That's got to be Larry & Tom Young's car. Second. And welcome John.
Greg "Lunker" Hilyer
TR4 #314
Albuquerque NM
On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Don Marshall wrote:
> I'd like to nominate John Hasty for membership in our esteemed
> group. He
> has recently started racing a well prepared TR3 here in the
> southeast and
> will be joining us in the Triumph Ghetto at VIR next month. Mark, his
> email address is jhhasty@gdhs.com.
>
> The following excerpt is from an email he sent me. I'm sure he'll
> be a
> good addition to our group. Can I get a second? Don
>
> "I've been into racing most anything that has a motor and wheels
> since the 40's when in high school building hot rods. Took off a
> few years
> while in college, but beginning in 1959 bought my first sports car, an
> Austin Healy 3000 w/o a jump seat, next a MGB, then a Porsche 912,
> then a
> Merc 280SL, now an Alfa Spider for the street and my TR3A for the
> track.
> Crewed for a friend in the 60's with a bug-eye sprite in SCCA
> events then
> got into motorcycles. I road motorcycle road-racers for about 10
> years and
> when I retired from riding, built and tuned 250cc GP road-racers
> with a
> rider on the AMA pro circuit for about 7 years. We did pretty well,
> never
> finished worse than 5th. in overall standings and won the national
> championship in 1990. My good friend Ceasar Cone got me back into
> sports
> car racing and when it came time to buy a car I decided that if I
> was going
> vintage racing I wanted a truly vintage car and I think the TR3A is a
> perfect truly vintage car.
> A little history on the TR3A. I have been able to trace its history
> back to 1988 when it was found in a hanger already prepared as a
> race car
> by
> a young man in Denver CO. It then went to the Dallas TX area, back to
> Denver
> and then to Tulsa OK where I got the car. I am now the 6th. Owner
> since
> 1988. I have documented over 75 races the car has been in mostly in
> the
> Midwest with CVRA, VSCDA, RMVA, at tracks such as Texas World, Hallet,
> Second Creek, Casper, Stapleton, Steam Boat Springs, Copper Mountain,
> Eagles
> Canyon, Blackhawk Farms. It ventured east a few times to Road
> America and
> with SVRA at Mid Ohio and Watkins Glen."
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