[TR] Met some of our folks at VTR

[Philip Ethier]

Wow.  Sorry I can't be there.  Hope 2015 is in a good place and time for me!

On your way home, look for the Lotus cars coming in for the LOG in
Asheville.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Chris Simo <ccsimonsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was really nice to put some names with faces this week @ VTR in NC.  So
> glad to see such a nice turnout for the event my club is hosting.
>
> After some  unexpected delays, the hill climb went off with Marty Sukey's
> Spitfire leading the test runs up the course.
>
> We had 3 glorious ladies from Texas take to the hill climb and it was so
> much fun seeing these triumphs from the 1930's take to the course.  I even
> got to tech one -  a 1936 Gloria Southern Cross - wow!
>
> Lots of beautiful cars here and though I've been working super long days,
>  it's been a pleasure to tech  cars and get a chance to talk to their
> owners and poke around their beautiful cars. We even got a chance to do a
> few repairs we found during tech.   Loose steering column due to worn grub
> screw, overheating from too lean mixture, one TR6 was running on the rear
> carb only, leaky intake, and a few more.   I left greasy and tired, but
> that's all in a days work.
>
> Never seen so many TR8's in one place!!
>
> Chris
>
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