Wow, that's a memory from the past. I lived not too far away
from "Start Your Engines" and spent lots of time and money
with them. I moved away, and had always wondered what
had happened.
Thanks,
John
On 12/7/2013 9:51 AM, BillDentin@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/06/2013 10:43:43 PM Central Standard Time,
> malaboge@aol.com writes:
>
>
>
>> Yeah my break with the common MGB style dampner sold today was also just
>> behind the front main. One weekend on the crank and it broke on the
>> warmup
>> lap! So much work put into that crank...it was artwork. So much so that
>> I still
>> have it ensconced in its own little display in the shop. from an old
>> crank...
>>
>>
> Amici...
>
> In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I had a very nice TR3A street car. I had
> found and bought an old Judson super charger, which we installed as much to
> make it unique as anything else. I took the car to a North American
> Triumph Challenge meet in Illinois that summer, and standing in line on the
> false
> grid waiting to do an autocross, I broke the crank warming up the engine.
> They say the crank is the natural weak link in our engines. That car had
> been restored by 'Start Your Engines' out in Beltsville, Maryland (remember
> them?) right before they went bankrupt. I don't know who rebuilt the engine,
> but I'll bet that crank would not have broke if Mike Belfer had built that
> engine. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
>
> Bill Dentinger
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R. John Lye
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