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Re: Was "Alfa GTAm Fender Flares" now TR4 flares

To: Jim Hill <jrhill1@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: Was "Alfa GTAm Fender Flares" now TR4 flares
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:43:27 -0600
To all,

In the Triumph documentary on Sebring '63 there's a section on the crude
flares they had to fabricate to pass tech....

WST
Team Thicko


Jim Hill wrote:

> Don Marshall asked:
>
> > were flares used on TR4 racers in the '60s?  I'm busy
> > installing some on my '63 TR4 for autocrossing and wonder
> > whether I can use the same car if I decide to go vintage
> > racing someday.  The Kastner competition prep manual has a
> > couple pictures (without flares), but that's all I have to go
> > by so far.
>
> There were no flares on the Kastner-prepared, Charlie
> Gates-driven TR4 in 1963 when I raced against it (and I had a
> real good view of it as it lapped me). There was also a list of
> factory-supplied TR4 competition parts at the time, and flares
> were not on the list. On the other hand, these are 35 year old
> memories, and I don't know what may have been SCCA approved or
> tolerated after 1964 . . .
>
> Jim Hill
> Madison WI





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