Group: Isn't the collective knowledge of this group spectacular! An outsider
would surely think we all need to get a life :O)
-Ed-
--- On Sun, 1/8/12, Robert Kramer <rkramer3@austin.rr.com> wrote:
From: Robert Kramer <rkramer3@austin.rr.com>
Subject: RE: [Fot] Old sports car footage
To: "'Tom Householder'" <trhouse@columbus.rr.com>, "'EDWARD BARNARD'"
<edwardbarnard@prodigy.net>
Cc: "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 6:23 PM
Jim McAndrew of Tyler TX has a TR3 that matches that description. I know it
was raced by those guys.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence.
Vince Lombardi
-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Tom Householder
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 5:43 PM
To: EDWARD BARNARD
Cc: FOT
Subject: Re: [Fot] Old sports car footage
Dana Keible and Ara Dube ran the 2000 Km Daytona Continental in 54
finished 15th overall and first in GT II. Car was Prepared by Bill
Conners of Daytona Beach , The fourteen car ahead of them were 7
Ferarris 3 AC Cobras and 4 Porches . 8 laps behind was a lotus
Elite , followed by Aston Matin Sunbeam Alpine, Porsche C, Volvo
1800s, and a bunch of Corvettes, a TR4 , an MG and a Sebring Sprite.
See Feb. 64 TSOA Newsletter, Maybe at Temple of Triumph site,
Kastner was receiving an Award in Dallas from the SCCA for Technical
writing in the same Newsletter,
T
On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:46 PM, EDWARD BARNARD wrote:
> Group: Since we are on the subject of old photos, this video
> surfaced on
> another list I am a member of. It is a tribute to Lloyd Ruby, the
> greatest
> driver to never win Indy. Although there is a lot of Indy car
> footage Ruby was
> also a very successful driver in sports cars and stock cars. At the
> 4:10 point
> of the video is footage of Ruby driving a Cobra at the 1964 or 1965
> 24 Hours
> of Daytona. It shows him passing a TR3. It would be very cool if
> there was
> some way of identifying the car/driver of that car. Perhaps Kas
> would know who
> it is.
> I had a chance to meet Ruby three years ago at a gathering we were
> having in
> the area where I was showing my '39 Champ car. He was truly an
> interesting
> guy; full of stories of the great days, but, being from Wichita
> Falls, Texas
> you had to be patient as he spoke in a slow Texas drawl. Sadly, he
> passed two
> years ago.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qR62ONHLIw&feature=player_embedded
>
> -Ed-
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