Frank Grimaldi
1968 Chevy Camaro
Promo Video from Thompson Speedway June 2014
Entire race from the in car camera
History:
HRG5 #80
SCCA #72-AS-05
SVRA# 6-0204
Veteran of over 70 SCCA races and, at this writing, 58 vintage/historic races.
Purchased new by Herb French( MA) who immediately entered it in the 1968 Bryar TransAm for Skip Barber who said " It was the worst car I ever drove ! " but finished 7th (#56). John Fuller (CT) found it on a used car lot in 1968 and Len Greenhalgh (#37) raced it in Fuller's Viper Racing Team. Purchased in 1970 and raced (#87 & #80) by Frank Grimaldi(MA) until sold to Jim Briody (MD) in 1975 and raced in his Pumpkin Racing Team (#24) through 1979. `Returned home' to Grimaldi just before a pending sale to New Zealand.
Competition Record:
National Championship Series Results :
-National Champion SCCA Northeast Division:
1973 Grimaldi
1977 & 1979 Briody
-Other SCCA National Series Results:
6th 1969 Greenhalgh, 5th 1970 Greenhalgh, 7th 1974 Grimaldi, 3rd 1975 Briody, 2nd 1976 Briody,
SCCA Champion Spark Plug
Road Race of Champions (SCCA Runoffs):
Grimaldi:
1973 - 4th
Briody:
1975 - 7th
1976 - 8th
1977 - 7th
1979 - 9th
SCCA Trans Am Races:
1968 Bryar,7th,Barber, 1972 Limerock,DNS, Grimaldi, 1975 Pocono,postponed,Briody, 1976 Pocono,DNF, Briody
Regional Championship Series results:
-SCCA North Atlantic Road Racing Championship (NARRC):
2nd 1971 & 1972, Grimaldi
-Regional Champion SCCA New England Region: 1969 Greenhalgh
-Other SCCA Regional Series Results: 2nd 1971 & 1972, Grimaldi
Fun Facts:
- Fifth SCCA `brass tag' A-Sedan ( #72-AS-05) issued at 1972 Limerock TransAm. Roy Woods Javelin #1 has `brass tag( #72-AS-03). He sent one legal car through Lime Rock tech twice to obtain brass tag for a second, illegal, Javelin. SCCA quickly discontinued using brass tags.
- Jim Briody holds the `eternal' Bryar A-Sedan track record ( 1:16.9 , April 1979 ). Later AS became GT1 and Bryar was reconfigured to NHMS.
- Briody holds unofficial Road Atlanta A-Sedan `altitude record ` in a 1979 practice crash.
- Grimaldi holds unofficial Lime Rock Vintage `altitude/rollover record' in Labor Day 1996 warm up.
Defying expert advice, and common sense, Grimaldi actually restored the total wreck in time to run Lime Rock Vintage TransAm race Labor Day 1997.
