some standing mile runs with him but
was visiting a road course for the very
first time. The weekend amounted
to a good shakedown run for Kelley
and we expect to see him return a few
more times this season to make a run
at Vegas.
The Classic Car Liquidators GTV
Class for pre-1990 cars and trucks saw
one its largest fields in recent history,
with 29 vehicles hitting the track,
including six Fords. It was a long haul
for many of them, but few folks in the
field came further than John McKis-
sack, who’d towed his 1966 Fairlane all
the way from San Leandro, California.
It was a good thing he towed, because a
bad combination of high compression
and low octane resulted in a burned pis-
ton. McKissack salvaged the weekend
by limping through the QA1 Autocross
on the second day, which gave him valu-
able points and a Top 20 finish in class.
EVENT I OPTIMA USCA AT DAYTONARobert Britton’s
gorgeous 1965
Fastback was
the top Ford in
the Classic Car
Liquidators
GTV class.