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January 27th, 2010 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News, For Sale, Racing Ephemera, Racing Gear
This is a big day for The Chicane. We finally get to let you in on something that we’ve been dying to share on the blog for some time.
After months of work, we’re finally ready to debut the first pieces of a line of vintage racing inspired clothing. Chicane Trackwear will ultimately include a variety of garments and accessories inspired by our love of vintage racing: everything from our favorite racing models, marques, teams, races, and eras of auto racing history.
The first items are two t-shirts from two very different parts of our vintage racing heritage. The Riverside International Raceway t-shirt is inspired by the early races held at the track in 1957. There are a lot of tracks that we’d like to feature on t-shirt graphics. But for our first, we though it was important to celebrate one of America’s great Lost Tracks. It would be obvious to have a Green Hell shirt, or a Circuito Palermo (and I suspect we’ll have one of each eventually), but celebrating America’s sportscar racing heritage has always been an important part of The Chicane, and there’s not many tracks more missed than Riverside.
The Yamura Motors t-shirt is our way of showing appreciation for the fictional Formula 1 team at the heart of John Frankenheimer’s legendary film, Grand Prix. In a few frames of the movie, you can see the Yamura pit crews gathering around Pete Aron’s machine wearing coveralls with a graphic very like this one. Most people might not understand it; but when someone does, it’s magic.
Available exclusively from the newly launched—and soon to expand—Chicane Shop.
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December 17th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
The 2010 Vintage racing season is going to be packed! We’ve recently added dates for SOVREN and the Ferrari Historic Challenge. Keep an eye on the Vintage Racing Calendar for more as race groups continue to release their event schedules.
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October 11th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News, Video
We’re putting out a call to vintage racers around the world. The Chicane wants to showcase your on-board videos. We’re eager to serve as an informational hub for vintage racers, and that includes seeing and familiarizing the community with tracks around the U.S. and around the globe from the perspective of our own.
If you have a stockpile of videos or film cans to share, a youtube, vimeo or other source online video of yours to point out, or information on how to get your videos to us for publication (and stories of the events they capture!), drop an email to community@thechicaneblog.com or leave a message below in the comments.
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August 6th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
Whew! The newly redesigned Chicane is ready for service, and is the first of a few exciting developments. More on that to come. In the meantime, enjoy the new site.
We’ll be working out the inevitable kinks that come along with any major site launch, but by and large all is working.
How do you like that random header image? pretty neat, eh?
(hit refresh a few times to see a selection of the photos I’ve been shooting at vintage events)
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June 15th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
The Chicane has been in the garage the past few days while we’ve been performing a fairly exhaustive server upgrade. Hopefully what this will mean for you is that the site will be more reliably available and quicker. There are a handful of exciting developments going on in our corner of the web in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for more.
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May 24th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
I’m very pleased to say that Cliff Reuter has joined The Chicane as a regular contributor. I’m sure most of you are familiar with Cliff’s many sportscar sites, including FerrariExperts.com and his namesake CliffReuter.com. Of course, I’m particularly taken with his masterful compendium of knowledge of Italy’s “Little Jewels” on Etceterini.com.
Etceterini’s vast information on these small Italian sportscar manufacturers, as well as the fantastic archives of 1950s and 1960s SCCA race provide a wealth of history of American sportscar racing. Of course, Cliff’s own roots in sportscar racing dig quite deep, having grown up among his father, Jack Reuter’s, marvelous string of Bandinis, Ferraris and Maseratis. Cliff has built a fantastic collection of information drawn from his and his father’s archives of racing information. These deep treasure troves of information have been a constant reference point for The Chicane, and I’m very happy that Cliff will be lending his voice here as well.
Welcome to The Chicane, Cliff.
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March 18th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
I’m planning my first trip to London in May for one of the Specials reunion shows (YES!). Anyone have suggestions for spots in London that a vintage racing fan shouldn’t miss. So far I’ve only made plans to visit MotorBooks, but there has to be more shops, musuems, showrooms and the like that I should be taking in. If you have any suggestions, please share them in the comments.
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February 3rd, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
The Vintage Racing Calendar has been updated to include the recently released HSR West schedule. There’s not much time to plan as, unbelievably to this Mid-Westerner, the racing season starts this weekend!
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January 9th, 2009 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News, Event
Something I’ve been toying with since I started The Chicane is assembling a central calendar of vintage racing events in one place, regardless of sanctioning body. After a few fits and starts over the past few days, I finally have a start to the calendar live on the Vintage Racing Calendar page. This is, of course, just the beginning and I know that I’ve missed a bunch of events in the States, omitted some organizing bodies entirely, and have nothing listed overseas. This will all be remedied in the future.
What is there, however, is pretty detailed; with track information, start dates, sanctioning body, and maps to the tracks. I hope to add additional features such as featured marque and other details soon.
Look for the calendar to grow and hopefully help you plan your season; be it as a driver or spectator.
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December 8th, 2008 | Published by Harlo in Chicane News
Wow! Many thanks to Ryan Cochran over at the Jalopy Journal for linking to The Chicane today. As a longtime reader of the Jalopy Journal, Jockey Journal and the Garage Journal, it was quite a thrill to see the post this morning.
Here’s a few posts that H.A.M.B. readers might find particularly interesting.
The “Lost Tracks” series: An ongoing look at the sadly defunct palaces of America’s road racing glory days—before lawyers decided everything is someone’s fault.
The 1947 Cisitalia D46: Surely any fan of American roadsters can find kinship with Italy’s immediate post-war monoposto racers.
A Naked Lotus Formula 2: With the body panels removed, it’s easy to see that the same thrill that inspires the DIY attitude can build a world championship formula car.
and for your headphones, The Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix: Phil Hill narrates this LP recorded as research for John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece, “Grand Prix”.
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This is a big day for The Chicane. We finally get to let you in on something that we’ve been dying to share on the blog for some time.
The Yamura Motors t-shirt is our way of showing appreciation for the fictional Formula 1 team at the heart of John Frankenheimer’s legendary film, Grand Prix. In a few frames of the movie, you can see the Yamura pit crews gathering around Pete Aron’s machine wearing coveralls with a graphic very like this one. Most people might not understand it; but when someone does, it’s magic.
