>From: Rikrock@aol.com
>Reply-To: Rikrock@aol.com
>To: fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: Drag Racing Triumphs?
>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:42:14 EST
>
>Amici,
>
> I've been wondering what kind of times the current vintage-race TR's
>might
>run. Anyone have a story to tell?
>
>Years ago, there was a genuine 1/4mile dragstrip not too far from my home,
>and every once in a while I would take my TR4A there for "testing". I
>didn't
>save the time slips, but I think the best I ever did was around 15.6
>seconds at
>85-88 mph. At the time, my car was still streetable, barely.
>
`Not personally but I did witness the following not too far from your
home... Remember Vargo
Drag-O-Way in Perkasie?
Back in `65 or 66 I watched The Glenside Triumph TR4A get a hole shot on
a bucket T Injected
Vette A gasser... The TR was still pulling away when the A gasser
spectacularly blew... I think the
driver of the TR was probably surprised... but not nearly as much as the
driver of the A gasser.
The "Glenside TR4" was proported to be "bone stock" but notoriously
quick... Beating Vettes
was something it did on a regular basis.
Greg Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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