I spent today at the Armadillo Racing "boot camp", a racing seminar on
engine building, oils, etc. Pete Brock was the lunch speaker. What a guy.
I spent some time at lunch talking with him about the TR250K. It's owned
by the Hart family--they also own the Flying Shingle and a lot of other
cool stuff. It was restored by Tony Garmey and he races it quite a bit.
Two of the other Hart brothers vintage race very competitively. Great
guys. Bill races a Triumph Devin, Chuck drives a fast Lotus. Their Dad
Pat, who assembled the collection passed away a few years ago.
I've always been amazed at how fast and smooth that TR250K is. Tony says
it's a hell of a car. Of course Tony made Peyote look pretty smooth last
year when he drove it in a practice. I'm sure that if he had a few more
laps he'd be beating my best, and I've spent a lot of seat time in that
car.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mordy Dunst/Gasket Works USA, LLC
To: fot@autox.team.net
Sent: 2/8/2003 8:54 AM
Subject: 250k
Bill Watkins has run the car on occaision. He however is not the owner.
The owner likes the car driven hard and not to hold back was the
instructions that Bill got about two years ago at the vintage races in
Seattle/portland. Other than that I can offer no insight excep Bill is
on
the Vintage race list and can likely get more info from the owner.
Peter
Brock is also around doing photography work (his passion).
Bill is an engineer by profession who designed the Matterhorn and Space
mountain rides at disneyland. Am told that he also had the first rides
in
them...
Bill also came over to figure out some ground-saving unconventional
suspension for my shop's roof.. I traded him gaskets for enineering.
When
all was said and done the roof only dropped only about 1/16" of an inch
after taking out all the supports..
M. Dunst
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