[Fot] 1955 TR3 ARRC contender

[dustin nicholson]

Anyone have Tim Suddard’s email?

Considering my car was an “also ran” in the championship race that his Group 44 GT6 won, I figure he might have info or photos from the race with my car in it… but trying to get his email off of the magazine website is harder than keeping a Porsche in your rearview mirror.

Thanks,
Dusty Nicholson




From: dustin nicholson
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:57 AM
To: dustin nicholson
Cc: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: 1955 TR3 ARRC contender

Thanks for all the responses. One of you knew Bill Boemler in the 80’s, The original racer, but didn’t know the car.

The question I’ve been asked most, what am I gonna do with it? I’m going racing! I’m going to preserve as much of the period look and set up as possible and run it in the historic group in CVAR in Texas and future FoT events. I’m not going to restore it, just freshen the mechanical and safety bits. I’m even going to keep the awful paint job that was literally put on with a brush. That’s character that you can’t re-create.

And my apologies, the FOT that helped me is Jim Dooley, sorry for getting your name wrong.

Dusty Nicholson 

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 9:01 PM, dustin nicholson <Nicholsondustin at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Amici,
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> Does anyone know this car? I bought it today in St. Louis and know a little bit of the history but I’m hoping someone on the list will remember it and can tell me more.
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> It was very competitive in SCCA Midwest in the 60s and early 70s. Ran in the American Road Race of Champions (Runoffs) in 1966 at Riverside and again in 1969 at Daytona. That was the last year it was held at Daytona before moving to Road Atlanta. The car DNF’d after 14 laps with the 7th fastest lap time. Pretty good for a 14-year-old car. The race and therefore championship was won in 16 laps by the ex-Tim Suddard Group 44 GT6.
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> Driver/builder/owner was Bill Boemler. No logbook remains. The only other race I know of was at Garnett in 1972, but obviously it raced a lot more than these three races that I know of. It’s believed to have stopped racing around that 1972 race and has practically not been touched since. It’s in rough shape but is a time capsule for how a car was prepped 50 years ago. The car had the nickname “The Flying Bedstead” due to its unique role bar.
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> Attached is a photo of it at Daytona in 1969 and a photo of it now.
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> Sidenote 1: The Vin number is the 15th TR3 and was likely made on the first day TR3’s went into production.
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> Sidenote 2: The seller had a Triumph buddy with him today to help unload my FP spitfire that was part of the deal, and load up the TR3. That buddy turned out to be FOT! Jeb from St. Louis with the beautiful white TR6 race car, thanks for your help today.
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> Dusty Nicholson 
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