Big new racing event at Riverside museum

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Vintage Sedan Racers Group

eNews May 2012

HSR-West and the Riverside International Auto Museum Join Forces for a Major Vintage Weekend

This years HSR-West Southern California Historic Sportscar Festival is bigger than ever and the Tribute to John Morton at the Riverside International Auto Museum Friday night of the same weekend will make for a "don't miss" weekend. It looks like there is going to be one of the largest turnouts of 2.5/B-Sedan cars in many years for this event so get your entry in as soon as possible. For more on what is happening at the Museum, Les Cannaday sent us the following information:

To all you fans out there with Datsun or Nissan Race cars or just fans of racing in general I am very proud to be able to tell everyone finally about the Legends of Datsun/Nissan racing event hosted by the Riverside International Automotive Museum and put on with help of the Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG). The Museum will be honoring John Morton for his incredible racing career. We have 2 nights at The Riverside museum on June 21-22 to spend the evening with a wide variety of people that raced, built or sold racing parts from the 60's through the early 2000's. The guest list includes famous teams and independent racers from all areas and all types of road racing. I cannot possibly list all the people but you can count on there being many of the BRE team and a bunch of the guys from Electramotive, NPTI and many of the privateers. We will have some panel discussions as well as some videos and a catered dinner on Friday evening with a bar. Adam Carolla will be there with a few of his historic Datsun Race cars. If this part of the event was not enough we also have 3 days of vintage racing tied in at the local California Speedway with the big summer event with HSR West racing and we will have a large B-sedan/Trans-Am race as well as an all Datsun race for the rest of the cars. We don't have all the details on the track event entry costs for spectators yet but we are trying to work out a way to lower the cost at the track.

We will have limited seats for the Museum event. We are encouraging participants to bring items for the charity auction and hopefully something so we can create a permanent display of the rich history of Nissan at Riverside Raceway we will have a bunch of Datsun Race cars to enjoy and a very enjoyable weekend of events. John Morton will be driving a 510 at the track event on Sat and Sunday. Please go to

www.LegendsofRiverside.com/Tribute

to purchase tickets and follow the list of invitees as we post them. By the way the charities we are helping are the Boys Republic which is Chad McQueens efforts to help at risk youth and the Paralyzed Veterans of America San Diego chapter which has a motorsports program that one of our B-sedan racers Duane Norman is the head of their efforts.

Thank you all and look forward to seeing many of you at the events.

Les Cannaday