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RE: TR Drag Race times

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Subject: RE: TR Drag Race times
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@COX.NET>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:22:40 -0700
I would quote elapsed times for Tiny Tim with the 240 hp Honda engine,
but alas none of the local dragstrips will let me run because I don't
have a top or full roll cage.  They think my car is unsafe!  :(


Joe (C)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of BillDentin@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:03 AM
To: BFEKENG@aol.com; FOT@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR Drag Race times

In a message dated 01/28/2004 9:25:23 AM Central Standard Time, 
BFEKENG@aol.com writes:


> In the 50's They didnt know what to do with the TR's
> & they had to race with every thing on them, tops side curtains
> et al. By the mid 60's I was running in the 12.80's about
> 108 MPH with one or two runs at 12.50 & 110 mph.
> I would think a good vintage racer would be a low 13.00
> second machine & about 100 mph.
> 

To put that in perspective, in the 1950s John Reimer (Caledonia
Automotive 
Service) an old Hot Rodder who went on to greatness in both road and
circle 
track racing, built an MG-T with a Corvette engine to go road racing
against Augie 
Pabst.  The car went great, but wouldn't stop or turn, so he took it
Drag 
Racing.  His best times were similar to Ken's TR2 mentioned above.
Those elapsed 
times sound slow by today's standards, but in the 1950s...that was
FLYING.  
KUDOS to Ken and his crew in the little four banger.  Retired now, in
the 1990s 
Reimer restored his MG-T, added some modern brakes, rubber, and a custom

intake manifold with six carbs.  He ran the car often at ROAD AMERICA.
It was a 
hoot to watch him embarrass cars like the Scarab, LOTUS 23B, etc., etc.

Bill Dentinger

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