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I met John when he contacted me about my TR3A racer. I think it was
2008. He said he found it on something like the 10 screen during a
google search. He was already in his 70s. I wasn't sure he was a
real "Triumph guy" (after all he had owned a Porsche). As it turned
out, he was a very enthusiastic and durable Triumph racer, excellent
driver, and continued the transformation of that car.<br>
- Larry<br>
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<div>John was quite the steward of his cars. He bought his first
yellow TR3 from Larry Young. It was my first race car and I
had sold it in 2000 to another guy in our club. Larry bought
from him for the 2003 season and started improving it
immediately. Larry raced with us for around 5 years, long
enough to use his engineering background to become a camshaft
"master". After he couldn't race anymore he sold the car to
John in what might have been in 2008 or 2009. When I saw the
car again at the first Pitt Race K Cup I almost didn't
recognize it, it was so much better prepared. It later met its
end and I think John built another.</div>
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just found out that a couple months back we lost our resident
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octogenarian, John Hasty. Those of us who race the eastern
part of the <br>
States have probably met him at the track, piloting a yellow
TR3. John <br>
was always great fun to chat with, his extensive background in
<br>
motorcycle racing usually came up in some way or another.
After "aging <br>
out" on two wheels he decided it would be a better idea to
race on four <br>
wheels and was still on track with us last year at the age of
88 years <br>
young! At the spring race at VIR I see he was still right in
the mix, <br>
finishing 12th out of 29 runners in the Saturday race.<br>
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Trying to remember when John arrived in the scene, I searched
my <br>
archives. In 2011, Don Marshall nominated John and forwarded
this <br>
introduction to the FOT.<br>
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"I've been into racing most anything that has a motor and
wheels since <br>
the 40's when in high school building hot rods. Took off a few
years <br>
while in college, but beginning in 1959 bought my first sports
car, an <br>
Austin Healy 3000 w/o a jump seat, next a MGB, then a Porsche
912, then <br>
a Merc 280SL, now an Alfa Spider for the street and my TR3A
for the <br>
track. Crewed for a friend in the 60's with a bug-eye sprite
in SCCA <br>
events then got into motorcycles. I road motorcycle
road-racers for <br>
about 10 years and when I retired from riding, built and tuned
250cc GP <br>
road-racers with a rider on the AMA pro circuit for about 7
years. We <br>
did pretty well, never finished worse than 5th. in overall
standings and <br>
won the national<br>
championship in 1990. My good friend Ceasar Cone got me back
into sports <br>
car racing and when it came time to buy a car I decided that
if I was <br>
going vintage racing I wanted a truly vintage car and I think
the TR3A <br>
is a perfect truly vintage car."<br>
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Our kind of people, no doubt. You will be missed, my friend...<br>
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