This is starting to sound like SCCA. What's wrong with this picture!!
Russ
At 10:22 AM 11/24/98 -0500, Andrew Mace wrote:
>First Greg wrote (about Matt's Spitfire):
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>> >>This doesn't sound like a vintage car to me!
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>R. John Lye responded:
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>> >Uhhhh, Greg - This is a list for "triumph racers" not "triumph vintage
>> racers"......
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>Richard Taylor added:
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>> Uhhhh, John - I'd like to think that there is a little room left on the
>> list to accommodate Triumph Vintage Racers too, don'tcha think?
>
>Uhhhh GUYS AND GALS, I thought it was pretty much for anyone and everyone
>interested in virtually any and all sorts of competitive events involving
>the Triumph marque. You got your current SCCA production racers, you got
>your vintage racers, you got your autocrossers in both "prepped" cars and
>streetable cars, there might well be rallyists out there, and there are
>more than a few very interested and knowledgeable "observer/historian"
>types on the list.
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>All this "uhhhh" stuff is beginning to scare me. I thought for a moment I
>was at an online VTR membership meeting! :-)
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>--Andy
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>p.s. For Greg, Matt and others who might not know me, my "squatter's
>rights" on this list involve a whole bunch of years of local club-level
>rallying and autocrossing, primarily in a Spitfire Mk.3 then a GT6+ until
>circa 1983. At that point, a friend and I began autocrossing a rescued
>(similar to the way folks adopt "retired" racing Greyhound dogs) GP
>Spitfire -- the "Hardly Boys RaceSpit 4" -- still equipped and prepared to
>circa late 1960s Kastner and SCCA production spec's. Even still has the
>camber compensator! There's a picture of the car at
><http://www.imagin.net/~hensley/rrtcpics.html> (Thanks, Susan!) Oh, I do
>use somewhat more modern rubber, although I've got a fair supply of
>30-year-old Blue Streaks!
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>Note that this car might soon fall victim to the urge to radically alter
>same after all these years. I now have GT6 front uprights and brakes
>available, if I ever get around to putting it all on the RaceSpit. Only
>problem is, that might mean flushing out the last of the Girling Crimson
>Brake Fluid.... :-)
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