Fast Cars

Here's a good primer on making your old fast car safe again.

Vintage racing is one of the fastest-growing forms of motorsports competition out there, thanks in part to its unique ability to present classic cars in motion on the race track, just as they might have been 20, 30 or more years ago.

There is one small difference, however: it's now some decades later, and these cars are, well, old. That changes the game a bit. If you're are going to head out and start mixing it up in a 30-year-old sports car, first you need to make sure that it's safe and up to modern safety standards.

For illustrative purposes, we'll be preparing our 1957 Triumph TR3 for vintage racing. While this car was raced in SCCA competition back in the '50s and '60s, nearly all of the safety equipment needs to be brought up to modern standards.