Thank you Ken for letting us know. I am saddened by his departure.
Bought thekit for the street car and the throw out bearing for the race
car. While I never met hom in person, I had many long talks over the
phone. Like with Ken, there was never a short conversation with Herman.
And with both of them, there was more information to absorb from these
conversation than I was capable of doing. They will both be sorely missed,
Chuck
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Kenneth Knight via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:
> FOT Friends;
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> It is with profound sadness that I let the FOT community know that Herman
> Van Den Akker passed away last Friday. While not an FOT member Herman was
> the maker of the HVDA conversion kit that allowed for a Toyota 5 speed to
> be installed in street TR?s and he belonged to several Southern California
> TR Clubs.
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> Herman was my great and dear friend. A master machinist of over 60 years
> he and his wife Helen came here from Holland in the 1960?s. He worked as a
> machinist in the airline industry and had his own shop doing very high
> level machining for prototypes in Simi Valley until his retirement. Never
> one to sit still Herman developed the transmission kit that he sold for
> years and restored cars. The TR-3A he did for his daughter Heide and his
> TR-250 are some of the very best restorations in the country. As a friend
> Herman was generous with his time and anything that I know about machining
> was from Herman. Herman was a good friends with Ken Gilllanders, who we
> sadly lost this year, they worked together on many projects. Any of you
> who ever met Herman knew what a character he was.
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> Herman loved a good beer and his Scotch. So drink a cold one for this
> fine man. Sometime next Spring there will be a party in Woodley Park for
> Herman. I will keep you posted.
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> Ken Knight
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