A TR7 that is just waiting for a new owners name on that title! Plus I could
get rid of all the parts that are still in my garage and the beer room, that
go with it. Pugs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J Bradakis [SMTP:mjb@cs.utah.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 1:29 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Uh oh...
>
>
> The demise of the Tooele track is certainly unfortunate. So it goes.
> Someday there will be real road racing in Utah. You know, it was
> nearly a quarter of a century ago that I flagged for an SCCA regional
> out at the last event held at the Bonneville Raceway. I bought my
> first Triumph the following day, after watching "Weird Herald" doing
> laps around the course.
>
> Bonneville Raceway was the name of the race track and drag strip
> complex just on the west side of town, not to be confused with the
> Bonneville Speedway, a name given to a certain patch of salt out near
> Wendover. Which is what I've been thinking about for the last few
> days. You may recall a while back I had talked some about doing a
> Triumph land speed car of some sort. While checking out
> www.saltflats.com,
> the home page of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, I started
> thinking
> about it a bit more seriously, especially after reading the rules for the
> 130 mph club. And with no race track events in the near future, I may
> decide
> to not work on getting Plut's production racer later this season, but turn
> my attention in another direction.
>
> I was thinking about a GT6, seeing as I would probably be more comfortable
> in a closed car rather than brave a Spitfire at 100+. Then I got to
> thinking about this blue TR7 coupe sitting out front of the shop, and
> the pile of performance bits for it stashed inside....
>
> mjb.
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