[Fot] Dick Stockton would like to join us!

[Kas Kastner]

Dick Stockton using a computer? Wow, that alone is worth the second or number
fifty for this great guy and racer and my old friend of 50 years.

Never be beaten by equipment
 > From: REK46 at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:23:01 -0400
> To: yellow04 at tr4racer.com; fot at autox.team.net
> CC: stocktontr4 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Dick Stockton would like to join us!
>
> I'll second it for sure...knew Dick from when I started racing a TR-250 in
> '68 , at Nelson Ledges.
>
>
> In a message dated 7/29/2011 8:09:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> yellow04 at tr4racer.com writes:
>
> Sorry  about the multiple postings, Mark's server wised up as to the true
> miscreant I am, and decided to reject my messages. Mark intervened, all is
> right with the world again...
>
> I talked to Dick Stockton yesterday,  he would like to get on the FOT list.
> May I get a second?
>
> For those  of you who don't know Dick, Bobby Adams sent me this bio.
> Starting racing  in 1959. SCCA National driver in the early 60s in an
> Austin
> Healey 3000,  Formula Jr., Ferrari 500 TRC, Lister-Jag, and Le-Mans Elva
> MKIV. Triumph  TR4 '64-'65. 1965 NE Div. 2nd place, ARRC Pole, 5th place
> finish after  overdrive failed while leading. Glen 500 class win co-driving
> with Bob  Tullius. '66-'68 owner/mechanic for Buzz Marcus's TR4 [ 66 NED
> Div
> 2nd  (Tullius 3rd), top 3 at the ARRC before mechanical failure (ahead of
> Group  44) / '67 2nd NE Div (Group 44 took first at the last National race
> of
> the  season), 2nd ARRC / ]. 1967 Leyland Motor Corporation trophy for the
> "Outstanding mechanical effort by a Triumph competitor at the 1967
> American
> Road Race of Champions". ['68 NE Div 1 (John Kelly Group 44 2nd)  , ARRC
> Pole
> 3rd place after spinning off track).] 1969-1970 BP 289 Cobra  (CSX2009) NE
> Div BP Champ, 2nd 1970 ARRC. 1970, F5000/FA in a Vulcan.  Front runner in
> IMSA RS/Baby Grand 1970s Datsun 510 and Toyota Celica. Mid  Ohio 6 Hour
> Class
> A winner, and in the same race Buzz Marcus won his class  in a Dick
> Stockton
> built Toyota Corolla scoring Toyota's first  professional victory in the
> North America. Sat out most of the 80s and all  of the 90s before buying
> back
> his old TR4 and started vintage racing in  2002. Ran a disco "blue and
> orange" paint scheme until he repainted the  car black in 2008.
>
> Has co-driven with: Bob Tullius, Ken Slage, Jerry  "Racer" Walsh, Jerry
> Truitt, and got John Morton to co-drive at Lime  Rock.
>
> Owned an all makes repair shop in Willow Grove, PA until he  retired in
> 1996.
> Had an engine dyno and did race car prep since the early  60s. Dick lent
> out
> his loft to a young Skip Barber who built his first car  there. Did tuning
> work for many club racers and names like Lou Gigliotti,  Ken Slagle, Al
> Holbert, Buzz Marcus. A few of his mechanics went on to  Penske racing
> where
> they had successful careers, and Jerry Truitt was also  a long time
> employee.
>
> ~~~
>
> While Dick is certainly no newcomer to  the racing scene, he it to the
> computer world. I am not sure he has found  the Reply button yet!
>
> Cheers
>
> Henry
> yellow04 at tr4racer.com
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