--===============5363585214984315806==
--000000000000268b4a05de394572
Jim Hill
I was touring Chris Beebe's Opus Car Museum last weekend with my Madison
British Car Group and I saw a TR4 racer pushed up a wall in a quite an
honorable spot. I asked, it was Jim Hill's.
On Wed, May 4, 2022, 4:55 PM <fot-request@autox.team.net> wrote:
> Send Fot mailing list submissions to
> fot@autox.team.net
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> fot-request@autox.team.net
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> fot-owner@autox.team.net
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Fot digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Robert Lang)
> 2. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Steven Belfer)
> 3. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Barr, Scott)
> 4. Transport of frame from the Connecticut to Midwest (IL or WI
> or whatever) (Barr, Scott)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 20:25:40 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Robert Lang <robertlangtr6@yahoo.com>
> To: "fot@autox.team.net" <fot@autox.team.net>, Mike Jackson
> <grandwazoo@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
> Message-ID: <419120323.4536414.1651695940333@mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> I saw Don race a few times, fun stuff. He knew how to "wheel" a car.
>
> Regarding the former Harkness car, it was purchased by Rich Bolton and he
> ran it for around 2 years but wound up getting side-tracked with his kids
> racing karts and his 50-foot yawl(!) - when I last checked in NOV 21, the
> Harkness was in a barn in Northern VT waiting for a new owner.
> I'm pretty sure it's still there as well as all the pieces to make it
> whole again.
> c ya (at PVGP),Bob Lang
>
> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 10:44:09 AM EDT, Mike Jackson via Fot <
> fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> It is great to? know that his car will continue to be used and run!? So
> many others just disappear.? One of my best friends to this day, John
> Harkness, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby? blue TR3 to great
> success.? He eventually sold his and we saw it entered in a race or two and
> then never again.? So sad, that thing flew and we had many great races.?
> This is my 35th year with my TR3.? We can only hope that when its my time
> to retire that someone will get it and love it as does Henry with
> Dentinger's car.
> ?
> Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes? from?? Bill owned
> a stone masonry contracting company? and did work on many iconic buildings
> in the Milwaukee area.? The name of the company was BDI - Bill Dentinger Inc
> ?
> Mike
> ?
> -----Original Message-----??
> From: yellow04
> Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
> ?
> Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4,
> prompted me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks
> ago on March 27, 2022.
> ?
> The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.
> ?
> While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the
> stuff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.
> ?
> More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a
> derelict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to
> prepare it so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to
> figure out the art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the
> first time, and I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye
> boys thought I needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing
> lunch time parade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed
> to get driven around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes,
> Don was the fastest of the bunch.
> ?
> These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers
> could put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get a
> birds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps.
> Apparently, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my
> memory is telling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the
> false grid. We are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent
> speed for turn one, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to
> brake, but since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1
> with tires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little
> straight heading for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed,
> Don just passes them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he
> continues to narrate his way around the course passing everybody. As we
> round the corner for the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for
> us, and no surprise to me Don gets black flagged. As w
> e are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't think we are
> supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slower. Don
> was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn 1 at
> speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutifully
> pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where he
> was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be
> driven at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know."
> ?
> Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels?
> Don insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He
> claimed he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he just
> kept running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on
> the steering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his
> motions, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almost
> see the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!
> ?
> Farewell, my friend.
> _______________________________________________
> fot@autox.team.net
> ?
> http://www.fot-racing.com
> ?
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Archive: ( (http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot (
> http://autox.team.net/archive)))
> Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net
> ?
> _______________________________________________
> fot@autox.team.net
>
> http://www.fot-racing.com
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot
> Unsubscribe/Manage <http://www.team.net/pipermail/fotUnsubscribe/Manage>:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com
>
>
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/5caece9b/attachment-0001.htm
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 13:38:37 -0700
> From: Steven Belfer <steve@artwithcars.com>
> To: FOT Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
> Message-ID: <7507FAEF-5B69-415C-91CD-17EE57EA0681@artwithcars.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Don was a very nice guy with a room brightening smile! My dad built an
> engine for Don?s 4 as well as ironed out the rear axle hop with some
> special links and bars to the rear axle. The car was pretty unreliable and
> unsafe before the upgrades. My dad, Mike, really enjoyed being with Don,
> Bill, and Bob, and was their de facto crew chief.
>
> Don once gave me a terrible T-shirt that said , It?s better with butter.
> And he took me aside to impart onto me a dairy trade secret that I shall
> pass in to you. Award winning Swiss cheese should have holes no smaller
> than a dime and no bigger than a nickel.
>
> Race in peace, Don
>
> ~Steve Belfer
>
>
> > On May 4, 2022, at 1:26 PM, Robert Lang via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > I saw Don race a few times, fun stuff. He knew how to "wheel" a car.
> >
> > Regarding the former Harkness car, it was purchased by Rich Bolton and
> he ran it for around 2 years but wound up getting side-tracked with his
> kids racing karts and his 50-foot yawl(!) - when I last checked in NOV 21,
> the Harkness was in a barn in Northern VT waiting for a new owner.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it's still there as well as all the pieces to make it
> whole again.
> >
> > c ya (at PVGP),
> > Bob Lang
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 10:44:09 AM EDT, Mike Jackson via Fot <
> fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It is great to know that his car will continue to be used and run! So
> many others just disappear. One of my best friends to this day, John
> Harkness, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby blue TR3 to great
> success. He eventually sold his and we saw it entered in a race or two and
> then never again. So sad, that thing flew and we had many great races.
> This is my 35th year with my TR3. We can only hope that when its my time
> to retire that someone will get it and love it as does Henry with
> Dentinger's car.
> >
> > Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes from? Bill
> owned a stone masonry contracting company and did work on many iconic
> buildings in the Milwaukee area. The name of the company was BDI - Bill
> Dentinger Inc
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yellow04
> > Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
> >
> > Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4,
> prompted me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks
> ago on March 27, 2022.
> >
> > The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.
> >
> > While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the
> stuff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.
> >
> > More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a
> derelict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to
> prepare it so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to
> figure out the art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the
> first time, and I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye
> boys thought I needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing
> lunch time parade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed
> to get driven around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes,
> Don was the fastest of the bunch.
> >
> > These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers
> could put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get a
> birds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps.
> Apparently, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my
> memory is telling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the
> false grid. We are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent
> speed for turn one, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to
> brake, but since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1
> with tires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little
> straight heading for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed,
> Don just passes them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he
> continues to narrate his way around the course passing everybody. As we
> round the corner for the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for
> us, and no surprise to me Don gets black flagged. As
> we are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't think we
> are supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slower.
> Don was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn 1 at
> speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutifully
> pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where he
> was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be
> driven at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know."
> >
> > Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels?
> Don insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He
> claimed he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he just
> kept running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on
> the steering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his
> motions, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almost
> see the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!
> >
> > Farewell, my friend.
> > _______________________________________________
> > fot@autox.team.net
> >
> > http://www.fot-racing.com
> >
> > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> > Archive: ( (http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot (
> http://autox.team.net/archive)))
> > Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > fot@autox.team.net
> >
> > http://www.fot-racing.com
> >
> > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> > Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot
> > Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > fot@autox.team.net
> >
> > http://www.fot-racing.com
> >
> > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> > Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot
> > Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/steve@artwithcars.com
> >
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/a70f30f1/attachment-0001.htm
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 21:25:06 +0000
> From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@McCarty-Law.com>
> To: Mike Jackson <grandwazoo@earthlink.net>, yellow04
> <yellow04@tr4racer.com>, "fot@autox.team.net" <fot@autox.team.net
> >
> Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
> Message-ID:
> <
> SJ0PR15MB4552FA197CFD2AEC9D973B67E1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
> >
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> << did work on many iconic buildings in the Milwaukee area. The name of
> the company was BDI - Bill Dentinger Inc >>
>
>
>
> And also in the Twin Cities where Bill's sons carry on the trade. Bill
> was proud of the work BDI did on the Minnesota World Trade Center (nka
> Wells Fargo Place).
>
>
>
> [cid:image001.png@01D85FD3.7F9F3CB0]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fot <fot-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Mike Jackson via Fot
> Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:42 AM
> To: yellow04 <yellow04@tr4racer.com>; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
>
>
>
> Sad news but we're all getting older and that crew had a head start.
> Surely they will live on in legend with the endless stories repeated over
> and over.
>
> It's not clear that vintage racing will ever again have characters like
> that.
>
>
>
> It was always such a thrill to be with the Beady Eye guys each year at
> Mid-Ohio. Nearly 20 straight years under the big oak tree in the grass
> paddock.
>
> Truth be told, Don was a much better driver than Bob and Bill. But, with
> those wire wheels and skinny tires he was only going to corner so fast and
> hence not lead often.
>
>
>
> Don worked for a cheese factory and always brought some of the stuff they
> produced for cheese contests. Who ever knew there was such a thing?
>
>
>
> I tried to talk Don out of retiring from racing in his last year of
> competition. Wiz and Bill wanted him to continue as well but he wasnt
> gonna change his mind.
>
>
>
> It is great to know that his car will continue to be used and run! So
> many others just disappear. One of my best friends to this day, John
> Harkness, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby blue TR3 to great
> success. He eventually sold his and we saw it entered in a race or two and
> then never again. So sad, that thing flew and we had many great races.
> This is my 35th year with my TR3. We can only hope that when its my time
> to retire that someone will get it and love it as does Henry with
> Dentinger's car.
>
>
>
> Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes from? Bill owned
> a stone masonry contracting company and did work on many iconic buildings
> in the Milwaukee area. The name of the company was BDI - Bill Dentinger Inc
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: yellow04
>
> Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM
>
> To:
>
> Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick
>
>
>
> Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4,
> prompted me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks
> ago on March 27, 2022.
>
>
>
> The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.
>
>
>
> While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the
> stuff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.
>
>
>
> More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a
> derelict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to
> prepare it so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to
> figure out the art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the
> first time, and I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye
> boys thought I needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing
> lunch time parade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed
> to get driven around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes,
> Don was the fastest of the bunch.
>
>
>
> These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers
> could put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get a
> birds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps.
> Apparently, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my
> memory is telling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the
> false grid. We are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent
> speed for turn one, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to
> brake, but since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1
> with tires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little
> straight heading for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed,
> Don just passes them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he
> continues to narrate his way around the course passing everybody. As we
> round the corner for the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for
> us, and no surprise to me Don gets black flagged. As w
> e are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't think we are
> supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slower. Don
> was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn 1 at
> speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutifully
> pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where he
> was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be
> driven at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know."
>
>
>
> Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels?
> Don insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He
> claimed he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he just
> kept running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on
> the steering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his
> motions, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almost
> see the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!
>
>
>
> Farewell, my friend.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
>
> http://www.fot-racing.com
>
>
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
>
> Archive: ( (http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot (
> http://autox.team.net/archive)))
>
> Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
>
> http://www.fot-racing.com
>
>
>
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
>
> Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot
>
> Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/sbarr@mccarty-law.com
>
>
>
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/396a3c55/attachment-0001.htm
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: image001.png
> Type: image/png
> Size: 382976 bytes
> Desc: image001.png
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/396a3c55/attachment-0001.png
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 21:49:15 +0000
> From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@McCarty-Law.com>
> To: "FOT@autox.team.net FOT@autox.team.net" <fot@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Fot] Transport of frame from the Connecticut to Midwest (IL
> or WI or whatever)
> Message-ID:
> <
> SJ0PR15MB4552582C7D3E812D11A7992CE1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
> >
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hey all,
>
> Many of you know that I've been working on putting my dad's old GT6 racer
> back on track. Well, "working on" is a strong way of putting it. Little
> progress for some time, as I've been really, really distracted by racing
> the Spec Racer Ford since my Spit Racer met its demise.
>
> Dad took the old GT6 Mk I apart to change it over to a rotoflex car from a
> swing axle car. Great idea, but he started with a Mk III frame that I had
> lying around and even though it's really supposed to be pretty similar it's
> just not in some ways.
>
> So Tim Hutchisen's got a good GT6+ frame, which should be a better place
> to start. But it needs to get from Henry's place in Connecticut to my
> place in Wisconsin. Anybody heading in the right direction with room for a
> GT6 frame?
>
> Scott (B.)
>
> Choices, choices...
>
> [cid:image001.png@01D85FD6.A60A90E0] [cid:image002.png@01D85FD6.A60A90E0]
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/attachment.htm
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: image001.png
> Type: image/png
> Size: 1194188 bytes
> Desc: image001.png
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/attachment.png
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: image002.png
> Type: image/png
> Size: 1301457 bytes
> Desc: image002.png
> URL: <
> http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/attachment-0001.png
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Digest Footer
>
> _______________________________________________
> Fot mailing list
> Fot@autox.team.net
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of Fot Digest, Vol 105, Issue 83
> ************************************
>
--000000000000268b4a05de394572
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<div dir=3D"auto">Jim Hill<div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I w=
as touring Chris Beebe's Opus Car Museum last=C2=A0weekend with my Madi=
son British Car Group and I saw a TR4 racer pushed up a wall in a quite an =
honorable spot. I asked, it was Jim Hill's.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br>=
</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div=
dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022, 4:55 PM <<a href=
=3D"mailto:fot-request@autox.team.net";>fot-request@autox.team.net</a>> w=
rote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex=
;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Fot mailing list submiss=
ions to<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D=
"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
<br>
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/mailman/listin=
fo/fot" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.n=
et/mailman/listinfo/fot</a><br>
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"mailto:fot-request@autox.team.net"; t=
arget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot-request@autox.team.net</a><br>
<br>
You can reach the person managing the list at<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"mailto:fot-owner@autox.team.net"; tar=
get=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot-owner@autox.team.net</a><br>
<br>
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>
than "Re: Contents of Fot digest..."<br>
<br>
<br>
Today's Topics:<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A01. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Robert Lang)<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A02. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Steven Belfer)<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A03. Re: RIP - Don Brick (Barr, Scott)<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A04. Transport of frame from the Connecticut to Midwest (IL or W=
I<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 or whatever) (Barr, Scott)<br>
<br>
<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 1<br>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 20:25:40 +0000 (UTC)<br>
From: Robert Lang <<a href=3D"mailto:robertlangtr6@yahoo.com"; target=3D"=
_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">robertlangtr6@yahoo.com</a>><br>
To: "<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"no=
referrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>" <<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team=
.net" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>>,=C2=
=A0 Mike Jackson<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<a href=3D"mailto:grandwazoo@earthlink.net"=
target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
o.com" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">419120323.4536414.1651695940333=
@mail.yahoo.com</a>><br>
<br>
=C2=A0I saw Don race a few times, fun stuff. He knew how to "wheel&quo=
t; a car.<br>
<br>
Regarding the former Harkness car, it was purchased by Rich Bolton and he r=
an it for around 2 years but wound up getting side-tracked with his kids ra=
cing karts and his 50-foot yawl(!) - when I last checked in NOV 21, the Har=
kness was in a barn in Northern VT waiting for a new owner.<br>
I'm pretty sure it's still there as well as all the pieces to make =
it whole again.<br>
c ya (at PVGP),Bob Lang<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 10:44:09 AM EDT, Mike Jackson via =
Fot <<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nore=
ferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:=C2=A0 <br>
<br>
It is great to? know that his car will continue to be used and run!? So man=
y others just disappear.? One of my best friends to this day, John Harkness=
, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby? blue TR3 to great success.? He eve=
ntually sold his and we saw it entered in a race or two and then never agai=
n.? So sad, that thing flew and we had many great races.? This is my 35th y=
ear with my TR3.? We can only hope that when its my time to retire that som=
eone will get it and love it as does Henry with Dentinger's car.<br>
?<br>
Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes? from?? Bill owned =
a stone masonry contracting company? and did work on many iconic buildings =
in the Milwaukee area.? The name of the company was BDI - Bill Dentinger In=
c<br>
?<br>
Mike<br>
?<br>
-----Original Message-----??<br>
From: yellow04<br>
Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM<br>
To:<br>
Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
?<br>
Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4, prompte=
d me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks ago on Ma=
rch 27, 2022.<br>
?<br>
The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.<br>
?<br>
While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the stu=
ff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.<br>
?<br>
More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a derel=
ict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to prepare it =
so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to figure out the =
art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the first time, and=
I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye boys thought I=
needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing lunch time par=
ade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed to get driven=
around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes, Don was the f=
astest of the bunch.<br>
?<br>
These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers co=
uld put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get a bi=
rds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps. Apparently=
, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my memory is tel=
ling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the false grid. We =
are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent speed for turn o=
ne, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to brake, but =
since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1 with t=
ires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little straight hea=
ding for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed, Don just pa=
sses them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he continues to narra=
te his way around the course passing everybody. As we round the corner for =
the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for us, and no surprise t=
o me Don gets black flagged. As w<br>
=C2=A0e are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't thin=
k we are supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slowe=
r. Don was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn 1 =
at speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutiful=
ly pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where he=
was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be driv=
en at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know.=
"<br>
?<br>
Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels? Do=
n insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He claimed =
he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he just kep=
t running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on the s=
teering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his motion=
s, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almost se=
e the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!<br>
?<br>
Farewell, my friend.<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">=
fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
?<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
?<br>
errer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
Archive: ( (<a href=3D"http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot"; rel=3D"noreferrer=
noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a> (<a hr=
ef=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive)" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive)</a>))<br>
andwazoo@earthlink.net" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">htt=
p://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a><br>
?<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">=
fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
<br>
errer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
Archive: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive"; rel=3D"noreferrer norefe=
rrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a> <a href=3D"http:/=
/www.team.net/pipermail/fotUnsubscribe/Manage" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer=
" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot<br>
t/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">=
http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/5caece9b/attachment-0001.htm" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/5caece9b/atta=
chment-0001.htm</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 2<br>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 13:38:37 -0700<br>
From: Steven Belfer <<a href=3D"mailto:steve@artwithcars.com"; target=3D"=
_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">steve@artwithcars.com</a>><br>
To: FOT Triumph <<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank"=
rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
ithcars.com" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">7507FAEF-5B69-415C-91CD-1=
7EE57EA0681@artwithcars.com</a>><br>
<br>
Don was a very nice guy with a room brightening smile!=C2=A0 My dad built a=
n engine for Don?s 4 as well as ironed out the rear axle hop with some spec=
ial links and bars to the rear axle. The car was pretty unreliable and unsa=
fe before the upgrades.=C2=A0 My dad, Mike, really enjoyed being with Don, =
Bill, and Bob, and was their de facto crew chief. <br>
<br>
Don once gave me a terrible T-shirt that said , It?s better with butter.=C2=
=A0 And he took me aside to impart onto me a dairy trade secret that I shal=
l pass in to you.=C2=A0 Award winning Swiss cheese should have holes no sma=
ller than a dime and no bigger than a nickel.=C2=A0 <br>
<br>
Race in peace, Don<br>
<br>
~Steve Belfer<br>
<br>
<br>
> On May 4, 2022, at 1:26 PM, Robert Lang via Fot <<a href=3D"mailto:=
fot@autox.team.net" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net=
</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> ?<br>
> I saw Don race a few times, fun stuff. He knew how to "wheel"=
; a car.<br>
> <br>
> Regarding the former Harkness car, it was purchased by Rich Bolton and=
he ran it for around 2 years but wound up getting side-tracked with his ki=
ds racing karts and his 50-foot yawl(!) - when I last checked in NOV 21, th=
e Harkness was in a barn in Northern VT waiting for a new owner.<br>
> <br>
> I'm pretty sure it's still there as well as all the pieces to =
make it whole again.<br>
> <br>
> c ya (at PVGP),<br>
> Bob Lang<br>
> <br>
> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 10:44:09 AM EDT, Mike Jackson via Fot <<=
a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">f=
ot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> It is great to=C2=A0 know that his car will continue to be used and ru=
n!=C2=A0 So many others just disappear.=C2=A0 One of my best friends to thi=
s day, John Harkness, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby=C2=A0 blue TR3 =
to great success.=C2=A0 He eventually sold his and we saw it entered in a r=
ace or two and then never again.=C2=A0 So sad, that thing flew and we had m=
any great races.=C2=A0 This is my 35th year with my TR3.=C2=A0 We can only =
hope that when its my time to retire that someone will get it and love it a=
s does Henry with Dentinger's car.<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes=C2=A0 from?=C2=
=A0 Bill owned a stone masonry contracting company=C2=A0 and did work on ma=
ny iconic buildings in the Milwaukee area.=C2=A0 The name of the company wa=
s BDI - Bill Dentinger Inc<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Mike<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> -----Original Message-----=C2=A0 <br>
> From: yellow04<br>
> Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM<br>
> To:<br>
> Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4, pr=
ompted me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks ago =
on March 27, 2022.<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are th=
e stuff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a =
derelict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to prepar=
e it so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to figure out=
the art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the first time=
, and I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye boys thou=
ght I needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing lunch tim=
e parade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed to get d=
riven around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes, Don was =
the fastest of the bunch.<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the race=
rs could put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get=
a birds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps. Appar=
ently, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my memory i=
s telling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the false grid=
. We are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent speed for t=
urn one, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to brake,=
but since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1 w=
ith tires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little straigh=
t heading for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed, Don ju=
st passes them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he continues to =
narrate his way around the course passing everybody. As we round the corner=
for the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for us, and no surpr=
ise to me Don gets black flagged. As<br>
=C2=A0 we are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't th=
ink we are supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slo=
wer. Don was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn =
1 at speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutif=
ully pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where =
he was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be dr=
iven at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't kno=
w."<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheel=
s? Don insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He cla=
imed he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he jus=
t kept running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on =
the steering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his m=
otions, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almo=
st see the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!<br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Farewell, my friend.<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> <a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"norefer=
rer">fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> <a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> Donate: <a href=3D"http://www.team.net/donate.html"; rel=3D"noreferrer =
noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
> Archive: ( (<a href=3D"http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot"; rel=3D"noref=
errer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a> (=
<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive)" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive)</a>))<br>
> Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/f=
ot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank=
">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a><br=
>
>=C2=A0 <br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> <a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"norefer=
rer">fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
> <br>
> <a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
> <br>
> Donate: <a href=3D"http://www.team.net/donate.html"; rel=3D"noreferrer =
noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
> Archive: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive"; rel=3D"noreferrer n=
oreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a> <a href=3D"h=
ttp://www.team.net/pipermail/fot" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_=
blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a><br>
> Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/f=
ot/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank"=
>http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/robertlangtr6@yahoo.com</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> <a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"norefer=
rer">fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
> <br>
> <a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
> <br>
> Donate: <a href=3D"http://www.team.net/donate.html"; rel=3D"noreferrer =
noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
> Archive: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive"; rel=3D"noreferrer n=
oreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a> <a href=3D"h=
ttp://www.team.net/pipermail/fot" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_=
blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a><br>
> Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/f=
ot/steve@artwithcars.com" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttp://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/steve@artwithcars.com</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/a70f30f1/attachment-0001.htm" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/a70f30f1/atta=
chment-0001.htm</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 3<br>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 21:25:06 +0000<br>
From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@McCarty-Law.com><br>
To: Mike Jackson <<a href=3D"mailto:grandwazoo@earthlink.net"; target=3D"=
_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a>>, yellow04<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<a href=3D"mailto:yellow04@tr4racer.com"; ta=
rget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">yellow04@tr4racer.com</a>>,=C2=A0 &qu=
ot;<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferre=
r">fot@autox.team.net</a>" <<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; t=
arget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
Message-ID:<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<a href=3D"mailto:SJ0PR15MB4552FA197CFD2AEC=
9D973B67E1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.namprd15.prod.outlook.com" target=3D"_blank" re=
l=3D"noreferrer">SJ0PR15MB4552FA197CFD2AEC9D973B67E1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.nampr=
d15.prod.outlook.com</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
<< did work on many iconic buildings in the Milwaukee area.=C2=A0 The=
name of the company was BDI - Bill Dentinger Inc >><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And also in the Twin Cities where Bill's sons carry on the trade.=C2=A0=
Bill was proud of the work BDI did on the Minnesota World Trade Center (nk=
a Wells Fargo Place).<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[cid:image001.png@01D85FD3.7F9F3CB0]<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Fot <<a href=3D"mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blan=
k" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> On Behalf Of Mike =
Jackson via Fot<br>
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:42 AM<br>
To: yellow04 <<a href=3D"mailto:yellow04@tr4racer.com"; target=3D"_blank"=
rel=3D"noreferrer">yellow04@tr4racer.com</a>>; <a href=3D"mailto:fot@au=
tox.team.net" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a><b=
r>
Subject: Re: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sad news but we're all getting older and that crew had a head start.=C2=
=A0 Surely they will live on in legend with the endless stories repeated ov=
er and over.<br>
<br>
It's not clear that vintage racing will ever again have characters like=
that.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
It was always such a thrill to be with the Beady Eye guys each year at Mid-=
Ohio.=C2=A0 Nearly 20 straight years under the big oak tree in the grass pa=
ddock.<br>
<br>
Truth be told, Don was a much better driver than Bob and Bill.=C2=A0 But, w=
ith those wire wheels and skinny tires he was only going to corner=C2=A0 so=
fast and hence not lead often.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Don worked for a cheese factory and always brought some of the stuff they p=
roduced for cheese contests.=C2=A0 Who ever knew there was such a thing?<br=
>
<br>
<br>
<br>
I tried to=C2=A0 talk Don out of retiring from racing in his last year of c=
ompetition.=C2=A0 Wiz and Bill wanted him to continue as well but he wasnt =
gonna change his mind.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
It is great to=C2=A0 know that his car will continue to be used and run!=C2=
=A0 So many others just disappear.=C2=A0 One of my best friends to this day=
, John Harkness, lived quite close to Mid-O ran a baby=C2=A0 blue TR3 to gr=
eat success.=C2=A0 He eventually sold his and we saw it entered in a race o=
r two and then never again.=C2=A0 So sad, that thing flew and we had many g=
reat races.=C2=A0 This is my 35th year with my TR3.=C2=A0 We can only hope =
that when its my time to retire that someone will get it and love it as doe=
s Henry with Dentinger's car.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Say - does everyone know where the Beady Eye name comes=C2=A0 from?=C2=A0 B=
ill owned a stone masonry contracting company=C2=A0 and did work on many ic=
onic buildings in the Milwaukee area.=C2=A0 The name of the company was BDI=
- Bill Dentinger Inc<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
<br>
From: yellow04<br>
<br>
Sent: May 4, 2022 8:14 AM<br>
<br>
To:<br>
<br>
Subject: [Fot] RIP - Don Brick<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Responding to Brian McEldowney, the new owner of the Don Brick TR4, prompte=
d me to do a google search. I just realized we lost Don six weeks ago on Ma=
rch 27, 2022.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
The last of the original Beady Eye gang. Sad.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
While the stories of the shenanigans Bill, Bob and Don got into are the stu=
ff of legend, there is one story about Don I will never forget.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
More years ago that I care to admit, I am beginner racer who bought a derel=
ict TR4 racecar and was trying desperately to figure out how to prepare it =
so it would finish weekends, and more importantly trying to figure out the =
art and science of race craft. I show up at Grattan for the first time, and=
I am not sure I can say I was struggling, but the Beady Eye boys thought I=
needed a primer on the track. VSCDA had a practice of doing lunch time par=
ade laps at Grattan, so they cooked up the idea that I needed to get driven=
around the track by their resident hot shoe, Don Brick. Yes, Don was the f=
astest of the bunch.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
These parade laps were done in race cars, and the premise was the racers co=
uld put their family, friends, crew, etc. in the passenger seat to get a bi=
rds eye view of the track. No passing, just some leisurely laps. Apparently=
, Don didn?t get the memo... Don and I climb into his TR4, my memory is tel=
ling me we had no fire suits or helmets, and proceed to the false grid. We =
are waived onto the track, and Don nails it. We get decent speed for turn o=
ne, and Don is narrating. "This is where I usually have to brake, but =
since we are not at speed yet...", he brakes late, turns into 1 with t=
ires at full chat. We slide around turn one, and on the little straight hea=
ding for 2, we come up on the first car doing parade lap speed, Don just pa=
sses them! At this point, Don is at racing speed, and he continues to narra=
te his way around the course passing everybody. As we round the corner for =
the start/finish straight, the flagger is waiting for us, and no surprise t=
o me Don gets black flagged. As w<br>
=C2=A0e are going down the straight for turn 1, I tell Don I don't thin=
k we are supposed to be going full tilt, everybody else is going much slowe=
r. Don was not deterred, he needed to show me his braking point for turn 1 =
at speed! We proceeded to do that second lap way too fast, then Don dutiful=
ly pulled into pit lane and was directed to the black flag station where he=
was given the stern warning that lunchtime parade laps were not to be driv=
en at speed. Don's reply with a smile, "Oh, OK, I didn't know.=
"<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Anybody else remember running with Don and watching his red wire wheels? Do=
n insisted on running that same set of red painted wire wheels. He claimed =
he finally got a set of wheels that didn't break spokes, so he just kep=
t running them. It was disconcerting to see Don in the seat sawing on the s=
teering wheel, and you could see the hubs on the car moving with his motion=
s, but the rim and tires couldn't keep up the hubs, you could almost se=
e the spokes stretching with every turn of the steering wheel!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Farewell, my friend.<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">=
fot@autox.team.net</a><mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
errer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
<br>
Archive: ( (<a href=3D"http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot"; rel=3D"noreferrer=
noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a> (<a hr=
ef=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive)" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive)</a>))<br>
<br>
andwazoo@earthlink.net" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">htt=
p://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">=
fot@autox.team.net</a><mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.fot-racing.com"; rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
errer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>
<br>
Archive: <a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/archive"; rel=3D"noreferrer norefe=
rrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a> <a href=3D"http:/=
/www.team.net/pipermail/fot" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank=
">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a><br>
<br>
arr@mccarty-law.com" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http:/=
/autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/sbarr@mccarty-law.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/396a3c55/attachment-0001.htm" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/396a3c55/atta=
chment-0001.htm</a>><br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>
Name: image001.png<br>
Type: image/png<br>
Size: 382976 bytes<br>
Desc: image001.png<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/396a3c55/attachment-0001.png" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/396a3c55/atta=
chment-0001.png</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Message: 4<br>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 21:49:15 +0000<br>
From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@McCarty-Law.com><br>
To: "<a href=3D"mailto:FOT@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"no=
referrer">FOT@autox.team.net</a> <a href=3D"mailto:FOT@autox.team.net"; targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">FOT@autox.team.net</a>" <<a href=
=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">fot@aut=
ox.team.net</a>><br>
Subject: [Fot] Transport of frame from the Connecticut to Midwest (IL<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 or WI or whatever)<br>
Message-ID:<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<a href=3D"mailto:SJ0PR15MB4552582C7D3E812D=
11A7992CE1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.namprd15.prod.outlook.com" target=3D"_blank" re=
l=3D"noreferrer">SJ0PR15MB4552582C7D3E812D11A7992CE1C39@SJ0PR15MB4552.nampr=
d15.prod.outlook.com</a>><br>
<br>
<br>
Hey all,<br>
<br>
Many of you know that I've been working on putting my dad's old GT6=
racer back on track.=C2=A0 Well, "working on" is a strong way of=
putting it.=C2=A0 Little progress for some time, as I've been really, =
really distracted by racing the Spec Racer Ford since my Spit Racer met its=
demise.<br>
<br>
Dad took the old GT6 Mk I apart to change it over to a rotoflex car from a =
swing axle car.=C2=A0 Great idea, but he started with a Mk III frame that I=
had lying around and even though it's really supposed to be pretty sim=
ilar it's just not in some ways.<br>
<br>
So Tim Hutchisen's got a good GT6+ frame, which should be a better plac=
e to start.=C2=A0 But it needs to get from Henry's place in Connecticut=
to my place in Wisconsin.=C2=A0 Anybody heading in the right direction wit=
h room for a GT6 frame?<br>
<br>
Scott (B.)<br>
<br>
Choices, choices...<br>
<br>
[cid:image001.png@01D85FD6.A60A90E0]=C2=A0 [cid:image002.png@01D85FD6.A60A9=
0E0]<br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/f92140f0/attachment.htm" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">=
http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/attachmen=
t.htm</a>><br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>
Name: image001.png<br>
Type: image/png<br>
Size: 1194188 bytes<br>
Desc: image001.png<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/f92140f0/attachment.png" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">=
http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/attachmen=
t.png</a>><br>
-------------- next part --------------<br>
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>
Name: image002.png<br>
Type: image/png<br>
Size: 1301457 bytes<br>
Desc: image002.png<br>
URL: <<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/2022050=
4/f92140f0/attachment-0001.png" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20220504/f92140f0/atta=
chment-0001.png</a>><br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
Subject: Digest Footer<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Fot mailing list<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:Fot@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">=
Fot@autox.team.net</a><br>
<a href=3D"http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot"; rel=3D"noreferrer no=
referrer" target=3D"_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot</a><=
br>
<br>
<br>
------------------------------<br>
<br>
End of Fot Digest, Vol 105, Issue 83<br>
************************************<br>
</blockquote></div>
--000000000000268b4a05de394572--
--===============5363585214984315806==
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
_______________________________________________
fot@autox.team.net
http://www.fot-racing.com
Archive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot
--===============5363585214984315806==--
|
