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ad><body><div style=3D"font-size: 16px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: ari=
al, sans-serif;">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 th=
e race<div> <a href=3D"https://www.dropbox.com/s/kixjcx4ubusmbtf/on%20=
the%20grid.jpg?dl=3D0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/kixjcx4ubusmbtf/on%20the%2=
0grid.jpg?dl=3D0</a> And yes, it was on Hoosier Vintage tires.</div><=
div><br></div><div>I'm a 31 year member of SCCA and I've held a National li=
cense 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 ra=
ce car.</div><div><br></div><div>It had been a while since I'd driven my be=
autiful and well prepared TR3 (thanks to Glen Efinger!) and reviewing the u=
pcoming options to do so, most interfered with family travel plans for the =
summer. So, since this event was essentially in my back yard.....6 mi=
les from my driveway.....it was the perfect opportunity. For the prev=
ious month I sucked up to the Chief of Tech and the Race Chairman to let th=
e 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 n=
ot a flinch.</div><div><br></div><div>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.&nb=
sp; Then, I hold my breath for the first couple of laps wondering if the st=
ewards (SCCA has a ton of them at every event) would have me black flagged.=
They did not.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the bottom line - ther=
e must be something to those flares/slicks/fancy suspension/fancy brakes/af=
ter market transmissions and on and on. Tim's yellow Spit quickly bec=
ame 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 w=
as able to hold off the VW that was running last. But, even that didn=
t work for the entire 15 lap race and my 30+ year friend and I eventually f=
inished dead f&^ing last. Oh, well.</div><div><br></div><div>But,=
I have now checked off one more item from the list of things I'd like to a=
chieve. </div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><blockquote sty=
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10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;"><fot@autox.team.net>Sub=
ject: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???
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<div><font size=3D"2">I don't have any details, (I know nuthink!), but scut=
tlebutt is that a certain Vintage driver (name withheld to avoid possible e=
mbarrassment) showed up with a Vintage TR-3 racecar with Vintage treaded ti=
res on it, down at PBIR this past weekend... but... the problem was that it=
was a SCCA SAARC Regional race, no Vintage class.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"2">Not to be deterred by that minor detail, a couple pie=
ces of white paper and a home printer produced a very nice "EP"... and it w=
as "off to the races" for our intrepid Vintage race...<br>
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<div><font size=3D"2">Glen<br>
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