Old Street Scenes

[Xplantdad]

Cool picture Jim!

[mockingbird812]

Great shot Jim. What is a "street solo event"?

[StriperSS]

Street Solo would be an autocross or slalom event. I competed in those back in the late 70's, early 80's with a 67 Malibu. Got some photos somewhere.

[mockingbird812]

Looks like fun Jim. You can feel the action in that shot. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

[al8apex]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: StriperSS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Street Solo would be an autocross or slalom event. </div></div>

correct, one car on the course at a time trying for the best time

penalties for hitting cones (the course markers)

they are called autox, autocross, Solo, Solo 2, Solo II, slalom, etc

a timed event with no fender &quot; rubbin' &quot;

you turn right and left, then right, maybe left again, etc

no straight stuff per se, some straights, but basically a miniature road course timed event

[Bill Pritchard]

Jim, did they run that event on the streets of Fountain Hills? Curious as we owned a home there in FH for 11 yrs, albeit many years after that event took place.

[al8apex]

yes, for a few years ,,,, it was a blast, took my 73 Z28 there later (the 70 was in paint prison) and beat John Heinricy who drove up from the GM DPG in a &quot;new&quot; Corvette (one of the last years of the C3's). I think it one of the 1st few Solo events John attended. One of the events was sponsored by the Four Cylinder Club of Arizona, another I think by the Cactus Corvair Club, not sure if the SCCA ever ran one

Avenue of the Fountains was one of the streets, then it turned North (?)

can't remember the exact streets it used, it was West of the Fountain and West of the small business area that is there today