[Fot] Nomination for FoT membership

Mon Sep 22 21:58:38 MDT 2008

Good to hear from you buddy. Sorry about your car, glad you're OK.  
That was a nasty one. Let me know if you need anything. I have a TR4  
frame up by my sport court, slowly turning back into iron ore. Yours  
if you want it.

On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:05 PM, quicktr4 wrote:

> I had a bad one last weekend including an ambulance ride to the  
> hospital to check me out. in alittle bit wet conditions my tr4  
> really stepped out on turn in to turn nine at seattle. very  
> uncharicteristic of my car. natural reaction is to catcth the slide.  
> when it did hook up it sent me strait into the wall at about 60 or  
> 70 mph it was a big hit. all the safety gear did its job and yes i  
> hade a hans on. after this our club is concidering making some  
> device manditory. i dont even have a stiff neck. I am now a strong  
> advicator. The car didnt fair so well both front frame rails bent  
> all the way into the oil pan. you can just imagine the rest.
> Jeff Quick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Babcock
> To: BillDentin at aol.com
> Cc: Friends of Triumph
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Nomination for FoT membership
>
> Sorry to hear about the fatality. We really are playing a rough game  
> here. We had two bad accidents at the SOVREN Fall Finale this  
> weekend. FOTer Jeff Quick hit the wall straight on in his TR4. They  
> took him off in the ambulance on a back board, but he's okay. The  
> car is completely flat across the nose and about a foot shorter.  
> Hard impact, straight in. Could have been a bad one, I'm glad he's  
> OK. I'm pretty sure Jeff wears a HANS device. Another driver pretty  
> much wrote off a very nice Alpha.
>
> We get away with a lot because of all the retrofitted safely  
> equipment, but I've met more than a few old time drivers who  
> expressed amazement that we don't have more fatalities. they  
> basically say "those cars were damned dangerous back when we built  
> them, what do you think has changed".
>
> What has changed is the safety gear, and I believe in keeping all of  
> mine as up to date as possible. Fresh belts before the expiration  
> date or when they show any damage or have been "exercised" as with a  
> Corvette shoving one self around a bit, Hans device. Good helmet.  
> great roll cage. Other than that, you pays your money and you takes  
> your chances.
>
> Pat's a great guy, it was a pleasure to meet him last year. Next  
> year is Peyote's fiftieth birthday. Big doings planned. T shirts,  
> peyote buttons, and a new motto: "Pissing off drivers with nicer  
> cars for fifty years"
>
> I agree, Diane has a fine rear end, in fact a stellar one. Peyote's,  
> however, is a tad lumpy.
>
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 11:32 AM, BillDentin at aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 09/22/2008 11:37:23 AM Central Daylight Time, Billb at bnj.com 
>>  writes:
>>
>>
>>> I thought Tony was already a member or I would have nominated him  
>>> long ago. Not only does he drive the wheels off the TR250K (and  
>>> anything else he sits in, except his truck which he drives like a  
>>> little old lady), but he also maintains it, and the Bill Hart  
>>> Devin, AND John James's TR4, and he brought Peyote back to life  
>>> this year, and will finish making it far too pretty over the  
>>> winter. Yes, he's going to replace the "Aluminum foil sack of  
>>> walnuts" rear end that I carefully fabricated on my $200 English  
>>> Wheel. Some people have no respect for amateur bodywork. Like  
>>> Diane for example, who is paying Tony to replace the rear end.
>>
>>
>> On the Peyote?  Diane's rear end is fine.
>>
>> I saw Pat Starr at ROAD AMERICA over the week end.  He borrowed a  
>> trailer and hauled his Morgan (same car he's raced since the 1960s)  
>> down to ELVF.  He is still a great driver (2:51.892), less than two  
>> seconds short of his best lap ever.  At the cocktail party Saturday  
>> night (Peter Egan spoke) Pat was talking about the Peyote and  
>> describing clear plastic spoilers they used to run on the car in  
>> the rear.  Interesting.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> PS...Sad to say...there was another fatality in the second Race  
>> Group 2 practice session on Friday.  Dr. Surjit Hermon lost control  
>> of his 1957 Eastgate (LOTUS XI continuation or replica) and hit a  
>> stationary Mini Cooper S parked off course near the apex to Turn  
>> 13.  High speed (80 mph +/-) impact (sideways).  Suspected broken  
>> neck.  I had raced with this guy many times.  He was competent,  
>> courteous, never aggressive.  He apparently lost control, tried to  
>> correct, and went sliding sidways into the Mini.  The VSCDA has  
>> been running vintage racing events for thirty years and never had a  
>> really serious accident, much less a fatality.  Now two in a month.
>>
>>
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