[TR] Walter Conkite

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/18/2009 8:42:54 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mmarr at notwires.com writes: 
> This, of course, prompted a google search.  I couldn't find any reference 
> to 
> his racing a TR3, but I did discover that he raced a Volvo PV544, a Lotus 
> 11 
> and drove a Lancia Appia Zagato in the 12 hrs of Sebring in 1959.  The 
> only 
> TR3 reference I found was an occasion when a publicity photo was taken of 
> him in a TR3 receiving a ticket from a "bobby" (who was actually a Triumph 
> 
> executive in costume).  Apparently his wife asked him to find a more 
> family-oriented hobby, which caused him to take up sailing.  What an 
> accomplished guy!
> 

All this and he was a ham radio operator, too.  KB2GSD.

Dave
N0FEJ