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<DIV>Bill Emory is smiling down on you Mike. For those of you who don’t know who
Bill Emory is / was; I’ll tell you a bit about him. He was a member of the Steel
Cities SCCA and raced a TR3 for more than 40 years mostly at Nelson Ledges in
Ohio but at other regional tracks as well. I first met Bill in 1969 while
crewing for a friend who raced a TR4. There were parts on his car from Donna Mae
Mimms pink TR3 which I believe Tim at Grassroots has as well as Bill’s TR3.
Somewhere there is an article about Bill in one of the Steel Cities newsletters
who at one point honored him for his racing legend. Maybe someone has a link to
that article. So Mike good for you to honor those who went before you, Bill was
one of many TR3 SCCA racers.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fot@autox.team.net>Mike
Jackson via Fot</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:12 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=fubog1@aol.com>fubog1</A> ; <A
title=fot@Autox.Team.Net>fot@Autox.Team.Net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded
tires???</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Yes,
it was me (English teacher wife says it should be Yes, it was I) with my vintage
TR3 in the SCCA race last weekend at Palm Beach International
Raceway. Here is a link to us on the grid for the race
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And yes, it was on Hoosier Vintage tires.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm a 31 year member of SCCA and I've held a National license for all those
years but had NEVER been in an actual classed race with any car meeting the
requirements of a class. I'd long held a desire to do so before I retired
from racing but I'm too cheap to rent a modern race car.</DIV>
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<DIV>It had been a while since I'd driven my beautiful and well prepared TR3
(thanks to Glen Efinger!) and reviewing the upcoming options to do so, most
interfered with family travel plans for the summer. So, since this event
was essentially in my back yard.....6 miles from my driveway.....it was the
perfect opportunity. For the previous month I sucked up to the Chief of
Tech and the Race Chairman to let the things that prevented my car from being
fully EP legal slide for this one time. That worked well and we slid thru
registration and tech with not a flinch.</DIV>
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<DIV>The next opportunity for it to go bad was on the grid. But, as you
can see in the pic, there I was next to a fully prepared Spitfire driven by my
friend and team mate Tim Slater. Then, I hold my breath for the first
couple of laps wondering if the stewards (SCCA has a ton of them at every event)
would have me black flagged. They did not.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here's the bottom line - there must be something to those
flares/slicks/fancy suspension/fancy brakes/after market transmissions and on
and on. Tim's yellow Spit quickly became a dot ahead of me in spite of my
lap times being in the range of what I can turn on this same track in a vintage
race. For a while I was able to hold off the VW that was running
last. But, even that didnt work for the entire 15 lap race and my 30+ year
friend and I eventually finished dead f&^ing last. Oh, well.</DIV>
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<DIV>But, I have now checked off one more item from the list of things I'd like
to achieve. </DIV>
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<DIV>Mike</DIV>
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@AUTOX.TEAM.NET>Subject: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I don't have any details, (I know nuthink!), but scuttlebutt
is that a certain Vintage driver (name withheld to avoid possible
embarrassment) showed up with a Vintage TR-3 racecar with Vintage treaded
tires on it, down at PBIR this past weekend... but... the problem was that it
was a SCCA SAARC Regional race, no Vintage class.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Not to be deterred by that minor detail, a couple pieces of
white paper and a home printer produced a very nice "EP"... and it was "off to
the races" for our intrepid Vintage race...<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT
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