First Greg wrote (about Matt's Spitfire):
> >>This doesn't sound like a vintage car to me!
R. John Lye responded:
> >Uhhhh, Greg - This is a list for "triumph racers" not "triumph vintage
> racers"......
Richard Taylor added:
> Uhhhh, John - I'd like to think that there is a little room left on the
> list to accommodate Triumph Vintage Racers too, don'tcha think?
Uhhhh GUYS AND GALS, I thought it was pretty much for anyone and everyone
interested in virtually any and all sorts of competitive events involving
the Triumph marque. You got your current SCCA production racers, you got
your vintage racers, you got your autocrossers in both "prepped" cars and
streetable cars, there might well be rallyists out there, and there are
more than a few very interested and knowledgeable "observer/historian"
types on the list.
All this "uhhhh" stuff is beginning to scare me. I thought for a moment I
was at an online VTR membership meeting! :-)
--Andy
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p.s. For Greg, Matt and others who might not know me, my "squatter's
rights" on this list involve a whole bunch of years of local club-level
rallying and autocrossing, primarily in a Spitfire Mk.3 then a GT6+ until
circa 1983. At that point, a friend and I began autocrossing a rescued
(similar to the way folks adopt "retired" racing Greyhound dogs) GP
Spitfire -- the "Hardly Boys RaceSpit 4" -- still equipped and prepared to
circa late 1960s Kastner and SCCA production spec's. Even still has the
camber compensator! There's a picture of the car at
<http://www.imagin.net/~hensley/rrtcpics.html> (Thanks, Susan!) Oh, I do
use somewhat more modern rubber, although I've got a fair supply of
30-year-old Blue Streaks!
Note that this car might soon fall victim to the urge to radically alter
same after all these years. I now have GT6 front uprights and brakes
available, if I ever get around to putting it all on the RaceSpit. Only
problem is, that might mean flushing out the last of the Girling Crimson
Brake Fluid.... :-)
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