[Fot] A Jim Ray TR6 story that showed up on a FB post from Gary Brizendine

[Bob Kramer]

Gary Brizendine
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Crew, 72 D Production.
The TR6.
Saturday afternoon, Regional Race, the LR cast aluminum lower trailing arm
of Jim Ray's TR6 broke. Uh, not something that was in the spare parts bin.
A fellow from Houston that had driven his street car, a TR6, had wandered
by several times Saturday morning. Right after the wrecker had deposited
the now lame race car by our bus, the fellow hustled up to see what was the
matter.....
I immediately asked him, where is your car?
His car? Yes, your car. He pointed toward the area outside of the Paddock.
He said way down there....
I said, let's go get your car. Hua? Yes, we need to go get your car and
bring it in the Paddock, right here.
Why?
Because I'm going to take the rear trailing arm off of your car and put it
on the crippled race car.
He was dumb-struck.
How can I get home if you disassemble my car?
I handed him the keys to Jim Ray's own 911S. You drive this car until the
Dealer in Houston reassembles and fully services your TR6....
I did the R&R on the racecar using the donor control arm. Compressed the
coil spring on the street car using about 25 worm-drive hose
clamps.....Nobody wanted to stand around to watch THAT!
Rebuild done before dark....
Jim won the National the next day....
The owner of the donor got his car put back and a bunch of little service
items done by the Dealer in Houston.
Don't you know getting out of the 911 an back into his TR6 was a let down!

When Gary saw me racing the TR6 I bought from Sam Halkias he encouraged me
to rebuild it as a Jim Ray replica. I can't bring myself to modify that car
but the Ray TR6 was an awesome looking car.
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Bob Kramer
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