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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Henry. Nice drive. Your car is really handling well (which is saying something for a TR-3). When I raced my TR-4A I had independent rear suspension, which I always felt gave me an advantage. I don't know how you do it with the solid axle.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Reminded me of watching Brian Fuerstenau in a TR-3 (#33) at Watkins Glen. Would have been the summer of 1964, maybe '65. He was in F Production while his teammate, Bob Tullius was in the #44 TR-4 in E Production. Eventually the TR-3 got moved to EP and the TR-4 to DP, until the TR-6 came along. When it couldn't keep up with the 240Z, they moved the TR-6 to DP and 2 years later the TR-4 to join the TR-3 in EP. The first 2 years the TR-6 was in DP, it won the national championship, first with Group44, then with Paul Newman.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sorry about the history lesson. Just reminiscing.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Jack<br></div><div><br></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> Mike Jackson via Fot <fot@autox.team.net></div><div><b>To:</b> yellow04 <yellow04@tr4racer.com>; "fot@autox.team.net" <fot@autox.team.net></div><div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 1:11:06 PM EST</div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fot] Ole' Blue at Summit Pt with Henry Frye</div><div><br></div>
<div><div dir="ltr">Great video Henry! And all wonderful races. We all live for weekends like that.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I was particularly entertained by watching the key fob on the glovebox key. You should label it in g's<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mike<br></div><div dir="ltr">-----Original Message-----<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: yellow04 via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Sent: Jan 19, 2021 12:02 PM<br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: <a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [Fot] Bill Dentinger<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Bill meant a lot of things to a lot of people. One thing for sure, if <br></div><div dir="ltr">>you had the pleasure to meet Bill, you certainly did not forget him. I <br></div><div dir="ltr">>have many fond memories, like sitting on the grid as some event in the <br></div><div dir="ltr">>broiling heat waiting our turn to take the track and hearing Bill, at <br></div><div dir="ltr">>the top of his lungs, singing some completely inappropriate song to no <br></div><div dir="ltr">>one in particular. Or at a huge SVRA event, hundred of drivers are <br></div><div dir="ltr">>intently listening to Jack Woehrle or Carl Jensen trying to get through <br></div><div dir="ltr">>a drivers meeting and Bill would just heckle the crap out of them. Not <br></div><div dir="ltr">>privately, mind you, but in a voice that everybody in the county would <br></div><div dir="ltr">>hear. And it was hysterical.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Bill was a racer at heart. The number of events that the Beady Eye <br></div><div dir="ltr">>Vintage Triumph Racing team ran annually was impressive. Remember Bill <br></div><div dir="ltr">>had Old Blue, Bob Wismer had the #4 blue TR4 (now campaigned by Paul <br></div><div dir="ltr">>Ricco), and between them they co-owned the Thunderbolt, an extremely <br></div><div dir="ltr">>limited production special from Tornado Cars, based on the TR3. They <br></div><div dir="ltr">>would trade off season to season driving the Thunderbolt and their <br></div><div dir="ltr">>respective TR. There was no expense spared on the preparation of either <br></div><div dir="ltr">>his or Bob's cars. Any discussion of the Beady Eye team is incomplete <br></div><div dir="ltr">>without mentioning Don Brick, the third member of the team. Don raced a <br></div><div dir="ltr">>white TR4 with red wire wheels, and might have been the speediest of the <br></div><div dir="ltr">>group, I believe the last year he ran was 2005.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Bill was quite proud of the fact that Old Blue, a 1956 TR3, was the most <br></div><div dir="ltr">>period correct vintage racer on track in the country. While I never <br></div><div dir="ltr">>researched it, nobody who heard the story doubted it. The amount of <br></div><div dir="ltr">>Triumph Competition Department equipment in the car was impressive. A <br></div><div dir="ltr">>race car since new, Bill was only the second racer to track the car.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>At some point over the course our friendship I must have mentioned to <br></div><div dir="ltr">>Bill how much I liked Old Blue, and would like to own the car when he is <br></div><div dir="ltr">>ready to hang up the helmet for the last time. (I am confident alcohol <br></div><div dir="ltr">>was involved in this conversation!) This turned into Bill selling the <br></div><div dir="ltr">>car to me back in 2014. My trip to Wisconsin to pick up the car and <br></div><div dir="ltr">>spares was both delightful and melancholy, you knew it was the end of an <br></div><div dir="ltr">>era. But Bill had high hopes I would keep the flame alive. My intent was <br></div><div dir="ltr">>to keep the car as period correct as possible, but make it safe and fun. <br></div><div dir="ltr">>I think I have struck a good compromise, some of those Competition <br></div><div dir="ltr">>Department goodies have made way for more suitable replacements, but for <br></div><div dir="ltr">>the most part the car remains remarkably period correct.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Every time I had a race weekend with the car I would email Bill and tell <br></div><div dir="ltr">>him how things went. We exchanged mail and it was obvious he was <br></div><div dir="ltr">>genuinely excited to see Old Blue still on track, doing better and <br></div><div dir="ltr">>better. It all came together at the Jefferson 500 at Summit Point in <br></div><div dir="ltr">>2019, it was one of those weekends we all dream of. Picture perfect <br></div><div dir="ltr">>weather, and you get grouped with a bunch of racers that are great <br></div><div dir="ltr">>competition and you are running with fast guys up front. Then the stars <br></div><div dir="ltr">>align and you take first in both feature races. I strung together some <br></div><div dir="ltr">>in-car footage from three sessions that weekend and sent it to Bill. He <br></div><div dir="ltr">>and his son Dick watched it on the "Big Screen", I got the impression he <br></div><div dir="ltr">>was as excited as I was!<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>In memory of Bill, I am sharing a view that he enjoyed for years, <br></div><div dir="ltr">>looking over the bonnet of Old Blue. You will be missed, my friend...<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCcXLlOR-k" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCcXLlOR-k</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Henry Frye<br></div><div dir="ltr">>_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><a href="http://www.fot-racing.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Archive: <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive </a><a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/grandwazoo@earthlink.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.fot-racing.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Archive: <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive </a><a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/fot</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/jwheeler1947@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/jwheeler1947@yahoo.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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