I had the same thing happen to me at the Roadster
Factory summer party. Most peole see an 18 year old
in an event and just ignore it, but I showed them with
a number 1 trophy. I was definatly caught off gaurd.
It just goes to show how well these Triumph really
are.
Mark Holbrook
1969 GT6+ Convertible
--- Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net> wrote:
>
> Good Work Graham!!!
>
> Joe
>
> Graham Stretch wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> > I took my 2000 MKI saloon to our local autox
> meeting a couple of weeks ago,
> > first time ever, for both of us. Did the wrong
> route the first run then four
> > good runs had a blast! (venue limit 5 runs)
> Helped a friend load his special
> > onto a trailer then went home. Got the news letter
> this weekend, I should have
> > stayed to collect first in class! I thought I was
> well off the pace.
> > Other cars were
> > Toyota (with 2 different drivers)
> > Vauxhall Cavalier New type FWD (2different
> drivers)
> > Mitsubishi? Colt
> > Ford Capri
> > Fiat Saloon (lada shape)
> >
> > I also placed 13 over all out of 29. So all in all
> a very surprising weekend
> > with a mainly standard 1968 saloon car.
> > Modifications are 3.45:1 diff instead of 4.11:1
> Fitted when I was using the
> > car for continental touring to keep the revs down.
> (doesn't do much for the
> > acceleration.)
> > A stainless sports exhaust, Cheaper than the
> standard one (do I need a better
> > excuse).
> > MKII rear suspension, a couple of inches wider
> than the original. Original was
> > shot and I had the MKII in my shed.
> > Poly bushes as the 30 YO originals were
> understandably shot.
> > These are all the mods. I entered the standard
> class safe in the knowledge I
> > was in a very uncompetitive car and had no chance
> to win, oops! This is a
> > point and squirt event relying on acceleration.
> The question to those in the
> > know, should I have been in the modified class
> with the 4.1 litre V8 grass
> > track specials based on the list of mods above. If
> so I will hand back the
> > class win and re-register in the other class.
> > Thanks for your time.
=====
-Mark Holbrook-
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