Growing your product; Vintage gardener sows seeds at Lime Rock.(Escape Roads)(vintage car racing)(Brief Article)

Byline: MIKE COVELLO The successes of NASCAR and Harley-Davidson are textbook examples of ``Growing your product.'' Through the efforts of Steve Earle, the ``Godfather of Vintage Racing,'' and vintage racer Murray Smith, a small regional event at Laguna Seca each August grew into the Monterey Historic Weekend.

This year, erstwhile driver and race-school impresario Skip Barber enlisted Earle to help upgrade the 20th annual Lime Rock Park Vintage Fall Festival. Earle's aim with the Connecticut event, traditionally conducted on Labor Day weekend, was to make it more like Monterey, ...

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