[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

[Bob Kramer]

Henry

John was quite the steward of his cars. He bought his first yellow TR3 from
Larry Young. It was my first race car and I had sold it in 2000 to another
guy in our club. Larry bought from him for the 2003 season and started
improving it immediately. Larry raced with us for around 5 years, long
enough to use his engineering background to become a camshaft "master".
After he couldn't race anymore he sold the car to John in what might have
been in 2008 or 2009. When I saw the car again at the first Pitt Race K Cup
I almost didn't recognize it, it was so much better prepared. It later met
its end and I think John built another.

Bob Kramer


On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

> I just found out that a couple months back we lost our resident
> octogenarian, John Hasty. Those of us who race the eastern part of the
> States have probably met him at the track, piloting a yellow TR3. John
> was always great fun to chat with, his extensive background in
> motorcycle racing usually came up in some way or another. After "aging
> out" on two wheels he decided it would be a better idea to race on four
> wheels and was still on track with us last year at the age of 88 years
> young! At the spring race at VIR I see he was still right in the mix,
> finishing 12th out of 29 runners in the Saturday race.
>
> Trying to remember when John arrived in the scene, I searched my
> archives. In 2011, Don Marshall nominated John and forwarded this
> introduction to the FOT.
>
> "I've been into racing most anything that has a motor and wheels since
> the 40's when in high school building hot rods. Took off a few years
> while in college, but beginning in 1959 bought my first sports car, an
> Austin Healy 3000 w/o a jump seat, next a MGB, then a Porsche 912, then
> a Merc 280SL, now an Alfa Spider for the street and my TR3A for the
> track. Crewed for a friend in the 60's with a bug-eye sprite in SCCA
> events then got into motorcycles. I road motorcycle road-racers for
> about 10 years and when I retired from riding, built and tuned 250cc GP
> road-racers with a rider on the AMA pro circuit for about 7 years. We
> did pretty well, never finished worse than 5th. in overall standings and
> won the national
> championship in 1990. My good friend Ceasar Cone got me back into sports
> car racing and when it came time to buy a car I decided that if I was
> going vintage racing I wanted a truly vintage car and I think the TR3A
> is a perfect truly vintage car."
>
> Our kind of people, no doubt. You will be missed, my friend...
>
> https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/33758028/john-henderson-hasty
>
> Henry Frye
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