Restoration of GOMOTS FV

[bryancohnracing]

Hello all, after many years wandering in tin top land a crazy set of events has led me to become the owner of Harry Dudley's GOMOTS FV. Its a Lynx copy in many respects, built in the early 70's, raced until 1986 and has been sitting ever since.

It'll require a total restoration of course plus safety upgrades and so on. The plan is to race it in vintage events by returning it to its original Z bar specification while still being able to run local SCCA events for fun. All goes to plan it'll be on track for the 2021 season.

Photos are of the car as found in Glenwood, IA and in my shop in Topeka.

[Matt Clark]

Random history tidbit I just found while listening to old Runoffs vids... apparently Dorsey Schroeder raced this car once as well.

It doesn't appear I can embed, but here is the link. Listen at the 16:15 mark.
https://www.scca.com/videos/2033623

[Bob L.]

Dorsey + Terry Mckenna (4-5X nat'l champ), ran it back in time. Harry was a good ol' guy.

Okie.

[E1pix]

Too cool Bryan, great to see restorations on cars with such history.

Dorsey’s a great guy and would probably be tickled to see this. I never knew what happened to McKenna, very good shoe but never went pro, as I recall anyway... but think he was the St. Louis distributor for Budweiser and may still be. I’d think he’d be in his late-60s now (?).

[Bob L.]

Terry is still in StL. doing dental work as always (including Mark Weber). He and his dad (Bill) were big hockey folks..Terry's son went pro as goalie, for Florida NHL team, a while back...not sure where he's today. Understand that Terry is the "official" score keeper for the Blues....Like Weber, think he still plays hockey with older dudes in the area.... Terry didn't own the beer place (Gray Eagle), just was sponsored by them. He did a lot of his own work on earlier cars including his D9 FF , before getting the support for fancier stuff. Really did super nice fiberglass work.....always been amazed at how many dentists raced, built their own stuff...like Hmods, DSRs, etc.. guess it was the dental training..desire to create.... You're right, he could drive, well. and likely right on age...(think we're within a couple of years of each other...he got all the trophies and ribbons, then moved on....tho...)

Okie

[bryancohnracing]

Yes, Dorsey did race GOMOTS once and if memory serves me he didn't have good things to say about it! I don't recall Terry McKenna having driven the car, I'll try and find out.

After taking the car down to a bare frame and collection of parts I can see why as it used mostly stock VW parts instead of what was the accepted normal for FV's of the era. Its not bad as much as very budget build oriented. More photos to come, other racing projects in the shop have gotten in the way for a bit.