Seconded by me too, I immediately recognised Larry's great TR3 (I was runner
up last October in trying to buy it, John was there first, and rightfully
got it) I am pleased and happy it went to such good hands and fellow!
Welcome John, and let us know how it works with 16!
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De : fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] De la
part de Larry Young
Envoyi : vendredi 4 mars 2011 20:38
@ : fot@autox.team.net
Cc : John Hasty
Objet : Re: [Fot] Nomination
Of course, I will second that, since John now has my yellow TR3. He's
already made some nice improvements that I never got around to.
Larry Young
On 3/4/2011 12:40 PM, Don Marshall wrote:
> I'd like to nominate John Hasty for membership in our esteemed group.
> He has recently started racing a well prepared TR3 here in the
> southeast and will be joining us in the Triumph Ghetto at VIR next
> month. Mark, his email address is jhhasty@gdhs.com.
>
> The following excerpt is from an email he sent me. I'm sure he'll be
> a good addition to our group. Can I get a second? Don
>
> "I've been into racing most anything that has a motor and wheels
> since the 40's when in high school building hot rods. Took off a few
> years while in college, but beginning in 1959 bought my first sports
> car, an Austin Healy 3000 w/o a jump seat, next a MGB, then a Porsche
> 912, then a Merc 280SL, now an Alfa Spider for the street and my TR3A for
the track.
> Crewed for a friend in the 60's with a bug-eye sprite in SCCA events
> then got into motorcycles. I road motorcycle road-racers for about 10
> years and when I retired from riding, built and tuned 250cc GP
> road-racers with a rider on the AMA pro circuit for about 7 years. We
> did pretty well, never finished worse than 5th. in overall standings
> and won the national championship in 1990. My good friend Ceasar Cone
> got me back into sports car racing and when it came time to buy a car
> I decided that if I was going vintage racing I wanted a truly vintage
> car and I think the TR3A is a perfect truly vintage car.
> A little history on the TR3A. I have been able to trace its history
> back to 1988 when it was found in a hanger already prepared as a race
> car by a young man in Denver CO. It then went to the Dallas TX area,
> back to Denver and then to Tulsa OK where I got the car. I am now the
> 6th. Owner since 1988. I have documented over 75 races the car has
> been in mostly in the Midwest with CVRA, VSCDA, RMVA, at tracks such
> as Texas World, Hallet, Second Creek, Casper, Stapleton, Steam Boat
> Springs, Copper Mountain, Eagles Canyon, Blackhawk Farms. It ventured
> east a few times to Road America and with SVRA at Mid Ohio and Watkins
> Glen."
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