A new IMSA blog

I have just created a new IMSA blog three months ago. This site is dedicated to the IMSA Camel GT Challenge, a series created by John Bishop in 1969. This site is a tribute to John Bishop, and is clearly made to fill a big "hole" in the internet auto racing memorabilia. As we can find no serious material on the subject, I have decided to do it myself. It features stories, results, technical issues, pics, memories and more. I do have a lot of documentation about it and many drivers did contribute. Comments are welcome. I want to make it some kind of reference for the fans.

Please visit my blog here : http://alex62.typepad.com/imsablog

Thank you

Alexis Gousseau

Dear Alexis Gousseau,

Congratulation, your site is very good!

Dear Alex,

Just thought you'd like to know that, four years ago, I wrote and published a book called "Racing with a Difference-The History of IMSA" (Gryfon Publishers, 2002). It's long been sold out but you may find it useful if you can find a second hand example.

I took the GTP content and used that in our current offering: "Golden Era-The History of GRoup C and IMSA GTP" (Gryfon Publiers, 2006). This also may help you.

Kind regards,

John Starkey

May I ask if this blog and the subsequent website are still active or on web-archive? They were pieces of art.

The OP didn't even have the courtesy to ever check back after one, self-serving post.

Edited by E1pix, 14 January 2019 - 21:53.

The OP didn't even have the courtesy to ever check back after one, self-serving post.

It's only going on 13 years. Maybe he's just been busy......

I found it on web-archive. Believe me it's worth a good read.

 

https://web.archive....x62.typepad.com

 

https://web.archive....msahistory.com/

Yes, complete with uncredited photos and asking for donations.

Do we really want to promote people like this? Maybe I should steal his text, add my photos, and ask everyone here to send money to cover my extraordinary efforts of passion.

Yes, complete with uncredited photos and asking for donations.

Do we really want to promote people like this? Maybe I should steal his text, add my photos, and ask everyone here to send money to cover my extraordinary efforts of passion.

 

I think the text should be promoted, because I spoke with Mr.Gousseau and he did, effectively, a good job. As he was a complete amateur, committed a lot of mistakes, as I did too, but he was planning something bigger. Hoever, not everyone can take that step, and what remained is worth a read. I don't know what he's doing now, as I never spoke to the man anymore, but I remember his work was interesting on the day.

You just don't get it.

You just don't get it.

 

I have no interest at all on the project, just syaing it's well-written and researched.