Cool, sounds like Aaron is in the Northwest. I'll second on that basis
alone.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Kahler [mailto:brad.kahler@141.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:49 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Spit driver nomination
Amici,
I'd like to nominate Aaron Johnson to our ranks. Below is a short Bio
Aaron wrote.
Do I have a second?!
Brad
(1957 TR3 Road Racer)
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Aaron Johnson" <fpspitfire37@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:52:37 -0700
Short Bio:
27 Years Old. Married, 10 month old son. Project Engineer at a titanium
investment casting foundry. Auto-crossed a Tr6 for a couple years and
thought about going vintage racing with it and decided that may not be for
me. As I was debating back and forth between making the TR6 a dedicated
race car, I came upon a Spitfire MkIV that was an SCCA F-Production car
built in 1982 by Robin Burke of Ft. Collins, CO. Robin had moved to France
and was paying a good sum to store the car until he returned (which may be
never). So I worked a deal with him and bought the car and trailer for a
meager sum in August of 1999.
After getting the car we completely disassembled it and basically started
from scratch. It was really just a tub with some good parts. I finally
finished the car in august of 2002 and entered a hill climb event to shake
the car down and look for the really big bugs. The hill climb was
OK...but I knew what I wanted to do and that was Road Race.
I entered my first drivers school in March of 2003 (2 years after the
original planned date). I finished my second drivers school in April 2003
and had my First DNF in a race that weekend.
I bypassed the May event in Oregon to re-wire the car and this paid off.
I entered the Portland Rose Cup Races in June and scored my first
F-Production Class win when my competition dropped out with a broken coil
wire of all things.
I'm definitely learning a lot about spitfires. I could tell you how to
make a TR6 handle in my sleep, but this is a new animal and I'm loving
every minute of it
Aaron Johnson
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