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The California Automobile Museum will host the Sierra Mustang Club in its Car Club Cavalcade Exhibit for the month of December. From December 3 through January 6, visitors will enjoy an array of cars from throughout the history of the original “pony car.”
The Ford Mustang, introduced on April 17, 1964, was a clever re-imagining of the Falcon compact sedan as a sporty coupe with a long list of options that allowed buyers to customize their cars as true luxury or performance machines – or both. Other manufacturers rushed to copy the Mustang’s formula, as well as its long-hood, short-deck styling, giving birth to a boom of so-called “pony cars” that peaked in the late 1960s. Over the last 47 years, the Mustang has consistently been one of America’s favorite performance cars, and its history has been marked by many exciting variations with a common basis in the original car’s winning formula. The Sierra Mustang Club will showcase cars from all eras of the model’s history in this exciting display.
The California Automobile Museum is located at 2200 Front Street, Sacramento, CA 95818. The public can contact the Museum by telephone at 916-442-6802, or visit its website at www.calautomuseum.org. The Museum is open seven days a week from 10:00am-6:00pm, and on the third Thursday of every month until 9:00pm.
The Car Club Cavalcade is a monthly exhibit at the California Automobile Museum. The Museum offers Car Club Memberships to all interested car clubs, and Car Club Members have the opportunity to feature members’ cars in the Museum for one month in the Car Club Cavalcade exhibit. More information on Museum Memberships is available at www.calautomuseum.org/html/membership.html.
The mission of the California Automobile Museum is to preserve, exhibit, and teach the story of the automobile and its influence on our lives. The Museum is a 72,000 square foot facility and has 140 to 160 cars on display. The permanent exhibit showcases vehicles in chronological order from the early 1900s to the 1980s. Other ongoing exhibits include Going Green, WUNDERCARS!, Legends of Speed, and James Dean, as well as the Car Club Cavalcade Exhibit.
The ModSpace American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patron is Saturday, Sept. 17th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. It will be shown live on ESPN3 at 1:15pm PT today and rebroadcast on Sunday, Sept. 18th at 10am PT on ESPN2.
Joey Hand from Sacramento, CA is the current points leader in the GT class and qualified on the pole along with co-driver, Dirk Müller. To read the BMW Team RLL’s report on qualifying, please click here.
The following is a report on the points battles going on in the American Le Mans Series.
The championship chases in four classes of the American Le Mans Series are beginning to come more into focus. There are 55 points available to winners in the final two rounds – 25 points at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and 30 at Road Atlanta’s Petit Le Mans. Heading into this weekend’s ModSpace American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patrón, here is how things stand…
LMP1: Dyson Racing’s runner-up finish at Baltimore combined with a fourth-place showing by Muscle Milk Aston Racing gives the Dyson team a 24-point edge over its chief rivals. Should the Dyson duo of Chris Dyson and Guy Smith earn the 25 first-place points and Muscle Milk’s Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr finish third or worse, the Dyson camp will clinch the drivers and team championship. A DNF for Muscle Milk’s Graf and Luhr also will eliminate them from Graf title contention. On such DNF at Sebring for Muscle Milk is the difference.
Mazda and Dunlop lead the engine and tire manufacturer battles, respectively, by 28 points over Aston Martin and Michelin.
GT: BMW Team RLL’s Joey Hand and Dirk Müller added to their lead in the drivers’ championship with a runner-up GT finish at Baltimore. They now lead Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Jan Magnussen by 25 points. BMW RLL’s other pairing of Bill Auberlen and Dirk Werner sits third, just 11 points ahead of Team Falken Tire’s Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers.
Porsche is now second in the manufacturer chase behind BMW, thanks to a win at Baltimore for Henzler and Sellers. BMW leads its German counterpart by 26 points and Chevrolet by 30 points. Dunlop is just four points up on Michelin among tire companies.
LMPC: This currently is the closest of the bunch. Genoa Racing’s Eric Lux moved to within one point of CORE autosport’s Ricardo Gonzalez and Gunnar Jeannette following the Baltimore race following Genoa’s runner-up finish there. A podium for the sister CORE entry of John Bennett and Frankie Montecalvo gave CORE a two-point lead in the team standings.
