Welcome Barry!
.....There's a very competitive p-1800 racing SCCA out here in S.F. region
..Bruce Ackerman..i'm not sure if he runs GT3 or EP
Racer Bud..Spitfire #21..sonoma, Ca.
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From: <munsonsb@telus.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>; <mark@bradakis.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Canadian Newbie - Introduction
> Hi All - My Name is Barry Munson and I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
> First I want to thank Joe Alexander for his introduction and my nomination
> to Fot. As a component of that nomination he asked that I prepare a short
> personal synopsis and I must admit that I have been enjoying the benefits
> of being on the Fot list without fulfilling that request. So here
> goes........
> I am a racer, a builder, a breaker, and a teacher. I am an aquatic
> toxicologist by training and I worked for the Canadian federal Environment
> department for 30+ yrs.and I don't have to worry about the work/play
> balance any more.
> My current summer race car is a 1970 Volvo P1800 which I built in 1978 and
> have been pounding it around race tracks in western Canada for every year
> since. I run the car 4 to 6 times a year in the national GT3 class which
> is highly competitive with very strong - and much younger - cars,
> primarily from Japan. We, the car and me, which I refer to the "centenary
> plus" team - the age of the car plus the age of the driver exceeds 100 -
> very seldom win any more but sure do have fun. I do, however, run it hard
> as I remain a racer at heart. The highlight this year was participating in
> the support race immediately prior to the Indy Car race here in Edmonton
> on a temporary airport track. Racing in front of 80,000 people is kind of
> cool - more on that in a later note.
> Summer racing up here starts in early June and is finished in early
> September. Which means that by December the go-fast bug starts to itch and
> to scratch it I have a 1975 Datsun 280Z which I race on the ice from Jan.
> to Mar. Fast fun car as it reaches in excess of 100mph on the front
> straights of the courses the we plow on a lake.
> I am a chief driving instructor and I organize and teach at about 10
> driving schools a year on a voluntary basis.
> Connection to Triumph - when I was in university and single I had a 1961
> powder blue TR3A. I had that car for 3 years, which also means 3 winters
> and up here it isn't the brightest move to have an English side-curtain
> car as your main means of transportation when its -20C outside. Man I
> loved that car, however sanity prevailed with marriage and I sold it. Fast
> forward 40 years to a 1980 Ford motorhome with an enclosed 40 ft. trailer
> behind humping north along the I-29 from Kansas City MO with a treasure
> inside. Upon arrival at the US-Canada border, the US customs officer got a
> chuckle out of what was in the trailer and the description on the transfer
> of title - "barn car" - a primrose yellow 1959 TR3A. So "Barnie" is home
> and the adventure begins.
> The first piece of advice that I got from Fot was to buy Kas's books which
> I did - man what a head start that has given me. As I move through
> Barnie's reincarnation to a fast road car that can hold its own on the
> track - remember once a racer always a racer - I hope that I will be able
> to contribute to this group as much as I am getting out of it.
> Thanks.
> Barry.
>
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