Grand Prix Festival at the Glen Friday

[jscaptura1]

The annual Grand Prix vintage festival is tomorrow in Watkins Glen. This runs in combination with the vintage races at WGI for the weekend. For those who have not attended, this vintage race is usually the largest gathering of vintage race cars in the US. The vintage festival in the town is a great time. There are many nice old roads cars that take tours of the track during the day, then in the evening the original 6.6 mike course is closed. About 150 cars are selected & driven to town from the track and do a re-enactment/demonstration run of 2-3 laps. The cars are brought down from the track at around 4-5 pm lined up on Franklin St. and spectators get to see the cars up close. A great time! The featured marque this year is the Mustang, so I will have my 68 out for the festival this weekend. I usually have one of the only '02's there. There are a few but not many. I will try to post some pictures after the festival.

[madpaddler]

Post some pics if you can, I from Horseheads just up the road and it has been years since I have been to the Glen.

[madpaddler]

Post some pics if you can, I from Horseheads just up the road and it has been years since I have been to the Glen.

[jscaptura1]

I live in Horseheads now but my family is still in the Glen so I am there often. My sister lives on the original track on the long uphill stretch behind the Seneca Lodge & we watch the re-enactments from there, it is a blast because some of the cars really get moving up that hill. I will post what I can this weekend.

[madpaddler]

That is very cool, My Grandfather had a farm on top of Catlin Hill I could see the cars coming around turn 3 when I was on the farm...wish I was there, almost made the trip up to see my Mom & Dad and would have been there this weekend but plans changed

[tdk930]

It was an awesome trip. I watched the race at the tip of the boot. Spent some time at the twisted rooster and savoy too. Fun weekend. I hope to get my 2002 there next year.