[Fot] Remembering John Hasty

[Larry Young]

I met John when he contacted me about my TR3A racer. I think it was 
2008. He said he found it on something like the 10 screen during a 
google search. He was already in his 70s. I wasn't sure he was a real 
"Triumph guy" (after all he had owned a Porsche). As it turned out, he 
was a very enthusiastic and durable Triumph racer, excellent driver, and 
continued the transformation of that car.
  - Larry


On 1/23/2025 9:41 AM, Bob Kramer via Fot wrote:
> 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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