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RE: WATKINS GLEN

To: "'joe dirt'" <oldskooling@yahoo.com>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: WATKINS GLEN
From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:05:52 -0700
Mystery solved.
 
Is 1:46 good? I may not be remembering correctly, but I think I managed one
1:46 something,  but I could not repeat it. It did, however, get me second
on the grid for group three, which was kind of cool. I think the I was
mostly turning 1:48 and the Kastner/Brophy Dolomite (or is that a Vitesse)
did a 1:45, lead me on a frantic search for better tires. 
 
Fun race. 


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From: joe dirt [mailto:oldskooling@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 5:29 AM
To: Bill Babcock; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: WATKINS GLEN


The Prather MGB is a blue car and doesn not have a full width roll cage.
When you say yellow MGB I assume you mean Dave Headly.  He owns his own prep
shop fab-tech and is also an old time SCCA guy. On the SCCA production car
forum Jesse Prather stated that the car (at Road Atlanta) had a 1.46 in it
which is what Headly was running (I believe they ran as fast a 1.48 that
weekend, but were in traffic all the time). The Prather B, unlike Headly's
(he uses a single weber), has two 1 3/4 SU's. The motor is built up to FP
specs and to quote Jesse "Didn't put a runoffs caliber engine into it by any
means to keep the reliability up but she pops pretty darn good" So there is
yet another B to try to beat along with Headly, Munoz, and Luening.
-Bob Adams
 
Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com> wrote:

I may have the name wrong, but wasn't there a guy named Prather at the Mitty
driving an MGB. If I am wrong, who was driving that yellow car that was for
sale? 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of joe dirt
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:28 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: WATKINS GLEN

Great post, especially the RPTRTDMG. Stockton will be back at the Glen this
year and his car should be much faster. It would be great to see many more
Triumphs there. It would be without a doubt the easiest place to get a MG
vs. Triumph competition going, since so many MG's regulary attend the event.
The story about Prather being there with his MGA was for dispay purposes
only. He was giving a tech seminar, and since they were already in the
"area" for the runoffs that were coming up he had his car with him. Though
this year he and his son, Jesse, have prepped a MGB and they are campaigning
it on the vintage circuit. It is a fast car (2:18's at VIR this past
weekend) So if they're going to show up this upcoming Sept, I would have to
imagine that they will be there with the B. So that adds yet another very
fast Group 3 MG. This year may prove to be interesting though..

-Bob Adams




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