- 1. Signing off for a while (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:43:57 -0000
- Hi Foters We'll it's time to sign off the list for a few months as from now on we'll be busy packing the motorhome for our trip to Europe on Saturday. Many thanks for all the good wishes we've receiv
- /html/fot/2001-12/msg00090.html (6,785 bytes)
- 2. non tech (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:32:13 -0000
- Hi FOters I have about 23 full sets of Triumph Over Triumph magazine left (12 mags in perfect condition). Should any new members on the list require a set before I let them go this side of the pond I
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00064.html (6,450 bytes)
- 3. Parcels and letters (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:47:18 -0000
- Hi Gang Knowing of the nervousness we all have at opening parcels etc these days, ordered sets of TOT magazines will be posted in two separate buff coloured envelopes with brown reinforcing tape alon
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00079.html (6,664 bytes)
- 4. Trip to Europe (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 07:04:08 -0000
- Hi Knights of the noble order of the FOT As from the 1st December I will be going 'off list' pending a five month trip round Europe, but I will still be in contact via normal e-mail and doubtless unc
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00114.html (7,254 bytes)
- 5. Pickpockets (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:02:31 -0000
- Hi Gang I think the secret is not to look too much like a tourist ie go round carrying your wallet in a sack on your back with a Rottweiler in it. The late Mike Rothschild was once collecting some fr
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00127.html (6,634 bytes)
- 6. TOT magazines (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:54:37 -0000
- Hi Gang Just a polite note to those who ordered sets of TOT mags. All the mags have been posted out (most over a week ago). Please make sure that payment ($38 per set) is sent before the end of this
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00147.html (6,431 bytes)
- 7. Sir John Black (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:22:16 -0000
- Hi Gang Just a line to put a point of history right. It has often been reported that bad blood developed between Sir John Black and the Morgan family after Henry Morgan refused to sell his company to
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00196.html (7,348 bytes)
- 8. Virus (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:02:20 -0000
- Hi FOTers What a bloody nightmare this virus caused. It bypassed my Norton 2001 protection and started buggering about in my e-mail addressbook. I downloaded two days ago and then all types of bugger
- /html/fot/2001-11/msg00246.html (7,747 bytes)
- 9. Don Garlits (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 05:58:11 +0100
- Re Dave's e-mail concerning Don Garlits loosing a foot due to an exploding I remember seeing Don Garlits at a drag strip called Wood Vale near Southport circa 1962 (I was working at TVR the time). Th
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00187.html (7,087 bytes)
- 10. Drag racing (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:58:35 +0100
- Reading that note about Don Garlits reminded me of the time a guy offered me a go in one of those sling shot dragsters. I told him there was more chance of Lord Nelson getting his eye back than me ev
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00190.html (6,724 bytes)
- 11. pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:29:13 +0100
- Hi gang Just a general enquiry among those of you who race with domed pistons (not a favoured piece of engineering in my book, but I realise that this is the only way to achieve high compression rati
- /html/fot/2001-09/msg00042.html (6,523 bytes)
- 12. Explosions (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:13:23 +0100
- We're just receiving TV news of the terrible disasters in New York and I'm sure the hearts of all of us in England go out to all the families of those who've lost their lives and those who have been
- /html/fot/2001-09/msg00057.html (7,025 bytes)
- 13. Rockingham 500 (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 06:12:29 +0100
- Hi Gang Despite problems with weepers on the new Rockingham oval which led to Thursday and Friday practice sessions being cancelled the first 'indy' race in England was awesome. It was a race long du
- /html/fot/2001-09/msg00124.html (8,225 bytes)
- 14. Weepers (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:45:43 +0100
- Hi Gang Weepers are areas on circuits where water or damp patches seep up to the surface in patches on an otherwise dry circuit. We had no rain at all the whole week end it was super weather, but hea
- /html/fot/2001-09/msg00145.html (7,142 bytes)
- 15. First ERA's (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 07:03:14 +0100
- Hi Gang I've just been looking through some notes about my late Godfather Raymond Mays and his first ERA's in 1934. After finishing second to a 3 litre Maserati at Brooklands in the mountain champion
- /html/fot/2001-08/msg00021.html (7,531 bytes)
- 16. Sad news (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:41:28 +0100
- I learnt on Friday from his daughter Doreen that Wilkie Wilkinson (Ecurie Ecosse & BRM) had passed away at the age of 98. Wilkie, only a few weeks ago, was drinking champagne and having fun at his 9
- /html/fot/2001-08/msg00262.html (6,468 bytes)
- 17. The death of the farting turtle (non tech!) (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:55:58 +0100
- Some years ago, my brother Ian organised a pro-am golf tournament in Southern Spain. A well known TV comedian got hold of a large and very lifelike plastic turtle with a sound gismo hidden in its rea
- /html/fot/2001-08/msg00288.html (7,215 bytes)
- 18. non tech (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:22:51 +0100
- Hi Gang Does anyone know if 'Tom O'Connor' is still around. He owned an American racing team called ROSEBUD RACING based in Victoria (somewhere near Houston I think) in the mid sixties. He had an ope
- /html/fot/2001-07/msg00060.html (6,662 bytes)
- 19. Masten Gregory (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:52:22 +0100
- Hi Group Just a bit of help for an article I'm writing. I once prepared a couple of Porsches for the late (and grate) Masten Gregory (a 910 and a 908). Now as you older FOTers will remember, Masten d
- /html/fot/2001-06/msg00151.html (6,706 bytes)
- 20. Rockingham Motor Speedway (score: 1)
- Author: "P Richardson" <paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 06:48:16 +0100
- Hi Gang Our brand new Oval track opened this Saturday at Rockingham (what a wonderful experience to have a racing circuit only a 20 minute drive from home). Nigel Mansell did a few demonstration laps
- /html/fot/2001-05/msg00241.html (8,181 bytes)
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