More 935 favorite photos

[kycarguy 935]

Originally Posted by esotoracing

Thanks for posting esoto and welcome to Pelican.

I have a tail that looks like the one on the white car. I was told it was a Brumos RSR wing. It may be this one or a spare for this car. Maybe somebody will know more about it.

I bought a bunch of RSR body parts about 20 years ago and the RSR wing was in the group. Some of the stuff was from John Paul Jr's car.

[esotoracing]

Thanks !!! well from what i can remember, the story went that it was a spare from the team of Diego Febles who had an ex peter gregg car and was still painted in those colors. The one my dads original car had was too short and at daytona the tail would slide around too much so they neede one that was a little bit extended further back. I will ask around and see if anyone here in Venezuela needs some RSR bodywork

[VZ935]

Are you Ernesto's son ? If so we have communicated before , I could use that tail on the IROC !

[esotoracing]

Yes. . .i am Ernesto's youngest son, Enrique Soto. I'm actually looking for anyone that may have photos of IMSA 1980 at Laguna Seca. Maybe someone out there has some photos of my father when he got hit from behind by a 935 and flipped his RSR several times. In that era, Laguna Seca was fast as hell ! I'm also doing some research og the last 935 to race at the 24 which was run by Hi-Tech Racing (formerly T&R Racing). They bought Pepe romeros car which started its life as a MOMO 935 in 1979 (chassis 930 990 0032)

[esotoracing]

Yes. . .i am Ernesto's youngest son, Enrique Soto. I'm actually looking for anyone that may have photos of IMSA 1980 at Laguna Seca. Maybe someone out there has some photos of my father when he got hit from behind by a 935 and flipped his RSR several times. In that era, Laguna Seca was fast as hell ! I'm also doing some research on the last 935 to race at the 24 which was run by Hi-Tech Racing in 86 (formerly T&R Racing). They bought Pepe romeros car which started its life as a MOMO 935 in 1979 (chassis 930 990 0032)

[URY914]

[VZ935]

Originally Posted by esotoracing

Yes. . .i am Ernesto's youngest son, Enrique Soto. I'm actually looking for anyone that may have photos of IMSA 1980 at Laguna Seca. Maybe someone out there has some photos of my father when he got hit from behind by a 935 and flipped his RSR several times. In that era, Laguna Seca was fast as hell ! I'm also doing some research og the last 935 to race at the 24 which was run by Hi-Tech Racing (formerly T&R Racing). They bought Pepe romeros car which started its life as a MOMO 935 in 1979 (chassis 930 990 0032)

Enrique ,
What year at the 24 are you talking about ? . http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Daytona-1986-02-02-0006.jpg . Kikos and JAMSAL aslo ran the 934 and finished third in class in that 24 hour
I know Pepe's and the Hi Tech car well . It ran a Dan McLaughlin of AIR's
M16 bodywork . The other two 935's that ran that body were my Scorpio Racing/El Salvador 935 and the Meister/Andial 935

[VZ935]

Never before seen photos of the Romero/ Hi Tech car from my private stash . I beleive the Hi Tech picture is just before the 1986 24 Hour race

[esotoracing]

Originally Posted by VZ935

Enrique ,
What year at the 24 are you talking about ? . http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1986/Daytona-1986-02-02-0006.jpg . Kikos and JAMSAL aslo ran the 934 and finished third in class in that 24 hour
I know Pepe's and the Hi Tech car well . It ran a Dan McLaughlin of AIR's
M16 bodywork . The other two 935's that ran that body were my Scorpio Racing/El Salvador 935 and the Meister/Andial 935

Thsnks for posting that photo Van, thats the one. Daytona 86, T&R made the deal to buy that car in Road America 81 when it was pink. It was the last time a 935 ran at daytona. The last 935 to ever run in IMSA was sebring 86 but i didnt go to sebring that year. That car has a poor history of DNF's from what i can see in wsrp. Do you know what ever happened to that car?

[VZ935]

the 935 at Sebring in both 1985 and 1986 is mine

[VZ935]

I haveno idea what happened to that car.... Does Tico have a son by the same name ?

[esotoracing]

Originally Posted by VZ935

I haveno idea what happened to that car.... Does Tico have a son by the same name ?

Well i just aked my mom and she remembers his son by the name of Reinaldo Almeida. i could ask Todd from Miami auto racing who does work for Bell Motorsports, he worked on my scca car, he might know. . .he was part of T&R

[esotoracing]

from IMSA yearbook 83
And sebring 83

[21blackjack]

I bought this one from Ralph Kent Cook six weeks after Rolf lost his life at Riverside in 1983, I owned it for 17 years and drove it a little in IMSA. In 1982 it had a decent finish of 5th O/A at Le Man.

[VZ935]

Jim ,
You look a lot your son in that picture! AAhhh to be young .....

You may have had it for 17 years but after you sold it we passed that car around like the village bicycle Awesome car .

[VZ935]

Jim , This is your car before it became a K3

Originally Posted by VZ935

[VZ935]

These are also the ex-Cooke Woods car pictured above that Jim owned

[donstevens]

Originally Posted by VZ935

I haveno idea what happened to that car.... Does Tico have a son by the same name ?

There is a young man named Rodney Almeida in the Miami area who is related to Tico (I think he may be a Nephew). Rodney was an istructor of mine at an SCCA school nearly 20 years ago. He won a Firehawk Touring race in 94 or so and I think he is still around. I might be able to track him down if you want to talk about 911/935 history.

Don

[retheridge]

Here's my two-cents from between 77-81.

enjoy,
Rick

[retheridge]

Here's a few from Road America. August, 1981.