<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">WPTA membership and others, I'm forwarding you an email from fellow racer Henry Frye regarding the passing of John Hasty, another fine TR vintage racer. Some of you folks may remember over the years watching John Hasty vintage racing his yellow TR3A up until last year. Personally, John gave me lots of tips and build guidance when I started out vintage racing in 2013 with my TR3B. He always had a fast car and could show it on the track. We had a couple fender benders and close calls but maintained a good friendship. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">yellow04 via Fot</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM<br>Subject: [Fot] Remembering John Hasty<br>To: FOT <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>><br></div><br><br>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>
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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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<a href="https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/33758028/john-henderson-hasty" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/33758028/john-henderson-hasty</a><br>
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Henry Frye<br>
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