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[TR] 65 mph

Subject: [TR] 65 mph
From: triosan at gmail.com (Chuck Arnold and/or Kathleen Kelley)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:57:19 -0700
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Hit 132 in my Tr6 racer yesterday -- shakes not too bad, wish the brakes
were better.


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:47 PM, <thenicholls at verizon.net> wrote:

> I have a totally unmodified 72 TR6.  My friend asked if he could drive it.
>  When he got towards 100 MPH, I almost crapped myself.  Thing was shaking
> like it was going to explode.
>
> I had muscle cars in high school, don't feel a need to go their, and all
> the TR people actually drive the cars.
>
> Don't think I have been above 75 since.
>
> Craig
> Vienna, VA
> 72 TR6
>
>
> Sep 16, 2011 12:30:22 AM, sumton at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> I have a very modified TR6. but above 90 I get a little scared. this thing
> is 40 years old. and open. I did 140 in a relatively new enclosed car with
> crumple zones and airbags etc. but this little car . . .
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Andrew Uprichard"
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:15 PM
> To: "'Joe DeMuth'" ;
> Subject: [TR] 65 mph
>
> > Joe! You rarely drive faster than 65mph? I am going to take the fifth on
> > this, but I was speaking to a guy at the Battle of the Brits (annual show
> > for the Detroit Triumph Sportscar Club last Sunday - and well attended)
> > who
> > had just bought an unrestored TR3 from Canada a month previously. He had
> > gotten caught in a thunderstorm and said how he did 95mph to get home
> dry.
> >
> > My TR3 has clocked 105 by some reckless individual. I'd be interested in
> > knowing of other owners: cautious cruising or spurious speeding??? And
> > what happens on this chat page stays on this chat page......
> >
> > Andrew Uprichard
>
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-- 
Chuck Arnold and Kathleen Kelley

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