Fw: TC 1920

[Walter Prechsl privat]

an interesting info i have got today -- i ll forward it to all of you -- maybe somebody can help? walter ________________________________________________________________________

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] LondonYob@cs.com [b]To:[/b] walter@publi-consult.com [b]Sent:[/b] Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:25 PM [b]Subject:[/b] TC 1920 I would like to inform the current owner of TC 1920 that I bought his car in 1951 in Salt Lake City, drove it everywhere the US Air Force sent me during the Korean conflict, drove it every day and raced it in over a hundred races in the eight years I owned it. By my calculations and adding to the mileage when I bought it I estimate it had 240,000 miles on when I sold it. It went to a lady who continued racing it for a few more years in the Bay Area before selling to a Chinese-American in San Francisco. I note the number is not on your list but suspect someone knows where it is today and the current owner might like some photos of it's earlier days. Robert Winkelmann londonyob@cs.com

[AJChalmers@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/01 2:30:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, walter@publi-consult.com writes:

It went to a lady who continued racing it for a few more years in the Bay Area before selling to a Chinese-American in San Francisco. I note the number is not on your list but suspect someone knows where it is today and the current owner might like some photos of it's earlier days. Robert Winkelmann

Bob was a founder of the Abingdon Roughriders, along with Jack Vandermale and Lucien Remy - in 1955. There was a great article in Road & Track several years ago about Bob's adventures with the car and a forlorn shepherd dog he picked whilst cross country transiting. Somewhere around 1960 a fellow named Yale Lee was in the club. Perhaps he had Bob's car. We didn't keep track of numbers then so don't know if there was a match.