Speaking of old race cars, is anyone familiar with this one:
Raced in the Wichita Region in the 1980s...
Now it looks like this:
Racing with VSCCA in the northeast.
I?d love to find out more of its history. John Holsenback was the person who
raced it back then. That?s pretty much all I know. He passed away in 2007 and
apparently the car/spares were sold to the person in Oklahoma City, from whom I
obtained it in 2010.
See you all in Pittsburgh!
Rick McCurdy
Newburgh, NY
PS: SAVE it!
> On May 25, 2018, at 8:45 AM, fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>
> "Can this car be saved? Should it be saved? If you re-body some, or all of
> it, have you really saved it?"
>
> Answers-
> 1- Anything can be saved
> 2- YES!
> 3- That's the tough one to answer, with no original parts remaining, it would
> pretty much be a "recreation".
>
> Glen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Suddard via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> To: fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Fri, May 25, 2018 8:18 am
> Subject: [Fot] Group 44 car found
>
> And on another note, two more TR3s have just come into my life. Bill Emery
> has passed his late father?s two cars on to me, thinking I might be a good
> caretaker for them.
>
> After talking to Bill and Bob Tullius, and reading through his dad?s
> correspondence I am convinced one of the cars, (the very rough yellow one) is
> the Group 44 car that Bob Tullius built for Donna Mae Mims to race in the
> 1965. I have also found the original red paint and pink paint on the car.
>
> So this brings up some interesting ethical and technical conversations? (also
> lots to write about in Classic Motorsports). Can this car be saved? Should it
> be saved? If you re-body some, or all of it, have you really saved it? While
> I know, from correspondence that some of the Group 44 parts are on the red
> car, much of the Group 44 stuff is long gone.
>
> Tim Suddard
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