[Fot] TR? Could hurt your eyes

[Bill Babcock]

Well that’s irritating. Try now. 
> On Mar 6, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Barr, Scott <sbarr at mccarty-law.com> wrote:
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> From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net>] On Behalf Of Bill Babcock via Fot
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 11:34 AM
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> Cc: fot at autox.team.net <mailto:fot at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fot] TR? Could hurt your eyes
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> I stuck a Toyota 2TG motor into my first TR3, which later became my total cheater TR3 with a more original drivetrain stuck back in. the Triyota was a pleasure to drive, and had the added advantage of always getting me back home, and never scattering bits of the gearbox everywhere. Five speed gearbox was pretty cool too, but former owners of “real” Triumph (none of whom had a Triumph anymore) would puke when I opened the hood. 
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> On Mar 6, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Bill Dentinger via Fot <fot at autox.team.net <mailto:fot at autox.team.net>> wrote:
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> I kind of like the concept, they just stopped a little short.  Picture the same car with some box flairs covering the tires, some panasports instead of those wheels on there currently, and turbo 4 or 6 cylinder....... 
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> Amici...
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> My instructor at the first Driver's School I ever attended was a guy named Hal Ulrich.  He was an ex-SCCA National Champion, and in fact had to be one of the first ever, because he raced in all of those early USA sports car races through the streets of Elkhart Lake and Watkins Glen.  He was a hired hot shoe, who drove for 'gentleman' sports car owners.  He was a great guy, but I drove him crazy because I couldn't double clutch during the sessions, and I was wearing out the synchros.  He and his brother Bill ran a 'speed shop' that, back in the day, catered to Chicago's 'Gold Coast' (Lake Forest, etc.) folks.  His life time experiences were full of exotic cars like Aston Martin, Bugatti, Excaliber, Ferrari, etc., but he had a special place in his heart for Triumphs (especially the TR2 and TR3).  He told me that in the mid to late 1950s they put tons of Chevy V8 engines in TR2s and TR3s.  He said they must have done forty or fifty of them.
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> Hal is dead now, and I am not sure about Bill.  But these were two extremely interesting guys.  When they started telling tales, you would end up spell bound.  Bill's lifetime quest was the process of developing his own 'Bugatti-like' engine.  Not sure if it ever became a physical reality, but I know there was a bunch of people interested in it, and being involved financially.  One story Hal told me was about the time one of his customers bought one of the three Bugatti Royales.  Hal flew out to New Jersey to pick it up, and then drove it back to Chicago.  He said mechanically it made the trip with no problem whatsoever, except that it was the dead of winter, and the car had no heater (at least no working heater).  Those three Royales  are now, arguably, the most valuable collector cars in the world.
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> I am rambling, but my point was that even back in the late 1950s lots of people were modifying TR3s.  That's my point, my position is, "Shame on them!"
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> Bill Dentinger
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