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Re: [MGB Kingpin in MGA (and other shocking topics)

To: Stan Hanks <stan@tta.com>, WSpohn4@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MGB Kingpin in MGA (and other shocking topics)
From: Derek <dereklola@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:18:12 -0800 (PST)
> > A Triumph is one of the very last cars you want 
> > to have to throw sideways to scrub off speed, and
> > every lap, doing 110 mph into the downhill hairpin, 
> > I had fleeting thoughts of mortality and a passing 
> > wonder at why I was subjecting myself to all of this.


> Oh come on now.... Back In the Day, no one objected 
> to that. Then again, it may be because they didn't 
> have "sissy cars" with power vented disk brakes and 
> sticky tires.

So was my uncle smart or crazy? He drove a TR2 at Le Mans.
And lasted the 24 hours. 1854.

Derek

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