Vintage Racer Group (VRG)-Watkins Glen'08

On-board camera-N. McCabe-1967 Austin-Healey Sprite. Vintage Racer Group (VRG) at Watkins Glen-2008.
My Spridget was suffering from a Perfect Storm of massive manifold vacuum leak (not easy to fix on this particular car), ignition misfire and a sticky carb float. Sometimes the car would flood at speed (requiring me to shut off the fuel pump at certain points) while other times I worried that the lean misfire would burn a valve. Overall, the car made raspy, farty sounds the entire weekend. It soldiered on until the latter part of the Sunday enduro when a throttle cable partly severed, leaving me with about 20% throttle opening. I could have fixed it, but it was late in the day and I had an 8:00 class the next day anyway.....
Still, the car (and me) survived unscathed and the "fixes" are all pretty simple.
It was a great weekend with gorgeous weather and a great group of folks. Looking forward to 2009!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• vrg
• sprite
• midget
• spridget
• watkins
• glen
• vintage
• race

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It could have been worse and not been able to run like some others. You did well with what was going on. Was a lot warmer last year. I see you had some different camera positions this season.