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Re: Road America Indy carweekend report (little LBC content)

To: dterrick@pangea.ca, triumphs@autox.team.net, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Road America Indy carweekend report (little LBC content)
From: "" <greenman62@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:00:36 PDT
>From: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@pangea.ca>
>Reply-To: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@pangea.ca>
>To: "Triumph list" <triumphs@autox.team.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Road America Indy carweekend report (little LBC content)
>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:58:31 -0700
>
>Hi all,
>
>a very sunburnt and burned out Dave Terrick here reporting on the "guy's
>weekend" at the races:
>

>Now the LBC content:
>
>Most of the sports car marques had areas corraled for drivers of those cars
>ony.  Corvette Corral had nothing but vettes.  The 5-6-7 chev area had cars
>with paint worth more than an entire LBC.  Bimmer Bivouac had old bikes, 
>new
>bikes, old beemers, new beemers, slammed beemers, stock beemers.
>
>"Brit's Pits", the LBC corral, had about 4 cars.  Boo hiss.  Stuck in a
>corner, albiet a pretty one, next to the beemers and across from the 
>vettes,
>it was largely empty.  A couple MGB's, an 'A from Winnipeg, a Jag Mk vii (I
>think, real old, RHD, Rolls like) a GT6 with numbers (not mine) but no roll
>bar (hmmmm?).
>
>Guys in the TDC who are of the retired generation, tell stories of doing 
>the
>750 mile drive in 10 hours in TR3's with 3 people in them.  Where did that
>spirit go?  There were more LBC's around, but no camaraderie, it seemed.
>Sorry to bum you guys out but I thought there might be more from the
>Illinois region there.  Ted Schumacher had his stand out by turn 6 (he has
>waaaay more than just TR stuff, y'know) and remembered me.  Another 
>friendly
>face.  I wish I hadn't spent all my money on beer before I found him.
>
>Anybody out there want to rendezvous next year?  It's a great party

Yeah, Dave ya just picked the wrong weekend to go to Road America!.

You should plan to be there when they run the vintage races. You can make an 
absolute pest of your self in the paddock. ALL WEEKEND LONG... LOADS AND 
LOADS of LBCs, FICs, SGCs, BAI, FLFCs and other WOS. Try showing up at the 
Brian Redman International Challenge (formerly the Chicago Historic Races) 
3rd weekend in July or the VSCDA's Vintage Fall Festival (third weekend in 
September).

Oh yeah you'll see LBCs... and most likely me, and Irv Korey, the FOTs and 
the Chicago mob.

Greg
.
>
>Dave T
>back in the Great White North
>Winnipeg
>
>
>
>


Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)

That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...




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