[Fot] Racing a Triumph TRANSMISSIONS

[BillDentin at aol.com]

Mike...

WOW!  Interesting dossier on David Hobbs' Dad.  

Incidentally, David Hobbs now owns a Honda dealership in Glendale, 
Wisconsin (Milwaukee suburb), and at a cocktail party there one time the VSCDA 
brought a bunch of vintage sports cars to be on display in the shop (which 
actually got scrubbed clean for the event).  Anyway I brought our Tornado Thunder 
Bolt and David Hobbs got all excited.  He brought a picture down from his 
office of that Lotus referred to in the article and the Thunder Bolt racing 
over in England.  I asked him if the Thunder Bolt was getting ready to lap him 
in the picture.  He did not think that was very funny and promised to tell 
me some time just how ill-mannered the Thunder Bolt was when it was first 
built.  I see David at Road America from time to time, but still have not 
heard the rest of the story.  I hope to someday because David Hobbs is a Hell of 
a story teller.  When he and Brian Redman get together you are guaranteed 
to split a gut laughing.

Bill Dentinger