<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thank you Ken for letting us know. I am saddened by his departure.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Bought thekit for the street car and the throw out bearing for the race car. While I never met hom in person, I had many long talks over the phone. Like with Ken, there was never a short conversation with Herman. And with both of them, there was more information to absorb from these conversation than I was capable of doing. They will both be sorely missed,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Chuck<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Kenneth Knight via Fot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_4969882421252324084WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">FOT Friends;<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is with profound sadness that I let the FOT community know that Herman Van Den Akker passed away last Friday. While not an FOT member Herman was the maker of the HVDA conversion kit that allowed for a Toyota 5 speed to be installed in street TR’s and he belonged to several Southern California TR Clubs.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Herman was my great and dear friend. A master machinist of over 60 years he and his wife Helen came here from Holland in the 1960’s. He worked as a machinist in the airline industry and had his own shop doing very high level machining for prototypes in Simi Valley until his retirement. Never one to sit still Herman developed the transmission kit that he sold for years and restored cars. The TR-3A he did for his daughter Heide and his TR-250 are some of the very best restorations in the country. As a friend Herman was generous with his time and anything that I know about machining was from Herman. Herman was a good friends with Ken Gilllanders, who we sadly lost this year, they worked together on many projects. Any of you who ever met Herman knew what a character he was.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Herman loved a good beer and his Scotch. So drink a cold one for this fine man. Sometime next Spring there will be a party in Woodley Park for Herman. I will keep you posted.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ken Knight<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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