[Healeys] John Trifari

[Michael Oritt]

I did not have a chance to read my most recent HM as it came in when I was
out of town and I learned about John's death from a mutual friend.

I first met John at Conclave in Indianapolis (2000 or 2001?) and we stayed
in touch and hung out some at Open Roads in Lake Tahoe.  And as did Lin, I
also spent some time with John when he and Steve drove cross-country to
Conclave in NC plus, I think, at some Delegates meetings.

Sad, John was a good guy.  His death is a loss to our community.

Best--Michael Oritt





On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Linwood Rose <linwoodrose at mac.com> wrote:

> I don’t know how I missed it if it was mentioned here, but I read today in
> the latest Healey Marque about the passing of John Trifari. It saddened me.
> I didn’t know John well as we lived on different sides of the country, but
> when I was restoring my BT7 from 2002-2008 I often sought John’s advise and
> he was always ready to help. This email list is what made it all possible!
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> Ten years ago at the Winston-Salem Conclave I actually met John in person.
> He had just driven his 100 across country from California to attend
> Conclave. I was interested in using a throttle cable in my car rather than
> the Rube Goldberg mechanical linkage (sorry if I offend), and John had
> installed a cable in his 100. Actually,  I think David Nock installed it,
> didn’t you Dave? Anyway, John shared his thoughts about the modification
> and let me take some images of his car. Note the gauges that David Nock
> referred to in his eulogy to John found in the Marque.
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> John had also written an article in the January-February 2004 Healey
> Marque Magazine, or perhaps it was the Austin-Healey Magazine, about
> installing driving or fog lights in a Healey. I followed his instructions
> word-for-word in my installation.
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> I hate hearing about losing “Healey people,” especially the ones who so
> graciously assisted others - particularly the novices, like I was 10-12
> years ago.
> I think the best thing we can do to memorialize such people is to make the
> extra effort to help others even if it is the 20th time that you have been
> asked about how to take apart a trafficator or tune an SU.
>
> Thank you John :-)
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> Lin Rose
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> 1959 Bugeye AN5
> 1960 3000 MKI
> 1964 Jaguar MK2
> 1969 MB 280SL
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