What he said. (John, check out your picture on our web page, "Little
Bits" link below)
Plus, "Little Bits" got to be first on the track behind the pace car for
the two parade laps at the lunch break Saturday. What a thrill. I
sooooo wanted to pass that pace car. Anybody take pictures? All of ours
are from in the car.
Didn't see the orange Sob or Chuck, most people I know weren't at the
car or pit when I was, so didn't talk to many folks.
Can anyone identify the Triumph thing that was there? They had info on
the dealer, but didn't see anything about the car. It's on our web page too.
Dave & Bobbie
67 BJ8 "Not in Bits" http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2z49v/bj8.htm
1960 AH3000 "Healey Bits" http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2z49v/bt7.htm
1960 Bugeye "Little Bits"
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2z49v/bugeye.htm
John.Deikis@med.va.gov wrote:
>Just a little on the hot side at MidOhio this past weekend-like close to 100
>with plenty of corn-fed humidity. But most seemed to revel in the spirit of
>the final race event of this amazing excursion from down under. See
>www.auhc.net
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>GREAT bunch of Healeys, little, big, biggest to enjoy beating each other up
>around the track. Nice infield display as well, including what may have
>been the largest North American gathering of Sunbeam Tigers to date.
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>Mal Fay's yellow Spridget ran like stink and, other than going four wheels
>in the air over some yellow curbing at the pit out when he was bumped by a
>tin cup of a Sprite, it pretty much proved itself the be the little engine
>that could.
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>Group races were as much fun as the all-Healey event, although those pesky
>Minis-one with a Thicko sticker even-kept lapping me and then skimming
>around the tight turns like a flat rock on a pond.
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>As for the #49 "Works Midget" dressed as a Sprite with it's new aluminum
>house-gutter screen for a grille, it deported itself acceptably with the
>transplant of Tommy Samuel's street motor. Definitely 62 HP though! I
>consistently beat a yellow Alpine in the group race, thus managing to not be
>last. And I performed a reprise in the all-Healey race, behind Ron Olsen's
>Big 6, which was running with a broken crankshaft.
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>There. I said it. From now on, we don't have to bring it up again. What
>the heck, after Friday and Saturday of tweaking carbs and timing, I had a
>grand time anyway, the motor pulling to 6500 RPM with good oil pressure,
>okay water temps, and no blue smoke. Did not roll the car and did not burn
>a hole in any pistons.
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>Chuck Christ had very bad luck with the orange 3-cylinder Saab sporting
>Spridget@autox decals. Broken harmonic balancer and something mysteriously
>serious with a crank bearing, he thinks, set him on the sidelines right at
>the beginning of Friday morning's fun.
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>Thanks to the listers who came by to help or shoot the breeze. In that
>heat, every rest was welcome!
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>JohnD
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