...can't remember his name...
shorter..stouter... guy that runs TRF..
owns a PI TR5
Paul Tegler
1973 MGBGT - daily driver
1975 Spitfire - in Cherry Shape 1980 Spitfire - in re-hab
1972 GT6 - in the works
wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
(all new faster menu)
-----Original Message-----
From: ralph.jannelli <ralph.jannelli@cwix.com>
To: R.D. Waid <msp01091@isd.net>; Spitfires@autox.team.net
<Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: TRF Summer Party Car Show
>
>This probably was Charles Runyan's car, it was on the field at VTR in
>Portland also, again with the bonnet closed.
>
>Ralph Jannelli
>Matthews, NC
>'65 Spitfire MKII
>'72 Spitfire MKIV
>'80 TR8 DHC
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: R.D. Waid <msp01091@isd.net>
>To: <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:54 PM
>Subject: RE: TRF Summer Party Car Show
>
>
>>
>> Last year I visited the the Roadster Factory a few days after the Summer
>Party
>> (my in-laws live in PA about 25 mins from TRF). Charles Runyan, the TRF
>and
>> Coventry Inn owner, has a TR5 PI which I photographed while I was there
>(he
>> drove it to work that day). I bet it was the same car. I also got some
>pics of
>> the Triumph LeMans car which is parked in the lobby.
>>
>> Bob Waid
>> 71 Spirfire FK4081L
>> ----
>> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:25:37 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
>> Subject: TRF Summer Party Car Show
>>
>> Well, I didn't get to go to the whole Party, but I did get to drive
>> down to Indiana, PA for the car show yesterday. Man was it great.
>> Got to see more Triumphs in one place than I have seen in years.
>>
>> Learned a lot looking that is going to be very helpful in restoring
>> my 79 Spitfire. (Which, by the way, not only made the 200 mile each
>> way trip fine, but got 36mpg going it. Imagine what it would be if
>> I only had overdrive!!) Of course, after looking things over my wife
>> decided she liked the TR6's. Depending on how this Spitfire turns
>> out maybe that can be our next. Myself, I really liked the Stags.
>>
>> One curiosity though. In front of the Coventry Inn was a TR5 that
>> had 2500 on the side and PI on the back. I have never seen one of
>> these before. But when I was in Europe, I had a friend with a
>> Triumph 2.5PI. We always used to wonder about taking a TR6 or TR250
>> and putting the engine, trans and diff from the PI into it. If I
>> understand what I saw (unfortunately, this car must be someones
>> transportation and wasn't in the show, so the hood was down and I
>> didn't get to see the engine) Triumph actually sold a car that was
>> exactly this. Can anyone (like it's owner!) verify this to satisfy
>> my curiosity??
>>
>> I was also surprised to see some cars being shown that were not even
>> at the stage of repair that mine was when I bought it. Makes me sad
>> I didn't decide to show it. Maybe next year!!
>>
>> All the best.
>>
>> bill
>>
>> - --
>> Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three
wolves
>> bill@cs.uofs.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>> University of Scranton |
>> Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>
>>
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