From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill Restaurant in Watkins Glen when his broadsliding TC kicked a haybale through its plate glass window! He drove his TC with controlled abandon through the streets of The Glen to…
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