[Fot] Nomination and brief race report

[Jerry Van Vlack]

I'll second that for certain.
Mark is a son-in law of a friend here in Hudson, OH. That car has some 
significant provenance having been raced almost all of it's life. 
Significant Mid-West / Chicago history. It was restored at one time by Bill 
Lynn of VTR fame and another Chicago man but I don't remember his name. I 
had a history of the car at one time and lost it in a hard disc crash. I may 
still have it on another computer. If not Mike may have it or I can get it 
from his father-in-law. The father-in-law has 1 of 2 TR2's that I'm aware of 
painted in the original Geranium (pink) color. Nice car too.
His father, Leo Mehl was Goodyear's Racing Tire Director for many years and 
I believe he was also involved in IRL stuff for awhile. So the car as well 
as the owners have a rich racing history.
It will make a nice race car.
I need to find that history too. May have some surprise in there.

JVV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norlin Engineering" <norlinengineering at comcast.net>
To: <fot at autox.team.net>
Cc: <mike.mehl at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:43 PM
Subject: [Fot] Nomination and brief race report


> Amici,
>
> I'd like to nominate Mike Mehl to join our Triumph racing group.  Mike
> introduced himself to me at this past weekend's Rose Cup races here in
> Portland.  He is a local that is currently preparing a TR4 with the intent
> of having it finished in time for the Columbia River Classic on Labor Day
> weekend.  From the photos he sent me, it sure looks possible, but I bet he
> can use our help with some of the details.  Do I hear a second?
>
> As for the Rose Cups, besides myself, Babcock and Pendergrass held up the
> Triumph honor.  This was an SCCA double regional with the normal for 
> Oregon
> Region Vintage race group.  There were nearly 50 vintage cars entered with
> 38 taking the green flag on Sunday.  The Triumph's all finished!
>
> We all had a pretty darn good weekend it seemed!
>
> Jim Norlin
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