Apologize for bombing the list with this, my Dad asked me to let your
guys know. My Dad, Bob Paul, was an old line TR guy. He was active on
this list a few years back. He's owned and driven TR2 through TR4 over
the past 40 years and in the process acquired a pretty good collection
of literature, Triumph (25 or 30) and general sports car and early
racing stuff .
Some books are from the 50's and are probably real rare, like a book
called the TRIUMPH GUIDE from 1959. full of early stories and
details. There's a photo during the 1958 Alpine Ralley of driver
Hamli pouring cement into the radiator of his wrecked TR after a head
on with a local Puegeot. It worked and he finished the race, with no
front clip, it was still attached to the Peugeot !! This is probably
one of the stories, documented, that gave the TRs the reputation for
being tough. It looks like a factory supported TSOA publication.
Other racing books include Alan Johnson's 1972 book "Driving in
Competition", Paul Frere's 1965 "Sports Car and Competition Driving
and Denis Jenkinson 1958 chronicle of early racing with Stirling Moss
"The Racing Driver", (there are some incredible photos in this one)
"Handbook of the Worlds Sports Cars" from 1961, Driving in Competition
by Alan Johnson, and a few more. Wild reading early race stuff with
incredible period photos too. I especially like one photo of Ascari
and friends during an early race.
One book, 'The Sports Car , its design and performance', 1965 by Colin
Campbell has an unbelievable amount of detailed technical stuff about
racing and building engines like: optinal tail pipe length by speed,
piston ring flutter, suspension geometry and developmental formulae,
tuning details for super tuning, big end bearing loads at various
bore/stroke ratios at 6000 RPM, aerodynamic drag coefficients for
various early sports cars, formulae for calculating weight transfer
under braking, volumetric efficiency, ramming pipes. Sheesh,more
details than that. Not directly TR related, but interesting reading.
He's also asked me to sell his limited edition copy (161 of 500) of
Piggott's book TRIUMPH BY NAME TRIUMPH BY NATURE with original
signatures by Ken Richardson and Bill Piggott and letter of
transmittal from Pigott. Piggott said in that letter that he didn't
think Richardson would get all signed as he was very ill at the time.
There's also a bunch of early stuff from the Watkins Glen Grand Prix,
Driver Id's, tickets, brochures. He's even got the original
announcers notes from one early race, and a blank check from the Grand
Prix corporation, plus the usual hats, mugs, wall placks and even a
Grand Prix beer can !
There are also about 10 or 15 dash placks from early club events in the 50's
from Watkin's Glen region clubs.
He's sold the cars and most of the parts and is moving to Mexico
permanently. He's down there all the time pretty much and he asked me
to sell the books and literature on e-Bay. I think he's chasing a
couple of Mexican beauties personally. He said he need the money for
beer. With a place 2 blocks from the beach and a boat, why not. He
wants to put a TR engine in the boat to replace the Volvo engine.
I'm hoping to get all the auctions done real fast as I'm a full time
engineering student and finals are coming up. These might make great
gifts for Triumph guys and gals and vintage race fans. If interested
watch New Mexico Triumph on e-Bay, that's the seller name Dad used and
I will be selling under that name. Some of the stuff is up already.
I'll try to answer questions as best I can.
Also my 55 TR2 is coming along real well. Out out of the paint shop
looking fabulous. White paint code we got from Joe Richards, Engine is
95% rebuilt and should come back from the machine shop for
installation soon. Hopefully before Dad is off to Mexico permanently.
The car has to be sold to fund my college and I will be setting up a
web site soon. I'ts a nut and bolt , frame off restoration, as
original as possible, except for the Mahle 87 40 over pistons. Lots of
the NOS stuff Dad collected is going into this car. He wants me to
paint the wire wheels red, whadda ya think about that? Top is custom
Robbins Red canvas.
TR (Travis Robert) Paul
Corrales, New Mexico
TS 5280L
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