[Fot] 1955 TR3 ARRC contender

[dustin nicholson]

Bill, the photos didn’t come though to me, can you send them again?  Maybe directly to me instead of through FoT will work better?

Dave, thanks for the racingsportscars.com link, it lists a handful of races for my car including a class win at the 1970 SCCA Regional at Mid-America.

Kas remembers the car/driver from Riverside ARRC in either 1966 or 1968.

Thanks,
Dusty

From: BILL
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:39 AM
To: dustin nicholson; fot at autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Fot] 1955 TR3 ARRC contender

Dusty,
Here are some photos I took of your TR3 #72 Racer from a 1968 SCCA Nationals either at Lake Garnett or Lake Afton KS. Noting we showed up put out some hay bails and went racing and then drove or TR home Sunday night so we could be at work Monday morning, never thinking that an accident or mechanical failure could occur. They did, but we were enterprising enough to always make it to work on time. Very few cars came on trailers, back then!
Best,
Bill Redinger

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From: dustin nicholson <nicholsondustin at yahoo.com> 
Date: 6/24/20 2:32 AM (GMT-06:00) 
To: fot at autox.team.net 
Subject: [Fot] 1955 TR3 ARRC contender 

Amici,

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.

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.

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.

Attached is a photo of it at Daytona in 1969 and a photo of it now.

Sidenote 1: The Vin number is the 15th TR3 and was likely made on the first day TR3’s went into production.

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.

Dusty Nicholson 

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