[Fot] 1992 First of the great TRiumph reunions?

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That is the race that started it all for me.  My dad and I went to that race because Paul Smock and Bill Burroughs were going to make the cross country trip to be in it.  They chickened out, but we still went.  I remember the group 44 TR8 being really quick.  I also remember seeing Tulius and other group 44 people there with one of their XJS race cars for sale.  I don’t remember any details except they were selling it for $7K.  Hindsight is 20-20!

I bought an SCCA Spitfire after that and the rest, shall we say, is history.

The number 14 car was raced by Ralph Thomas.  That’s the Kastner Brophy Vitesse which I have now.  It will be coming back to Mid-Ohio for the Kastner Cup.

Chuck

>> On May 23, 2020, at 5:06 AM, Mike Jackson via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> FOT -
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> As far as I know the first of the great TRiumph reunion races was held in 1992 at Mid-Ohio with SVRA.  This event pre-dated what is now called the Kastner Cup.  But, it was a huge deal in the vintage racing community at the time.
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> You will find attached three things:
> Panoramic photo taken in pit lane.  There is a great story just about the camera used to take it!  I have numbered the cars in the photo so that you can help identify the drivers that a few of us have not been able to fill in.  I've tried several times to send this as an attachment but I guess it is too big for the list.  So, it is now on Dropbox and you can get is thru this link.  I'm no Dropbox expert!  But, you can download it to your computer so that you can blow it up and pan thru it and see the detail.  If you write back with a driver ID that I'm missing dont use the race car number, use the little annotations I've added to each car.
>   use this link     https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mhrjgqwwzrse9n/Triumph%20reunion%201992%20numbered.pdf?dl=0  you do NOT need to have a Dropbox account.
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> The list in the order of the annotated numbers with the names we think we have right is an attached file.
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> A list of possible drivers that Glen Efinger unearthed from his files.  Clearly not an official SVRA document.  Not sure of the origin.  Also attached
> The picture you will need to download and blow up to pan thru.  Hey!  It's about 4 ft long on my wall and I took it to an imaging shop to get it scaned.  But, the resolution is pretty good.  If you can fill in any of the missing names on my list, please do so.  Or, if I have any wrong, help correct it.  I have tried to figure out how many of us are still alive, much less still racing.  Thankfully lots of the former but I'm not sure if more than a handful of us still race.
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> Mike Jackson - 62 TR3B #62
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