Track Day Cars

You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at this month’s cover car and thought, “Hmm, I wouldn’t mind something like that!” And therein lies the predicament.

Having done numerous surveys and questionnaires of our readership, we know that you are very passionate about your cars—all nine of them! Yes, you read that right; the average VR reader owns nine cars, with six of those being comprised of not only traditional historic racecars, but also various other types of collector cars. Over the years, however, these collections seem to be including more and more of what we euphemistically call “track day cars.” What is a track day car? For us, it encompasses all the high-performance vehicles that by and large do not strictly qualify as historic or vintage race eligible.