[Fot] Fwd: [Mgs] Sad news

[Mark Bradakis]

This is sad news.  I met him on one of my trips to the Bay Area.  Had 
dinner with him and several other list members at the time, early, mid 
90s, I would guess.  Dick's grandfather, I think Harry or Herbert was 
his name, came up with a theory about sampling frequency.  Some 
equations that basically explained why vehicle wheels often look like 
they are going backwards while the car was moving forward on TV and movies.

Yes, he was a Triumph guy, had a fast GT6 racer.  My condolences to the 
family.

mjb.


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Subject: [Mgs] Sad news
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:09:58 -0700
From: Larry Colen <LRC at red4est.com>
Reply-To: LRC at red4est.com
To: Mgs at autox.team.net

I found out today that Dick Nyquist has passed away.  I'm not sure that 
he ever owned an MG, but he dated back to the time when there was just 
one britcars mailing list, before it got so large that it was split into 
more topical ones.

I think that I had met him in passing at a couple of local gatherings in 
the Bay Area, but really became friends when I was his wife Rochelle's 
first track instructor sometime around 1990. At the time they had a GT6 
that made crazy amounts of horsepower. He was also active in the Irish 
music community in the Bay Area and we had many friends in common 
through there as well. I could go on for pages about him, but if you 
knew him you already know.


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Larry Colen  LRC at red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc