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<div>Good Luck on our Quest, Jason. I'll be cheering if you win.</div>
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<div>But make a note...you must finish in order to win.</div>
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From: Jason Ostrowski <jason@multivintage.com><br>
To: Bill Dentinger <BillDentin@aol.com><br>
Cc: Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com>; FOT List <fot@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 9:25 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Race Car Brake Calipers<br>
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<div>Self serving indeed!</div>
<div>The GT6 (in TR comparison) is a lone misunderstood black sheep at car shows and at the track to be certain.</div>
<div>I have always been perhaps the greatest fan of the GT6.</div>
<div>After all, someone has to support the brand that seems (for some reason) to always fall below the level of love of all the other Triumphs.</div>
<div>As a life long lover of the marque;</div>
<div>I have never understood why I am in such a minority.</div>
<div>It's cute (dare I say sexy?) (my race cars are boys so I won't) (not that there is anything wrong with that).</div>
<div>Anyway, cute, fast, and at the top of it's class by most comparisons.</div>
<div>Yet, it has a small following, low demand, and less monetary value when compared to other Triumphs.</div>
<div>The brakes are hard to beat!</div>
<div>It's suspension (front and rear) was copied by the best small formula cars for over a decade of US and European competition.</div>
<div>It's motor produces sound and power that is unmatched in the under 2 liter category.</div>
<div>Handling is divine.</div>
<div>Now, Granted; with some parts designed for the Harold still part of the package throughout it's entire production life... it had several weak points.</div>
<div>But all these problems; (after 40 years of racing development). </div>
<div>We, With The GT6's at top of the marque have finally engineered away the small defeats.</div>
<div>So yes, I serve it and it serves me.</div>
<div>And I've got no inflated ego or undue cockiness in regards to my whole program of doing what I do with these pretty special little poor man's beasts.</div>
<div>That's why...</div>
<div>when my day comes; to drink from that awesome (Kastner) Cup...</div>
<div>Oh what a sweet, sweet! drink it will be!!!!</div>
<div>Sonoma Bound,</div>
<div>Jason Ostrowski</div>
<div>Friendly Ghost Racing</div>
<div>1969 Triumph GT6+ Race Cars</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Bill Dentinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BillDentin@aol.com" target="_blank">BillDentin@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">TSK, Tsk, tsk. A somewhat self-serving position, Jason, and no surprise to me when you say it. But then there's much to like about the poor man's XKE.<br>
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The TR8 was well received when released.<br>
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If I must choose but one, I guess I'll choose the 1934 Triumph Dolomite. They produced only two, and one of those quickly got trashed in an argument with a choo-choo train. But there's still one out there somewhere, and were I to win the Power Ball Lottery, I might go looking for it.<br>
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Bill Dentinger<br>
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PS Actually the 1934 Dolomite is a near 'badge change' to a very similar ALFA, but perhaps TRIUMPH meant their's to be it a compliment to ALFA.<br>
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<div class="h5">> On Dec 6, 2015, at 10:47 PM, Jason Ostrowski <<a href="mailto:jason@multivintage.com" target="_blank">jason@multivintage.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> That doesn't surprise me! It is a rarely admitted; yet common knowledge among the Triumph elite...that the GT6 is the best car that Triumph ever made.<br>
> Jason Ostrowski<br>
> Friendly Ghost Racing<br>
> 1969 Triumph GT6+ Race cars.<br>
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>> On Dec 6, 2015, at 9:02 PM, Mark J Bradakis <<a href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com" target="_blank">mark@bradakis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Scott Janzen wrote:<br>
>>> Brakes are definitely a limiting factor in many vintage cars. One of the things that keep them vintage.<br>
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>> When I started running Killer, a specifically autocross tuned car out at our IVR events in Wendover the brakes worked just fine on the road course. For 17 of the 20 minutes our race sessions lasted. I swapped in some GT6 brakes and things were just fine after that, except for the electric discharge machining incident.<br>
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