DANTZIG PAGES
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Welcome to the
Dantzig Racing web pages.
Here, you will find lots of information on our
race cars, our team members and the tracks we visit.
Dantzig Racing is one way we promote our business within the motorsports industry.
Our crew is made up of friends and associates who enjoy the excitement of club racing. It's a little like camping... with cooler toys!
Check out the new
Calendar Pages to see the season schedule.
Our Team Biographies will give you a little insight into the people who go racing with us.
See all the latest
Race Reports
2005 Lime Rock PCA
Club Race REPORT
2005 Brian Redman
Jefferson 500 REPORT
2005 Rolex
Vintage Festival REPORT
2006 Brian Redman
Jefferson 500 REPORT
Archives
SPEED CHANNEL
Touring Cars at
Lime Rock 2001
2002 Lime Rock PCA
Club Race REPORT!
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DANTZIG RACING
We Go Vintage
Racing!
Old racers don't fade away... they just go vintage racing.
Over the last few years, we've become more fascinated with the vintage aspects of club racing. Jol and his friends had been attending vintage races for quite some time, so it wasn't such a leap to imagine our 1976 Porsche 914 competing in such events.
Interestingly, a parade of '70s vintage cars had begun to fill the shop space at Dantzig Design, beginning with Carla's chartreuse '73 Porsche 911 RS. Not to be outdone, Jol snagged a '73 RS in white. This rare and collectible car, (number 1043 of 1590) was fitted with a roll bar and had been club raced in the 1980s. Jol envisioned driving to PCA and vintage events, competing and then driving home in the same car. However, before that daydream became reality something entirely new caught his eye.
As a teenager, Jol had watched the Can-Am and other series with his father and photographed the famous cars of the period. Father and son strolled the paddocks of Road America Sebring and Watkins Glen,
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occasionally scoring an invitation to sit in one of the race cars. "I remember sitting in John Surtees' Lola T-70," he recalls. "I thought that it was the coolest thing on earth—better than a fighter jet."
The fire-breathing monster Can-Am cars were exciting and fierce, but it was the 2-liter prototypes that Jol was drawn to. These cars had a finesse and agility that was beautiful in a different way. The fact that they were almost as fast as the big cars made them Goliath-killer underdogs in Jol's eyes.
With this as a backdrop, it isn't hard to understand how a 1973 Chevron B23 wound up in the Dantzig driveway one spring day.
The 1973 Chevron B23
Jol and his good friend Randy Stenson (who flew in from Chicago just to help!) had transported this piece of automotive history up from a broker in New York.
"I'm in the deep end of the pool now," Dantzig explains. "It was a done deal before I could even think about it, so I'm going ahead with my dream"
Under the care and tutelage of Lee Chapman, Jol is running the Chevron at selected vintage events.
See the reports, and come say hello at the track.
Next: Lime Rock Vintage Festival.
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