[Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???

[JOHN DAVIES]

What?    You have to use slicks for your production/modded car racing?    Just the opposite here in the UK - club racing, unless single seaters, uses treaded tyres, often Yokohamas with medium or soft tread.
Each to their own.  
What are the regs for the Kastner Trophy?
John----Original message----
>From : fot at autox.team.net
Date : 23/05/2019 - 14:31 (GMTST)
To : grandwazoo at earthlink.net, fubog1 at aol.com, fot at Autox.Team.Net
Subject : Re: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???
Bill Emory is smiling down on you Mike. For those of you who don’t know who 
Bill Emory is / was; I’ll tell you a bit about him. He was a member of the Steel 
Cities SCCA and raced a TR3 for more than 40 years mostly at Nelson Ledges in 
Ohio but at other regional tracks as well. I first met Bill in 1969 while 
crewing for a friend who raced a TR4. There were parts on his car from Donna Mae 
Mimms pink TR3 which I believe Tim at Grassroots has as well as Bill’s TR3. 
Somewhere there is an article about Bill in one of the Steel Cities newsletters 
who at one point honored him for his racing legend. Maybe someone has a link to 
that article. So Mike good for you to honor those who went before you, Bill was 
one of many TR3 SCCA racers.
From: Mike 
Jackson via Fot 
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:12 AM
To: fubog1 ; fot at Autox.Team.Net 
Subject: Re: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded 
tires???
Yes, 
it was me (English teacher wife says it should be Yes, it was I) with my vintage 
TR3 in the  SCCA race last weekend at Palm Beach International 
Raceway.  Here is a link to us on the grid for the race 
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/kixjcx4ubusmbtf/on%20the%20grid.jpg?dl=0  
And yes, it was on Hoosier Vintage tires.
I'm a 31 year member of SCCA and I've held a National license for all those 
years but had NEVER been in an actual classed race with any car meeting the 
requirements of a class.  I'd long held a desire to do so before I retired 
from racing but I'm too cheap to rent a modern race car.
It had been a while since I'd driven my beautiful and well prepared TR3 
(thanks to Glen Efinger!) and reviewing the upcoming options to do so, most 
interfered with family travel plans for the summer.  So, since this event 
was essentially in my back yard.....6 miles from my driveway.....it was the 
perfect opportunity.  For the previous month I sucked up to the Chief of 
Tech and the Race Chairman to let the things that prevented my car from being 
fully EP legal slide for this one time.  That worked well and we slid thru 
registration and tech with not a flinch.
The next opportunity for it to go bad was on the grid.  But, as you 
can see in the pic, there I was next to a fully prepared Spitfire driven by my 
friend and team mate Tim Slater.  Then, I hold my breath for the first 
couple of laps wondering if the stewards (SCCA has a ton of them at every event) 
would have me black flagged.  They did not.
Here's the bottom line - there must be something to those 
flares/slicks/fancy suspension/fancy brakes/after market transmissions and on 
and on.  Tim's yellow Spit quickly became a dot ahead of me in spite of my 
lap times being in the range of what I can turn on this same track in a vintage 
race.   For a while I was able to hold off the VW that was running 
last.  But, even that didnt work for the entire 15 lap race and my 30+ year 
friend and I eventually finished dead f&^ing last.  Oh, well.
But, I have now checked off one more item from the list of things I'd like 
to achieve.  
Mike
Subject: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires??? 
  
  
  
I don't have any details, (I know nuthink!), but scuttlebutt 
  is that a certain Vintage driver (name withheld to avoid possible 
  embarrassment) showed up with a Vintage TR-3 racecar with Vintage treaded 
  tires on it, down at PBIR this past weekend... but... the problem was that it 
  was a SCCA SAARC Regional race, no Vintage class.
  
Not to be deterred by that minor detail, a couple pieces of 
  white paper and a home printer produced a very nice "EP"... and it was "off to 
  the races" for our intrepid Vintage race...
  
  
Glen
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