- 1. Tire (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:16:03 EDT
- Been talk of tires for 15-inch wheels on both lists (TR2-3 and MGA). When my last set of Goodrich Comp TAs finally started to look like slicks, I bit the bullet and bought new tires. Talking back and
- /html/fot/2005-09/msg00266.html (6,713 bytes)
- 2. Re: [MGVR] Tire (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:17:37 EDT
- The apparent condundrum this poses is intriguing -- seems as if everyone hates the few tires that are totally pukka for the really picky vintage race groups, and those groups insist that the tires th
- /html/fot/2005-09/msg00268.html (7,184 bytes)
- 3. Rules, Accidents, and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:20:38 EDT
- While the speed and power (legal or otherwise) of the cars involved in the BRIC incident certainly contributed to the intensity of the outcome, and that power may attract a certain personality of dri
- /html/fot/2005-07/msg00274.html (9,736 bytes)
- 4. Concours Competitions among Triumphs (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:18:59 EDT
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- /html/fot/2005-07/msg00298.html (6,572 bytes)
- 5. More Triumph Rumors (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:53:50 EDT
- Picked up a new rumor from across the pond -- or at least a new echo of an old rumor -- that BMW is soon going to be announcing a new small roadster, designed in price and performance to go up agains
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00230.html (6,927 bytes)
- 6. Young Drivers-Preachy (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 20:11:12 EDT
- A few thoughts I've gleaned as an auto journalist and author of a book that includes advice on safe, fun driving. Autocross experience: Terrific way to learn car control. Doesn't teach everything, bu
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00395.html (7,763 bytes)
- 7. Healey Info (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:59:06 EST
- In response to the question about getting good information about Healeys, we boast one of the most active lists on the autox system. It's not just for racers (frankly there aren't nearly as many folk
- /html/fot/2005-04/msg00010.html (6,597 bytes)
- 8. Racing TRs (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:54:01 EDT
- Perhaps one of you Triumphant historians can tell me: When did the first racing TR2 appear in competition? (anywhere but especially in North America, and in any type of organized competition)? Thanks
- /html/fot/2005-04/msg00249.html (6,558 bytes)
- 9. Auto Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:20:31 EDT
- Just one person's endorsement, but I have Hagerty on my three classic cars. I was told by their rep that if I were racing fewer than five or six weekends a year, I could just insure my race car using
- /html/fot/2005-04/msg00350.html (7,443 bytes)
- 10. Hotels for Monterey Historics (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:13:22 EST
- To save considerable amounts of money, look for a hotel in Marina (15 minutes to Laguna Seca, five minutes to Concorso Italiano and ten minutes from Monterey). Super 8 motel is a good bet, but there
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00113.html (6,953 bytes)
- 11. West Coast MG-TR Challenge (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:12:19 EST
- These days I'm on the other side of the grid, with my MGA, but I've been to the Portland event when it was just the ABFM and a nicer group of people in a nicer venue you couldn't hope to meet. And th
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00289.html (6,583 bytes)
- 12. tilton, or other jim-crack clutches (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:56:46 EST
- Can't speak for Triumphs, but after four years of fighting it (clutch slipping, engagement too quick for paddock and trailer loading, very thin clutch plate, linkage difficult to get positioned prope
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00360.html (7,636 bytes)
- 13. Compomotive Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:10:48 EST
- I've run on my MLs now for one full season -- seven weekends including the Wine Country, Historics, and CSRG Charity challenge spectator events. No apparent wear, finish looks great, they balanced ea
- /html/fot/2005-02/msg00064.html (6,928 bytes)
- 14. Re: fot-digest V1 #1321 (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:51:20 EST
- Also check out Race Track Videos (actually all on DVD, which can be played on many laptops right in the pits) done last year by Gary Kuntz glkuntz@aol.com. Very good, of Sears, laguna, Portland, RdAt
- /html/fot/2005-01/msg00270.html (6,905 bytes)
- 15. MiniLite-Style Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:07:25 EST
- Last year after getting blown off by the current importer of Panasports, I heard of Compomotive wheels manufactured in Britain. Bought a set of 15x5.5 inch wheels for my MGA, with which I've been VER
- /html/fot/2005-01/msg00337.html (7,186 bytes)
- 16. Re: fot-digest V1 #1244 (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:18:12 EDT
- car The bill has been signed into law, as was noted. If you want to look at the bill and the analyses that went with it, go to www.leginfo.ca.gov and ask for status of A.B. 2683. It is a little compl
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00111.html (9,615 bytes)
- 17. New California Smog regs on old cars (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:39:45 EDT
- operate on insurance Having followed this process of creeping controls for ten years now, I absolutely agree. My disappointment with this whole process is that the leaders of the club/insurance/indu
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00128.html (8,572 bytes)
- 18. Re: fot-digest V1 #1246 (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:24:47 EDT
- Actually, the way the bill is written, the rolling exemption is for "collector cars" which are defined in part as cars that are more than 35 years old. Which means that it will become relevant in 201
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00143.html (7,191 bytes)
- 19. Re: fot-digest V1 #1249 (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:54:28 EDT
- Among members of the Austin-Healey Concours Registry, the Derrington wood-rimmed steering wheels have been a topic of serious research and we've got a pretty good handle on them. Their origin is shro
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00164.html (8,614 bytes)
- 20. Re roll bars and cages (score: 1)
- Author: Editorgary@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:13:58 EDT
- Interesting contrast note on roll protection. When I designed the "cage" for my MGA (front hoop under scuttle, rear hoop over my head, diagonal brace and harness bar across rear hoop, braces from rea
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00332.html (7,087 bytes)
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