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Joe Alexander
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> On Sep 14, 2017, at 3:39 PM, fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> I just got an email from Ed last Sunday evening, he was checking to see how
> things were in Fla.
> Damn, Ed was a good man, very sorry to hear this.
> Glen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Kramer via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> To: fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Sep 14, 2017 12:22 pm
> Subject: [Fot] Ed Barnard passed away
>
> FOT
>
> I?m not on the FOT list so I do not know if this news has made it to the
> community. I saw on on Facebook last night that Ed Barnard passed away
> unexpectedly Monday night. I knew he had a complicated medical situation but
> I don't know what happened. He leaves behind a blended family including
> Willie and Josh who we've met many times at the track and a bunch of folks
> who relied on him for everything from tech advice to restoring cars. He will
> be missed at the track and in the Triumph community.
>
> I first met Ed via the South Central VTR Regionals. I was still in the start
> up phase of the Hill Country Triumph Club, and combining roles as club
> president and doing the dot matrix printed RAGTOP monthly. I didn't know Ed
> at the time as but all the clubs shared newsletters and Ed handled the duties
> for the Red River Triumph Club. We had occasionally communicated about the
> various events going on around the state. I think he worked for Jeff Sloan?s
> British Auto Specialists at the time and was still racing his Spitfire.
> Anyway, in the RRTC newsletter, Ed had said some disparaging things about
> TR7's and being a defender of all things Triumph I called him to task for it.
> We were still a very small club at the time. Austin was in the early stages
> of massive growth and our younger demographics meant that we had a number of
> members with TR7's and 8's. We met and talked it out at the regional held in
> Houston and became friends. He was mostly kidding about the TR7's. I'm sure
> they grew on him over time as they have for pretty much everyone else.
>
> I really didn't get to know Ed until I started racing with CVAR. He was
> always at TWS helping in a variety of ways. He helped racers, helped the club
> and having an affinity for Triumphs he migrated to the Triumph pits daily. I
> always found it humorous, and I hope I don't offend anyone here, that some
> guys loved the work that Ed did on their race cars and some, rightfully or
> not, blamed him for the stuff that went wrong. The same guys, in a different
> year, might trade places and opinions about Ed's workmanship. The truth is he
> was a great resource. It's racing, stuff breaks. It isn't easy and you know
> what, if we are honest we know that we screw stuff up all the time in racing.
> Move on and smile, that's what Ed did.
>
> As the years went by I drove many a lap around TWS knowing that Ed was on a
> corner cheering on the Triumphs. We are not pro racers. Nobody is keeping
> stats. We race mostly for our own satisfaction and maybe to earn a little
> respect inside our clan. If you haven't ever raced you don't know the how it
> feels to get a race car with competitors all around you. Even after you've
> done it a hundred times the doubts and nerves still creep in. You get a
> little sick to your stomach; probably from influxes of anticipation driven
> adrenaline. The whistle blows, we start the cars and during the pace lap it
> all gets replaced with focus. We are supposed to check out the flag stations
> on that lap but I don't ever recall seeing Ed, but on the cool down lap
> there he would be, clapping his hands in approval.
>
> That's how I will remember Ed.
>
> Bob Kramer
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