[Fot] Old sports car footage

[EDWARD BARNARD]

Group: Isn't the collective knowledge of this group spectacular! An outsider
would surely think we all need to get a life :O)
-Ed-

--- On Sun, 1/8/12, Robert Kramer <rkramer3 at austin.rr.com> wrote:


From: Robert Kramer <rkramer3 at austin.rr.com>
Subject: RE: [Fot] Old sports car footage
To: "'Tom Householder'" <trhouse at columbus.rr.com>, "'EDWARD BARNARD'"
<edwardbarnard at prodigy.net>
Cc: "'FOT'" <fot at autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 6:23 PM


Jim McAndrew of Tyler TX has a TR3 that matches that description. I know it
was raced by those guys.

Bob Kramer
rkramer3 at austin.rr.com
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence.                 

Vince Lombardi


-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Tom Householder
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 5:43 PM
To: EDWARD BARNARD
Cc: FOT
Subject: Re: [Fot] Old sports car footage

Dana Keible and Ara Dube ran the 2000 Km Daytona Continental in 54 
finished 15th overall and first in GT II. Car was Prepared by Bill 
Conners of Daytona Beach ,  The fourteen car ahead of them were 7 
Ferarris 3 AC Cobras and 4 Porches . 8 laps behind was a  lotus 
Elite , followed by Aston Matin Sunbeam Alpine, Porsche C, Volvo 
1800s, and a bunch of Corvettes, a TR4 , an MG and a Sebring Sprite.   
See Feb. 64 TSOA Newsletter, Maybe  at Temple of Triumph site,   
Kastner was receiving  an Award in Dallas from the SCCA for Technical 
writing in the same Newsletter,

T


On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:46 PM, EDWARD BARNARD wrote:

> Group: Since we are on the subject of old photos, this video 
> surfaced on
> another list I am a member of. It is a tribute to Lloyd Ruby, the 
> greatest
> driver to never win Indy. Although there is a lot of Indy car 
> footage Ruby was
> also a very successful driver in sports cars and stock cars. At the 
> 4:10 point
> of the video is footage of Ruby driving a Cobra at the 1964 or 1965 
> 24 Hours
> of Daytona. It shows him passing a TR3. It would be very cool if 
> there was
> some way of identifying the car/driver of that car. Perhaps Kas 
> would know who
> it is.
> I had a chance to meet Ruby three years ago at a gathering we were 
> having in
> the area where I was showing my '39 Champ car. He was truly an 
> interesting
> guy; full of stories of the great days, but, being from Wichita 
> Falls, Texas
> you had to be patient as he spoke in a slow Texas drawl. Sadly, he 
> passed two
> years ago.
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qR62ONHLIw&feature=player_embedded
>
> -Ed-
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