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Re: young, younger, youngest?

To: "Gano, Ken" <kengano@advant.com>, "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@pangea.ca>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: young, younger, youngest?
From: "birdy" <p.bird@virgin.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 15:38:55 -0000
sorry but i was 6 when my dad bought the tr now sitting in my garage

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> From: Gano, Ken <kengano@advant.com>
> To: Dave Terrick <dterrick@pangea.ca>; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: young, younger, youngest?
> Date: 21 December 1997 07:28
> 
> I have to jump in here.  Dad bought the TR3A I am now restoring when I
was
> 7.  (in 1959, you can figure the rest.)
> 
> kengano@advant.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Terrick <dterrick@pangea.ca>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 8:55 PM
> Subject: young, younger, youngest?
> 
> 
> >Well,  DuperSude got me....  I was 15 when I got my TR4a.  I'm working
on
> >the restoration now.  Of course,  since 15, I've bought, threased, and
> >crashed a TR6,  restored a GT6 racer,  and done two TR6 restos for
people
> >with less time and more money than me.
> >
> >However,  my "young" story goes back to GRADE 1 when I was 6.
> >
> >The Grade 6 teacher,  Phil coulter, had this cool french blue TR6 and
used
> >to whip around a corner in 2nd gear at full throttle along my walking
route
> >to school.  I vowed I would have one.  A few years later, a friend of
> >mine's older brother's girlfriend's (dad) had a black TR4a that she
drove.
> > I vowed I'd have one of them too.
> >
> >I got them in the reverse order.  I figure that means I've been a TR
junkie
> >for 23 years now.  I'm 29.
> >
> >Dave Terrick
> >Winnipeg

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