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Re: How Triumph lost....new? string: Edsel: Junk or new shape?

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Subject: Re: How Triumph lost....new? string: Edsel: Junk or new shape?
From: Ray McCrary <spook01@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 09:29:19 -0600
At 09:09 PM 11/28/97 -0800, Mike Lishego wrote:
>Keith Wheeler wrote:
>
>> but the
>> TR-7 is the only one that looks "modern" to her eye.
>
>       I went to a local car show with a buddy of mine, and we saw a TR-7.  
>His 
>first remark (re-marque?) was "When did Triumph put out a new sportscar?"
Simply 
>put, if you softened the lines of a TR-7, you could sell it as a '98, and
the public 
>would say "OK, how much?"  This holds especially true to us gen-x folks
who have 
>pierced whatevers and no job.  Guys about my age don't find the TR-7 too
bad looking, 
>and we think rubber-bumpered MGB's are OK too.  Of course, from what I've
heard about 
>the mechanics of a TR-7, they're a bugger to work on, but that's what
non-MG folks 
>said about my 'B.  I guess it's all in your point of view.  
>       As much as I hate to say it, if I could come across a cheap TR-7
convertible, 
>I'd buy it.  I wouldn't sell my 'B for it though.  I wouldn't go for the
hardtop 
>design either, they're pretty cramped little cars in that form.  Anyway,
if you'd 
>like to flame me for this revelation, go ahead, but when it comes to
future classics, 
>the wedge could be "the shape of things to come."
>
>-- 
>Michael S. Lishego
>St. Andrews Presbyterian College
>Elementary Education Major,
>English Minor, Class of 1999
>R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
>

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