isnt it amazing that we all survived our own "kidhood"???
Tom
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--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Justin Wagner <jmwagner@greenheart.com> wrote:
From: Justin Wagner <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Nice TR3 Interior
To: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
Cc: fot@autox.team.net, tr3driver@ca.rr.com
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 9:09 PM
My first TR was a TR4A that I restored when I was 15... in 1977. (Funny to
think that a 10 year old car needed a total restoration!) Long story short....
I set up that engine nearly full race.... and as a teen... I used to street
race any car that I could find willing to give it a shot... Yes, I would smoke
289 Mustangs and leave them in the dust. I pretty much beat just about anything
I raced. I recall racing a Corvette.... and we were neck and neck between
lights and he never could pull ahead. He yelled through his window, "What
the hell have you got under that hood?" I'd smile and said,
"stock". (Okay, so it wasn't really stock, but it was the
original motor!) They just didn't expect it from a little wire-wheeled TR!
My favorite street race was with a Sunbeam Tiger. At first, I couldn't get
this old guy to go for it... (LOL, that "old guy" was probably about
as old as I am now!) I kept revving my motor and taunting him between lights,
but he just wouldn't race. Finally, after about 3 lights... he knodded his
okay... and we watched the cross-lights.... green-amber-red-GOOOOO!!!! I
dropped the clutch and catapulted off the line. We were neck to neck! I
chirped it into second....chirped into third... and before I knew it, bam I was
in fourth.... YES... we're talking well over 100.... and I looked over...
and he was right next to me... I thought I had him at a tie.... but then...
I heard it....
He still had another gear....
So he pulled ahead of me, but we ran out of runway and stopped at the next
light. You could see he was exhilarated. And he was also impressed that my
little four-banger had matched his V8. He just beat me at the top end..
There's a lot more stories like that, but then I'd have to worry about
indictments being handed down.
--Justin
RACER BUD wrote:
> Street racing..now it's coming back...1966...I had a 1962 TR4...San
Francisco Bay Area...East Bay...the car was stock except for a self done valve
grind and de-arched leaf springs(ala Steve Froines' suggestion as 'The
first thing to do to a TR4 to begin making it a race car)...Late nights in the
city of Oakland....coming home from who knows what party ...I could blow off 289
Mustangs between signals..probably up to about 50+ mph...there were/are 2 ways
to shift the old Tr4s with the stock box...pause in between gears..OR shift so
fast that it just blasted right in..WHAM, WHAM, WHAM!!
> great old days
> Racer Bud
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