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Re: Dying legend

To: R John Lye <rjl6n@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Dying legend
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:39:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: rangerc@ix.netcom.com, TRIUMPHS@Autox.Team.Net
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, R John Lye wrote:

> On Sep 25,  4:37pm, rangerc@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > I was parking at the local Burger King one night, and two teens on bikes 
> > stopped short, staring at the car. "Wow, what IS that??".  "Triumph", I
> > said.  "Cool, that's that new car from Germany, right?".
> 
> Well, since BMW now owns Rover, who in turn own the Triumph name,
> those two teenagers were actually on the right track.

...and Siegfried Bettmann WAS German.

And if you have to ask "who" he was.... ;-)

--Andy

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