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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had a bad one last weekend including an ambulance
ride to the hospital to check me out. in alittle bit wet conditions my tr4
really stepped out on turn in to turn nine at seattle. very uncharicteristic of
my car. natural reaction is to catcth the slide. when it did hook up it sent me
strait into the wall at about 60 or 70 mph it was a big hit. all the safety gear
did its job and yes i hade a hans on. after this our club is concidering making
some device manditory. i dont even have a stiff neck. I am now a strong
advicator. The car didnt fair so well both front frame rails bent all the way
into the oil pan. you can just imagine the rest.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff Quick </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Billb@bnj.com href="mailto:Billb@bnj.com">Bill Babcock</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=BillDentin@aol.com
href="mailto:BillDentin@aol.com">BillDentin@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=fot@autox.team.net
href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">Friends of Triumph</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 22, 2008 6:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Nomination for FoT
membership</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Sorry to hear about the fatality. We really are playing a rough
game here. We had two bad accidents at the SOVREN Fall Finale
this weekend. FOTer Jeff Quick hit the wall straight on in his TR4. They
took him off in the ambulance on a back board, but he's okay. The car is
completely flat across the nose and about a foot shorter. Hard
impact, straight in. Could have been a bad one, I'm glad he's OK.
I'm pretty sure Jeff wears a HANS device. Another driver pretty much wrote off
a very nice Alpha.
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<DIV>We get away with a lot because of all the retrofitted safely
equipment, but I've met more than a few old time drivers who expressed
amazement that we don't have more fatalities. they basically say "those cars
were damned dangerous back when we built them, what do you think has changed".
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<DIV>What has changed is the safety gear, and I believe in keeping all of mine
as up to date as possible. Fresh belts before the expiration date or when they
show any damage or have been "exercised" as with a Corvette shoving one self
around a bit, Hans device. Good helmet. great roll cage. Other than that, you
pays your money and you takes your chances. </DIV>
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<DIV>Pat's a great guy, it was a pleasure to meet him last year. Next year is
Peyote's fiftieth birthday. Big doings planned. T shirts, peyote buttons, and
a new motto: "Pissing off drivers with nicer cars for fifty years"</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree, Diane has a fine rear end, in fact a stellar one.
Peyote's, however, is a tad lumpy. </DIV>
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<DIV>On Sep 22, 2008, at 11:32 AM, <A
href="mailto:BillDentin@aol.com">BillDentin@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR
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ptsize="12">In a message dated 09/22/2008 11:37:23 AM Central Daylight Time,
<A href="mailto:Billb@bnj.com">Billb@bnj.com</A> writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
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type="CITE">I thought Tony was already a member or I would have nominated
him long ago. Not only does he drive the wheels off the TR250K (and
anything else he sits in, except his truck which he drives like a little
old lady), but he also maintains it, and the Bill Hart Devin, AND John
James's TR4, and he brought Peyote back to life this year, and will finish
making it far too pretty over the winter. Yes, he's going to replace the
"Aluminum foil sack of walnuts" rear end that I carefully fabricated on my
$200 English Wheel. Some people have no respect for amateur bodywork. Like
Diane for example, who is paying Tony to replace the rear end.
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back="#ffffff"><BR>On the Peyote? Diane's rear end is fine.<BR><BR>I
saw Pat Starr at ROAD AMERICA over the week end. He borrowed a trailer
and hauled his Morgan (same car he's raced since the 1960s) down to
ELVF. He is still a great driver (2:51.892), less than two seconds
short of his best lap ever. At the cocktail party Saturday night
(Peter Egan spoke) Pat was talking about the Peyote and describing clear
plastic spoilers they used to run on the car in the rear.
Interesting.<BR><BR>Bill<BR><BR>PS...Sad to say...there was another fatality
in the second Race Group 2 practice session on Friday. Dr. Surjit
Hermon lost control of his 1957 Eastgate (LOTUS XI continuation or replica)
and hit a stationary Mini Cooper S parked off course near the apex to Turn
13. High speed (80 mph +/-) impact (sideways). Suspected broken
neck. I had raced with this guy many times. He was competent,
courteous, never aggressive. He apparently lost control, tried to
correct, and went sliding sidways into the Mini. The VSCDA has been
running vintage racing events for thirty years and never had a really
serious accident, much less a fatality. Now two in a
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