<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That’s sad news. John went out of his way to make me feel welcome when I moved to SC. I really appreciated that and will miss him.<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Chuck</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 23, 2025, at 10:56 AM, Bob Kramer via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Henry</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bob Kramer</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM yellow04 via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I just found out that a couple months back we lost our resident <br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
"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>
<br>
Our kind of people, no doubt. You will be missed, my friend...<br>
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Henry Frye<br>
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