[Fot] "Tractoring"?

[Bill Babcock]

The simplest thing would have been to ask him, but generally  
tractoring means you have too little camber.
On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:04 PM, Steven Preiss wrote:

> Could have meant running on, as in after the ignition is shut off,  
> due to
> fuel being vaporized by excessive heat in the engine compartment.
> Steve P.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr at McCarty-Law.com>
> To: <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:27 AM
> Subject: [Fot] "Tractoring"?
>
>
>> Some of you may know MGB driver Rich Larsen and his traveling  
>> mechanic /
> pal Andy.  Andy is the one with the white crewcut, Butch Bohunk  
> vocabulary
> and about 1,000 years of experience with making automobiles go.  You  
> just
> naturally tend to listen to Andy when he offers an opinion about  
> what you
> car is doing.
>>
>> Well, this last race weekend at Blackhawk, Andy wandered over and  
>> stuck
> his head under my hood and offered the opinion that my car was  
> "tractoring".
> At first, I thought it was just a variation on the usual
> Triumph-motor-as-agricultural-implement joke.  But he said something  
> about
> it again as we were cleaning up for the day, and I've been thinking  
> about it
> since.
>>
>> I've never heard the word "tractoring" used in this way before.   
>> Anybody
> have any idea what it means in this context?
>>
>> Scott
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Bill Babcock
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