Hi Dave,
Nice last name!
If you are referring to the yellow Triumph based kit car, I think that it
was one of those popular 1960s FiberFab bodies put on a TR3 chassis.
Mike Carpenter
----- Original Message -----
From "Dave Carpenter" <d.carpenter7 at verizon.net>
To: <John.Deikis@med.va.gov>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: Aussie-US Healey Challenge
> 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
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Thanks to the listers who came by to help or shoot the breeze. In that
>>heat, every rest was welcome!
>>
>>
>>JohnD
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