On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, at around 11:50:34 local time, James Carruthers
<j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
>Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:
> Dear James,
>
> I fear that you are turning into someone's grandfather.
> String-backed
> driving gloves, indeed!
>
>What the ones as worn by Graham Hill, Innes Ireland, John Surtees, Phil
>Hill, Richie Ginther, Trevor Taylor, Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney,
>Giancarlo Baghetti and Lorenzo Bandini?
Sorry, perhaps I should have said "someone's great-grandfather..." <g>
> They're sort of string back....
>http://www.holden.co.uk/prod_images/050_345.jpg
>
>I'm sure they'll be (I hate the word) "retro" enough to be considered
>cool. Stuff like this always comes back in to fashion! :) Im thinking
>on the more functional side of thing too - being in an advanced
>tarmacrobatics team and all!.
You are mad as a hatter, aren't you?
> By the way, I think it would be better to call ourselves the Triumph
> Advanced Tarmacrobatics Team Yellow. That way we can claim to have
> a
> good reason for driving TATTY cars...
>
>Or the TAT Team....
I like it.
> yellow sounds as if we're cowards or something...we
>need to give over the fearless image... if we have to go with yellow
>then perhaps Triumph Advanced Tarmacrobatics Team, Yellow Squadron :)
>Anyway, I don't like to think of my car as tatty, more "well used" and
>"cultured"... :)
My car, on the other hand....
ATB
--
Mike
Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FH105671
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