
Found a couple more pictures from the day - they appeared in the Austin Healey Club New Zealand's magazine -
" Healey - Torque ", in early 1989 and were still attached to the draft sheets for the magazine, which were returned to me some time later
Richard " Dick on Wheels " Mayor was indeed there in a very stripped down Healey, no headlights, screen, only a rollbar for protection, not a cage.
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Getting to the track that day was a mission, Wayne Browns Healey 3000, ran out of fuel, fortunately we were travelling with others and a friend in the Aston Martin [ I think a guy called John Lowsley, from Vancouver, Washington - the twin city to Portland over the border - helped by pumping fuel from his carbs into a beer can - several times, to get the Healey going again, we got to the track, obviously and all was well.
here is the scene as it happened.
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As mentioned as well as the hospitality of the Oregon Healey people, there was also the loan of a car, here is that Healey at the rear, with an NZ number plate on the front, and the Oregon plate on the rear. We never got stopped and I guess the funny accents, of foreigners, and in an old car, we would probably have been OK.
The car in front is the Wayne and Sylvia Brown 3000 that broke down, the John Wilson [ rear car ] was a barn find in Arizona, which John had purchased to restore, but was such a good runner, just used it.
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