On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, R. John Lye wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 9/7/99 -0400, Robert Bownes wrote:
> >Well, since I do live north of the Mason-Dixon line, all teeth are
> >required...
>
> Shouldn't that be: "currently live north of..."?
Hmmmm....
Is there a rumor here??? Will Bob Dr. Bobwrench become known as
Billy-Bob?? Enquiring minds want to know!
On a completly unrelated tack - but in the spirit of the list, I must
report that I did attend Sat. goings-on at Lime Rock Park in sunny
Salisbury, CT this weekend past.
There were four - count 'em - four Triumphs there. Two spitfires, a TR3
and a TR6. The TR6 was the Bill Warner/Group 44 car - way kool. I got
some video of the car at full chat. But not enough. I'll have to make
sure I get to see the car again - Mid-Ohio next June, perhaps??
I also climbed under the car. WOW. I've never seen a TR6 diff. that
clean! And the aluminium diff mounts are things of beauty. DOUBLE WOW.
And I finally got a good look at that twin-pipe exhaust. Very kool
indeed. I especially like the "box" between the headers and the twin
pipes. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
And boy, does it sound great.
The TR3 was RHD, the driver had some regional affiliation, but I'm not
sure if was NJ or Washington, DC area. Brain fade. Sorry.
The Spitfires were the infamous Number 68 white car with blue stripes and
a red one belonging to someone who apparently frequents Lime Rock Park at
least according to the banter over the PA. The white car's head is shaved
so much that a small piece of the front corner of the cyl. head was
_missing_, probably due to it being less than 1/8 inch thick. Figure at
least 13:1 with that baby. But it runs "real sweet".
Generally, a good time was had by all.
There was some carnage during one of the practice/qualifying sessions
with some of the "big bore" cars... an ex-IMSA GTO Corvette lost a motor
_big time_ on the "no-name straight" and spun into the outside wall.
After bouncing off said wall, the car bounded back onto the track and
collected the spinning (due to loss of oil of the instigator) '63
Split-window Corvette of an apparently unlucky person. The '63 was back
for the next session, albeit with about 200 pounds of fashionable black
"racer tape" holding the rear body together. I'm afraid the ex IMSA car
was probably a write-off. I'm pretty sure there were no bodily injuries,
but dented pocket-books, for sure.
There was also a relatively large tete-a-tete in the diving turn during
one of the practice/qualifying races. Apparently, someone dumped beaucoups
oil at the turn in and several cars either went straight-on or looped
into the infield. Obviously a red-flag situation, but again, I'm pretty
sure nobody was hurt and I think there was minimal damage to cars. It
_could_ have been a lot worse.
Burt Levy was hawking books at "driving Impressions", I picked up a copy
and looked to see what the FOT "advertisement" looked like - Good job Mr.
Alexander. Of course I hadn't read the "Last Open Road" yet, so I figured
it was pointless to read "Montezuma's Revenge" at this time. Besides, I
still have a collection of old "Mad Magazines" in the "unread pile"...
maybe next year. So I passed on the book thing.
The Schumacher's were there, of course, and I dropped some money there
(and elsewhere). I had a good time. I would have had a better time if I
was driving, though. Oh well, gotta get a lottery ticket on the way home
tonite.
NOT.
There was a GP Spitfire for sale in the car coral and there was a '68 Mk
III stuffed in the back of an enclosed trailer with a cardboard sign
indicating "Please make me into a race car, '68 Spitfire Mk III with
missing nose and no motor, $800". What a bargain!
> John Lye
> rjl6n@Virginia.edu
See ya,
rml
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