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I saw one of the seven built (apparently not three) at the Sinsheim,
Germany transportation museum (someone else's photo here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/ow57nk7">http://tinyurl.com/ow57nk7</a>). It's pretty remarkable when you get
next to it and realize that those are 24" wheels, which are in scale
with the rest of the car.<br>
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Duncan<br>
(Texas)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/15 10:20 AM, Bill Dentinger via
Fot wrote:<br>
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border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;">I kind of
like the concept, they just stopped a little short. Picture
the same car with some box flairs covering the tires, some
panasports instead of those wheels on there currently, and
turbo 4 or 6 cylinder....... </blockquote>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica;
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica;
font-size: 10pt;">My instructor at the first Driver's School I
ever attended was a guy named Hal Ulrich. He was an ex-SCCA
National Champion, and in fact had to be one of the first
ever, because he raced in all of those early USA sports car
races through the streets of Elkhart Lake and Watkins Glen.
He was a hired hot shoe, who drove for 'gentleman' sports car
owners. He was a great guy, but I drove him crazy because I
couldn't double clutch during the sessions, and I was wearing
out the synchros. He and his brother Bill ran a 'speed shop'
that, back in the day, catered to Chicago's 'Gold Coast' (Lake
Forest, etc.) folks. His life time experiences were full of
exotic cars like Aston Martin, Bugatti, Excaliber, Ferrari,
etc., but he had a special place in his heart for Triumphs
(especially the TR2 and TR3). He told me that in the mid to
late 1950s they put tons of Chevy V8 engines in TR2s and
TR3s. He said they must have done forty or fifty of them.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica;
font-size: 10pt;">Hal is dead now, and I am not sure about
Bill. But these were two extremely interesting guys. When
they started telling tales, you would end up spell
bound. Bill's lifetime quest was the process of developing
his own 'Bugatti-like' engine. Not sure if it ever became a
physical reality, but I know there was a bunch of people
interested in it, and being involved financially. One
story Hal told me was about the time one of his customers
bought one of the three Bugatti Royales. Hal flew out to New
Jersey to pick it up, and then drove it back to Chicago. He
said mechanically it made the trip with no problem whatsoever,
except that it was the dead of winter, and the car had no
heater (at least no working heater). Those three Royales are
now, arguably, the most valuable collector cars in the world.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica;
font-size: 10pt;">I am rambling, but my point was that even
back in the late 1950s lots of people were modifying TR3s.
That's my point, my position is, "Shame on them!"</div>
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