Agreed - lets do something positive. I'm sure we all have our piles
of broken bits / trophies. I've got a beat up corner of a car I
rolled hanging in the garage as wall art - and as a reminder that
keeping the wheels on the car is important. I like the Jimmy Coan /
Lanky F tribute and the Kas Cup winners tribute ideas.
Cheers, Tony
At 06:47 PM 12/19/2012, yellow04@tr4racer.com wrote:
>What I think is this. Burt is trying to find humor in the fact that we
>Triumph racers suffer a disproportional amount of DNF's compared to other
>marques. While there may be some truth to this, I do not believe
>perpetuating this thought in Burt's book does us any favors.
>
>We have lost some amazing wrenches recently, Jimmy Coan and Lankee F. My
>vote is we do something for them.
>
>Or we do a collage of Kastner Cup winners and cars.
>
>Or anything but a picture of a ventilated block, especially mine!
>
>Henry
>yellow04@tr4racer.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J.C. Hassall" <jhassall@blacksburg.net>
>To: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@sbcglobal.net>
>Cc: "fot" <fot@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [Fot] Another sponsorship for Levy's next book?
>
>
>
> > Burt said:
>
> > Fortunately for you (?) I'm still writing the blessed thing (full litany
> > of excuses available athttp://www.lastopenroad.com/lameexcuses1.html).
> > I expect to be done in the spring and have it out early summer. So you
> > still have plenty of time to line up your suck...er, "participating
> > members" and pick a theme. A shot of Henry Frye's motor with the hole
> > through the side at The Mitty might be nice....
> > Thanks for thinking of me (!!!!) and the participation by FOT is much
> > appreciated!
> >
> > I'm very pleasantly surprised at the commitment so far; so perhaps we
> > should start thinking of a theme for our "ad" if this goes forward.
> > Ideas? Henry, what do you think?
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