Amici,
I'd like to nominate Aaron Johnson to our ranks. Below is a short Bio
Aaron wrote.
Do I have a second?!
Brad
(1957 TR3 Road Racer)
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From: "Aaron Johnson" <fpspitfire37@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:52:37 -0700
Short Bio:
27 Years Old. Married, 10 month old son. Project Engineer at a
titanium investment casting foundry. Auto-crossed a Tr6 for a couple
years and thought about going vintage racing with it and decided that
may not be for me. As I was debating back and forth between making
the TR6 a dedicated race car, I came upon a Spitfire MkIV that was an
SCCA F-Production car built in 1982 by Robin Burke of Ft. Collins, CO.
Robin had moved to France and was paying a good sum to store the car
until he returned (which may be never). So I worked a deal with him
and bought the car and trailer for a meager sum in August of 1999.
After getting the car we completely disassembled it and basically
started from scratch. It was really just a tub with some good parts.
I finally finished the car in august of 2002 and entered a hill climb
event to shake the car down and look for the really big bugs. The
hill climb was OK...but I knew what I wanted to do and that was Road Race.
I entered my first drivers school in March of 2003 (2 years after the
original planned date). I finished my second drivers school in April
2003 and had my First DNF in a race that weekend.
I bypassed the May event in Oregon to re-wire the car and this paid
off. I entered the Portland Rose Cup Races in June and scored my
first F-Production Class win when my competition dropped out with a
broken coil wire of all things.
I'm definitely learning a lot about spitfires. I could tell you how
to make a TR6 handle in my sleep, but this is a new animal and I'm
loving every minute of it
Aaron Johnson
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