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Re: Where did everyone go ? (long)

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Subject: Re: Where did everyone go ? (long)
From: Carbucks <carbucks@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:54:07 -0700
> But where were the TR-6's, the Big Healys, the Spitfires?  Maybe I was
just
> unlucky.....

Had the same disappointment when I travelled to the UK twenty years ago.

I learned that most were exported to North America. For example, there were
only eight TR8's ever produced for the UK. In the last few years some Brits
have been importing LBC's back from NA and converting them.

The one exception is the Mini Cooper. Understand there's a fellow in Calgary
who brings the Coopers over here.

Martin Buck
76 Spitfire
80 TR8
80 TR7



----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Parrott" <parrotthead01@comcast.net>
To: "Craig Smith" <CraigS@iewc.com>; "'Spit list'"
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 5:09 AM
Subject: RE: Where did everyone go ? (long)


> Dear Spit Listers...
>
> While on our 17 day coach tour, I kept a watch for all of the pre 1980
LBC's
> that I could spot while my nose was pressed against the window.  My
unspoken
> anticipation was that I'll be treated to 17 days in LBC Heaven, with
> Spitfires, Morgans and MBG's running the back roads, complete with the
> wicker basket lashed to their boots, and pretty blonds in the passenger
seat
> (and a few driving, as well).  Alas, here are my results, in this totally
> unscientific survey (which was limited to where I was seated that day, and
> what I could see):
<snip>

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