{"id":492912,"date":"2013-02-01T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=21217"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:50:03","slug":"historic-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/historic-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an \u201cAncien Pilotes\u201d demonstration race in the late 1960s.\u00a0Photo: J Pearson Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aspiration and reality are often diametrically opposed. Dreams, however, do come true every time an amateur driver clambers aboard, or wriggles into, a Grand Prix car once raced by a sporting icon. Such is the unbridled joy evoked in the senses of competitors who unleash their heroes\u2019 magnificent bolides in wheel-to-wheel combat on some of the world\u2019s greatest circuits.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this more prevalent than for members of the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association (HGPCA), which since 1979 has provided the racing platform for a sensational spectrum of machines spanning five decades. Its events showcase the development of these technological tours de force (and the odd blind alley!) from artisan-crafted two-seater Bugattis of the 1920s to spindly rear-engined \u201ccigar tubes\u201d of the early-\u201960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n