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Re: Triumph MIS-identification

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Subject: Re: Triumph MIS-identification
From: Ben Miller <No1BroncoFan@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:04:08 -0800
>>Don't really know how she missed the "T-R-I-U-M-P-H" in five inch high gold
letters splayed across the rockers<<

Perhaps she thought you were a fan of the band "Triumph".

I actually had one guy comment "I thought all those 280Zs came with a 
hatchback."

'79 Spit - "Bitsy"
Corvallis, Or.
--
-Broncos football is not a matter of life and death. It's WAY more important 
than
that!-

Barry Schwartz wrote:

> Well, I had the ultimate um. . . *complement*?  While fueling up at the
> local gas station I heard behind me a couple of ooooh's and awes and not
> really paying attention to it until I heard a woman probably in her early
> to mid thirties say, Is that a VIPER?  She had to say it twice, cause I
> really didn't think she was talking to me.  Now I have had the usual is
> that an MG,Porsche, or even . . yes. . a Fiat, but this was a first.
> I of course smiled and said no it's better than a Viper, it's a Triumph.
> An old Spitfire actually.  (I can see how one could be easily confused :-})
> Don't really know how she missed the "T-R-I-U-M-P-H" in five inch high gold
> letters splayed across the rockers - but it gave me quite a chuckle - You
> think Dodge (Chrysler) would be as amused??
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.netBen Miller

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