<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Jack,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for that bit of firsthand history from someone who was there!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As a teenager in the 70s, my Dad would take me to Summit Point for the races and he would volunteer as a corner worker and signed me up to be a timer (stop watches in those days). My first official solo stint as a timer I was randomly assigned a Triumph (and some other car). I was stoked, since I was already a “Triumph guy”, even though I wasn’t driving yet. Anyway, I got still more excited when I found out Paul Newman was the driver (that’s why I can’t remember the other car). After the pace lap and green flag Newman was up front & I was Very focused on not screwed up! After the first lap I was disappointed when Newman came into the pits, everyone was wondering what went wrong with the car. His guys/friends came out and pulled the beer cooler out from the cockpit and he charged back onto the track. Seems they left the cooler in the car from happy hour the night before. Anyway, he did make up the time and I believe was in the top 5 or so cars by race end. That’s when I got the bug to race...it just took another 40+ years to get there!!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Terry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 19, 2021, at 15:10, Jack Wheeler via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4e3bfa2dyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
<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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