NVRA Vintage Racers to Invade Peach State High Banks
The National Vintage Racing Association's "Vintage Thunder" Racing Series will highlight the Peach State Speedway on the next upcoming scheduled event. The first two events on the NVRA schedule have averaged 30 cars fields, and some exciting racing action.
The NVRA cars are a throw-back to cars of yesterday. You will see some pictures here of various cars that compete in the series. The NVRA is a non-profit organization of owners and drivers of 1929-1968 vintage circle track stockcars. Entering its twelfth year, the NVRA "Vintage Thunder" Racing Series is the largest touring vintage stockcar racing series in the United States . Some of the racecars are restored originals that ran on tracks in the southeast in the '50s, '60s and '70s while others are replicas of stockcars from that era.
Over the past eleven seasons, the "Vintage Thunder" racing series has appeared at racetracks all across Alabama , South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The NVRA races about 12 times a season and has run at tracks like Oglethorpe Speedway Park, Peach State Speedway and Greenville-Pickens as well as some of the better know dirt and asphalt tracks in the southeast including Talladega Short Track, South Georgia MotorSports Park, Dixie Speedway and others. They average from 25 to 30 cars per race with members coming from NC, SC, FL, AL, TN, KY, GA and one long-time loyal member who tows from Delaware to race with the NVRA.
The "Vintage Thunder" racing series is just that, "a racing series", not a group of old racecars parading around the track. Race fans witness an authentic presentation of stockcar racing the way it use to be "back in the day."
The NVRA races five classes of vintage stockcars:
Limited Sportsman (1930-1957 bodies on factory frames and powered by flathead V-8 or inline six engines); Modified Sportsman (1930-54 bodies on factory frames and OHV V-8 engines);
Late Model Sportsman (1949 - 1968 bodies on OEM chassis with OHV V-8's)
Late Model Modified (1949 - 1968 bodies on modified frames with OHV V-8's);
and our fastest division, Modified Open (1929-1968 bodies on racing chassis), many with over 600-HP engines.
Come on out and see the action...
You won't see anything like it anywhere else.... and the cars are a sight to behold. We hope to see you at the track on April 14th.
