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To: Tom Householder <trhouse@columbus.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Old sports car footage
From: Tom Householder <trhouse@columbus.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:10:03 -0500
Sorry it was March 54 Newsletter . I had a page stuck in my hard copy  
of these.....
here is the newsletter

http://www.templeoftriumph.org/tsoa/TSOA0109/TSOA0364.pdf

T

On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Tom Householder wrote:

> Dana Keible and Ara Dube ran the 2000 Km Daytona Continental in 54  
> finished 15th overall and first in GT II. Car was Prepared by Bill  
> Conners of Daytona Beach ,  The fourteen car ahead of them were 7  
> Ferarris, 3 AC Cobras, and 4 Porches . 8 laps behind was a  Lotus  
> Elite , followed by Aston Matin Sunbeam Alpine, Porsche C, Volvo  
> 1800s, and a bunch of Corvettes, a TR4 , an MG and a Sebring  
> Sprite.  See Mar. 64 TSOA Newsletter, Maybe  at Temple of Triumph  
> site,  Kastner was receiving  an Award in Dallas from the SCCA for  
> Technical writing in the same Newsletter,
>
> T
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:46 PM, EDWARD BARNARD wrote:
>
>> Group: Since we are on the subject of old photos, this video  
>> surfaced on
>> another list I am a member of. It is a tribute to Lloyd Ruby, the  
>> greatest
>> driver to never win Indy. Although there is a lot of Indy car  
>> footage Ruby was
>> also a very successful driver in sports cars and stock cars. At  
>> the 4:10 point
>> of the video is footage of Ruby driving a Cobra at the 1964 or  
>> 1965 24 Hours
>> of Daytona. It shows him passing a TR3. It would be very cool if  
>> there was
>> some way of identifying the car/driver of that car. Perhaps Kas  
>> would know who
>> it is.
>> I had a chance to meet Ruby three years ago at a gathering we were  
>> having in
>> the area where I was showing my '39 Champ car. He was truly an  
>> interesting
>> guy; full of stories of the great days, but, being from Wichita  
>> Falls, Texas
>> you had to be patient as he spoke in a slow Texas drawl. Sadly, he  
>> passed two
>> years ago.
>>
>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qR62ONHLIw&feature=player_embedded
>>
>> -Ed-
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