Peter,
I suppose we could toss in a few Morgans to drop sawdust and soak up the
oil, but we're all used to self-lubed rear tires and we might not be able
to navigate with the newly found traction. Anyway, we plan on using the
"leaking oil" arguement when we smoke screen those MG's behind us. This of
course will draw appropriate fire from some of the jockeys of Morris Garage
iron, but our spies tell us they too have similar plans. I understand John
Target is installing an O2 system in his car in anticipation. As a last
ditch effort at overall victory the Spitfire Squadron can always engage the
Midgets in an axle toss, on or off the track, their choice. Many of have
practiced on track at speed, anything less will be easy.
This promises to be a great event. I am starting to buy the Guiness and
Bass Ale now, so we don't find ourselves lean in times of need. Now if only
those damn Lucas refrigerators hold up........
Russ
At 03:17 PM 3/9/99 -0500, Peter L. Krause wrote:
>I have a set of 35DCO3 sand cast Webers taken off a running 1098 cc
>Climax FWA with manifolds for offer. Please e-mail off list for details.
>
>The closer we get to Mid Ohio and the gathering of the TR faithful, the
>more concerned I am about the extraordinary environmental conflagration
>that is likely to occur when critical mass of old, tired and very leaky
>British iron assembles south of Mansfield this summer. In Group One,
>I've had fun with Bob Watkin and Russ Moore in their Spitfires (and
>waved to Sean and Pat as they go by...) and I've had a delightful time
>battling it out with Larry Rossi (why isn't he on the list?), George
>Wright, Mike Jackson (Puleeze drive the Devin!), Richard Hone, Alan
>Taylor and Jeff Snook in Group Three. I realize that my kind (my car's
>manufacturer is famous for trading car factories to countries behind the
>Iron Curtain for cheesy, cheap steel to make their own cars...) are
>under represented and subject to the same "leaker" jokes as y'all are,
>but I'm recommending to Jack Woehrle that there be some kind of cap on
>entries to the race group I'm in, specifically to maintain the track in
>a non-oily state! There's only one of me and a whole heap of y'all! Then
>there are the folks that use y'alls engines in cars that have termite
>nests for frames! Now we have Ed Berre and Harry Gaunt, not to mention
>Hank Giffin to worry about...Fellas, there IS such a product known as
>RTV, if you have to have some connection to the mother country, try
>Hylomar, just use SOMETHING!...(I hope I don't jinx myself with this
>rant...)
>
>Seriously, it sounds like you have a wonderful group coming to celebrate
>this summer. I'm looking forward to meeting many of the people who's
>names I see on this list and pictures I see in the Vintage Motorsport
>Annual. Good Luck! -Peter Krause
> (a pasta cookin' Fiat in a train of Triumphs...)
>
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