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Re: [FOT] Race History TR-3 Owner Nomination

To: Jim Prettyleaf <jprettyleaf@yahoo.com>, Friends of Triumph
Subject: Re: [FOT] Race History TR-3 Owner Nomination
From: Todd Redmond <alfetta95@optonline.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:07:28 -0500
I second!  Welcome Mark.  I also have my dads TR3A.  Would love to hear your 
story in details

Todd Redmond
1958 TR3A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Prettyleaf" <jprettyleaf@yahoo.com>
To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>
Cc: "James Prettyleaf" <jprettyleaf@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:59 AM
Subject: [FOT] Race History TR-3 Owner Nomination


>  I am pleased to nominate Mark Eginton to join the Friends of Triumph 
> discussion list.  Mark still owns the SCCA race history TR-3 that his Dad 
> drove at Riverside, Santa Barbara and Laguna Seca in the early 60's. 
> According to Mark his Dad's car was probably the only satin black TR3 out 
> there, and Mark still has the original "Ditto" schedules from some of 
> these events.
>
>  Mark's father was a foreign car mechanic and therefore he always had a 
> garage full of parts. When Mark was 11 the car became his and he built the 
> existing pumped-up engine with his Dad's help, so by the time Mark could 
> drive - the car was ready.  Mark regularly beat 327 Chevys and 914s in 
> drag races outside the El Toro Marine base in High School (nothing too 
> serious just other competitors driving stock and street modified 
> machines).
>
>  Mark still has the car plus vintage parts and intends to build a replica 
> of his Dad's original race engine with his son's help this winter.  Mark 
> hopes to reuse as many old parts from the garage and minimizing the use of 
> new components whenever possible.  When the car is completed Mark plans to 
> vintage race it for fun although he has some concerns that the roll bar is 
> probably too low for today's standards.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Jim Prettyleaf
>
>  Cupertino, California
>
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