I forgot to add that Geoff had previously raced a GT6 in his earlier days
but I shouldn't hold that against him as he has now seen the light
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony <tdains@bigpond.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Cc: <oilyrag@hsrca.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: Nomination
> I will second Geoff nomination even though his car presentation sends us
all
> up. A photo would not do it justice
> Tony Dains
> TR6
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wes Dayton <oilyrag@hsrca.org.au>
> To: Friends of Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>
> Cc: Geoff Byrne <gkbyrne@optushome.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:07 AM
> Subject: Nomination
>
>
> > The small but enthusiastic Australian FOT team has been enhanced by the
> > addition of a lovingly restored TR6 owned by Geoff Byrne. Geoff very
> > successfully competed this weekend at our race meeting at Eastern Creek
> > (Sydney).
> >
> > I'm sure that this nomination will be seconded by one of our other
> > Australian members who competed with Geoff as long as they can figure
out
> > how to spell "FOT"!
> >
> > Wes Dayton
> >
> > By the way - with my TR3A currently engineless, I had my first run in a
> > Historic Formula Ford kindly offered to me by well-known local TR man
> Grant
> > Burford; to say it was a bit different that the TR would be the
> > understatement of the year. Fun - yes, but not really a permanent part
of
> my
> > future considering I was about 30 years older than the next oldest
driver!
> >
> > Finally, Andrew Gibson ran away with his race in his TR3A - but I'll
leave
> > it to him to brag about that; he may also have something to say about
some
> > new Dunlop tyres he tried out?
> >
> > Wes Dayton
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