I the middle and late 1950's, Cal Sales and Nick Pastor (dealer) both put
together TR-3 engines that were over 2.5 without stroking. Paul Bernhardt
of Cal Sales did the machining and made his own bigger sleeves and bored the
block to suit. When I got there in 1958 the tooling and some of the broken
stuff was still around. The clubs got wise to them though, and they were
forced to run in the modified categories. These cars were fast and driven by
the likes of Phil Hill and Bob Drake. Days of yore.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <BillDentin@aol.com>; <kaskas@cox.net>; <grandwazoo@earthlink.net>;
<henry@henryfrye.com>
Cc: <cartravel@pobox.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: TR3 Frame (and other) work
>I know firsthand that you can make a TR3 extremely fast, in my case I
simply
> cheated like crazy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf
> Of BillDentin@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:02 AM
> To: kaskas@cox.net; grandwazoo@earthlink.net; henry@henryfrye.com
> Cc: cartravel@pobox.com; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: TR3 Frame (and other) work
>
> In a message dated 09/07/2004 10:41:29 AM Central Daylight Time,
> kaskas@cox.net writes:
>
>
>> Though I dearly loved my TR-3, saying that equally prepared & driven
>> cars, the TR-3 is faster, is a result of maybe eating funny mushrooms
or
>> simular enhancment product. The wider track alone will kill'ya.
>>
>
> Yeah....we're only talking about this because we have some very talented
TR3
>
> drivers, ala Jackson, Prentice, Snook, etc. (present company not
included,
> of
> course).
>
> Bill (Damdinger)
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