My two cents: That's not your father's Austin Healey 100

“That’s music to my ears,” one of the race fans chuckled as he approached the Spokane Raceway Park at Airway Heights. He was listening to the sound of small bore engines going up and down the rpm scales as drivers negotiated the recently revised road course circuit at Airway Heights.

That sound reigned Saturday and Sunday in a special debut at the track.

After weeks, really years, of volunteer work and planning the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts were competing at Spokane.

Known as SOVREN, the organization had rolled to the Spokane track to present an inaugural race meet in this part of...