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Re: But IS it a Vintage Racer? (was Eastlake)

To: Tombread@aol.com, brian@uunet.ca, wsthompson@thicko.com,
Subject: Re: But IS it a Vintage Racer? (was Eastlake)
From: "Hugh Barber"<trnut@cwnet.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:40:52 PDT
Not to split hairs, but that hypothetical 289 TR6 could have run in A Sports
Racing in the early 70's.......

>In a message dated 11/7/00 10:42:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, brian@uunet.ca

>writes:
>
><< don't 
> mean these road warriors can't come out and play in their declining years
 : 
>>>
>But if you aren't playing by the same rules, it isn't racing.  Running a TR6

>with a smallblock Ford may have been street fun, but it wasn't sanctioned by

>any racing group except maybe the NHRA.  If the car doesn't meet 
>contemporaneous specs, it is a hot rod, not a race car.
>
>Tom Butters
>The Greens Fork Group
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