{"id":490768,"date":"2009-07-01T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=46850"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:20:52","slug":"peter-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/peter-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_709062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709062\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-709062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL-PETELYONS-1-293x415.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-709062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take something for granted, and we risk having it ripped away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For me, foolish me, Peter Bryant was always going to be there. An interesting guy, a very human guy, fun, warm, witty\u2014often scandalously so\u2014bright and innovative, astoundingly energetic. A ball o\u2019 fire whose boisterousness could be alarming, but mostly charming. Everybody seemed to like and admire him. Over the past 40 years I enjoyed many times spent with him and, more recently, his wife Lois.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abruptly, he\u2019s gone. Lois said, \u201cIt\u2019s like the sun went out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We had just been together\u2014alas, not together enough\u2014at the new Riverside Automotive Museum\u2019s \u201cLegends\u201d gathering at the end of March. It was a very busy weekend. Peter and I both had small roles to play in the event itself, and with our wives we both were operating table displays to hawk our respective wares. His autobiography, Can-Am Challenger, published by David Bull and winner of a 2008 IAMA Gold Medal, seemed to be going deservedly well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only a few feet separated our setups, but business was brisk. Lots of enthusiastic and good-humored people were eddying around, wanting to talk about racing history. Peter and I only grabbed a couple of brief chats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s only nine and a half minutes from the old circuit,\u201d he remarked the first morning (our hotel was out there). \u201cOh, I just did it in 9-15,\u201d I retorted. His eyes narrowed. \u201cI\u2019ll do it in seven tomorra!!\u201d An old racer who refused to age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former racer Peter Bryant was a donor to the auction. To help raise funds for the museum\u2019s designated charities, he brought a set of copies of his original full-scale drawings for his Ti22. That was the quick and solid \u201cTitanium Car\u201d in which Jackie Oliver gave the Can-Am McLarens several runs for their prize monies in 1969 and 1970.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commanding the stage, unrepentant Cockney accent booming through the mike in his fist, Peter presided as museum founder Doug Magnon and Can-Am racer Oscar Koveleski unrolled and displayed the huge scrolls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople don\u2019t believe I drew anythin\u2019; they think I did it all with chalk on the floor!\u201d Peter bellowed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These drawings were very expensive to produce, he claimed. Done on very special paper, they cost him probably $750 a set. He was seeking an appreciative home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening bid was $100. Peter frowned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_709053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709053\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-709053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2-100x93.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2-770x719.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p2-293x273.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-709053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mosport Can-Am, 1970, and Jackie Oliver is leading the race in the Bryant Ti22\u2014ahead of Dan Gurney in the factory McLaren! Gurney finally got ahead to win, but not by much.\u00a0Photo: Pete Lyons \/ www.petelyons.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keeping my hands under firm rein, lest they betray an appreciation I could not afford, I contented myself with memories of the Ti22 itself. Peter Bryant\u2019s Titanium Car burst on the Can-Am scene three races from the end of the 1969 season, at Laguna Seca.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those were exciting days for a racecar enthusiast. You could almost count on seeing something new every weekend. Some of these brave experiments obviously stood no chance of going near victory circle, but the brand-new white wedge unloaded by the latest newcomers looked promising. Tidy, businesslike, aerodynamically aggressive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bryant had given it full-length fences, to trap high-pressure air atop the chisel-shaped body for better downforce. We hadn\u2019t seen that before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Underneath, there was a lot of titanium, including the monocoque. I was shown something made of this space-age metal. It practically floated in my hands. Intriguing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new car proved both as solid and as quick as it looked. Teething troubles handicapped its performance at Laguna, but Oliver nursed it to the finish line. At Riverside two weeks later, he qualified 4th and was fighting for that position in the race when something broke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my post-race beavering, I rushed up to Peter to ask about the problem. \u201cDifferential,\u201d he told me, and I published that. It was only years later at a Can-Am reunion banquet that he revealed a titanium component had fractured. I braced him about misleading me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Titanium Metal Corporation of America was sponsorin\u2019 us,\u201d he retorted forthrightly. \u201cI weren\u2019t gonna tell you the truth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bryant\u2019s Ti22 went on to several stirring performances in 1970, including a stint in the lead at Mosport and three strong 2nd-place finishes, with one joint fastest lap. Its strong Ti tub also saved Ollie during a nasty \u201cblowover\u201d tumble at St. Jovite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monocoque was too rumpled to repair, so Peter quickly built a new one. He set the old one out in the alley behind his shop, inverted, to act as a barbecue table. One morning it was gone. Peter figured it had been picked up as trash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s probably in a landfill under Newport Beach,\u201d he said. We agreed that one day some archeologist will dig it up and wonder, \u201cWhat the heck is this?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_709054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709054\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-709054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/FL200907-p3-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-709054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After his Titanium Car project was stolen from him, Bryant joined Shadow to build a 1971 replacement for the original \u201cTiny Tire\u201d car with merely medium-sized tires. Here at St. Jovite he\u2019s pleased to see the ever-inquisitive Denny Hulme\u2019s interest in the new Shadow\u2019s inboard front brakes.\u00a0Photo: Pete Lyons \/ www.petelyons.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the first Bryant, one of the few serious challengers to the mighty McLarens, that\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Few at the Riverside auction seemed to appreciate Peter\u2019s drawings. Bidding was slow. Peter grew frustrated. Finally Dan Gurney raised his hand and took the rolled-up scrolls home for $200.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf anybody wants a new Titanium Car, we\u2019ve got the drawings,\u201d Dan quipped. In fact, Peter was already involved in a project to have a new one built by Craig Pence in Boise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Energy, enthusiasm, surprising expertise, that was Peter Bryant. Oh, and good humor that was often outrageous. One time at a gathering I was chatting with Oscar when Peter bear-hugged the two of us and loudly called out, \u201cLook, a Polak with two Peters!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Bryant fell to an apparent heart attack in the early hours of March 31, the Tuesday after Riverside, just a few days short of his 72nd birthday. Among many expressions of grief that came to my own inbox was this from a gentleman who had only just met him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was at the Legends of Riverside event,\u201d he began. \u201cI was caught up with Mr. Bryant and\u2026expressed my admiration. He took me by the arm to the next building and flew through his book like a school kid. He hardly slowed down at all and made me feel like we were friends. What could I do? I bought his book and he enthusiastically wrote in it for me. I have never met a man with such joy, enthusiasm, and as friendly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI personally felt badly for him when you could see that he had his heart and soul in his drawings that were up for auction, and they didn\u2019t command the bids commensurate with his passion and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was with great sadness that I learned of his death shortly after we parted in Riverside. I felt that I had just made a great acquaintance; he brightened my life for a weekend and I was looking forward to hearing what he was going to do next. I don\u2019t believe that I have had so much given to me and then taken away in such a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amen. Rest at peace, my friend. You done good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take something for granted, and we risk having it ripped away. For me, foolish me, Peter Bryant was always going to be there. 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