Great video Henry! And all wonderful races. We all live for weekends like
that.
I was particularly entertained by watching the key fob on the glovebox key.
You should label it in g's
Mike
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>From: yellow04 via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Jan 19, 2021 12:02 PM
>To: fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Fot] Bill Dentinger
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>Bill meant a lot of things to a lot of people. One thing for sure, if
>you had the pleasure to meet Bill, you certainly did not forget him. I
>have many fond memories, like sitting on the grid as some event in the
>broiling heat waiting our turn to take the track and hearing Bill, at
>the top of his lungs, singing some completely inappropriate song to no
>one in particular. Or at a huge SVRA event, hundred of drivers are
>intently listening to Jack Woehrle or Carl Jensen trying to get through
>a drivers meeting and Bill would just heckle the crap out of them. Not
>privately, mind you, but in a voice that everybody in the county would
>hear. And it was hysterical.
>
>Bill was a racer at heart. The number of events that the Beady Eye
>Vintage Triumph Racing team ran annually was impressive. Remember Bill
>had Old Blue, Bob Wismer had the #4 blue TR4 (now campaigned by Paul
>Ricco), and between them they co-owned the Thunderbolt, an extremely
>limited production special from Tornado Cars, based on the TR3. They
>would trade off season to season driving the Thunderbolt and their
>respective TR. There was no expense spared on the preparation of either
>his or Bob's cars. Any discussion of the Beady Eye team is incomplete
>without mentioning Don Brick, the third member of the team. Don raced a
>white TR4 with red wire wheels, and might have been the speediest of the
>group, I believe the last year he ran was 2005.
>
>Bill was quite proud of the fact that Old Blue, a 1956 TR3, was the most
>period correct vintage racer on track in the country. While I never
>researched it, nobody who heard the story doubted it. The amount of
>Triumph Competition Department equipment in the car was impressive. A
>race car since new, Bill was only the second racer to track the car.
>
>At some point over the course our friendship I must have mentioned to
>Bill how much I liked Old Blue, and would like to own the car when he is
>ready to hang up the helmet for the last time. (I am confident alcohol
>was involved in this conversation!) This turned into Bill selling the
>car to me back in 2014. My trip to Wisconsin to pick up the car and
>spares was both delightful and melancholy, you knew it was the end of an
>era. But Bill had high hopes I would keep the flame alive. My intent was
>to keep the car as period correct as possible, but make it safe and fun.
>I think I have struck a good compromise, some of those Competition
>Department goodies have made way for more suitable replacements, but for
>the most part the car remains remarkably period correct.
>
>Every time I had a race weekend with the car I would email Bill and tell
>him how things went. We exchanged mail and it was obvious he was
>genuinely excited to see Old Blue still on track, doing better and
>better. It all came together at the Jefferson 500 at Summit Point in
>2019, it was one of those weekends we all dream of. Picture perfect
>weather, and you get grouped with a bunch of racers that are great
>competition and you are running with fast guys up front. Then the stars
>align and you take first in both feature races. I strung together some
>in-car footage from three sessions that weekend and sent it to Bill. He
>and his son Dick watched it on the "Big Screen", I got the impression he
>was as excited as I was!
>
>In memory of Bill, I am sharing a view that he enjoyed for years,
>looking over the bonnet of Old Blue. You will be missed, my friend...
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCcXLlOR-k
>
>Henry Frye
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