In a message dated 7/18/2009 8:42:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
mmarr@notwires.com writes:
> This, of course, prompted a google search. I couldn't find any reference
> to
> his racing a TR3, but I did discover that he raced a Volvo PV544, a Lotus
> 11
> and drove a Lancia Appia Zagato in the 12 hrs of Sebring in 1959. The
> only
> TR3 reference I found was an occasion when a publicity photo was taken of
> him in a TR3 receiving a ticket from a "bobby" (who was actually a Triumph
>
> executive in costume). Apparently his wife asked him to find a more
> family-oriented hobby, which caused him to take up sailing. What an
> accomplished guy!
>
All this and he was a ham radio operator, too. KB2GSD.
Dave
N0FEJ
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