Thanks Jon. Stories like that are what its all about.
kengano@advant.com
downstate illinois
1959 TR3A TS57756L
1958 Model 10 Sedan TBE9239LDLB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of jonmac
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 1998 2:57 PM
> To: List, Tiumphs
> Subject: Making dreams come true
>
>
>
> Hi, Guys
>
> I know this is 'off-marque' but I was like a kid today with a new toy.
> Unfortunately I couldn't keep it as 'Uncle Jaguar' would have been most
> upset.
> For more years than I care to remember, the car of my dreams has been a
> Jaguar SS100. For me, this has to be the archetypal British Sports Car.
> Rare as hens teeth and positively orgasmic to view!! We had
> Supercar Sunday
> at Gaydon today with a rather boring lot of Ferraris, Lambos, de Tomatos
> etc.
> Lurking in the midst, were TWO SS100's - one of which belongs to Jaguar
> Heritage and which was on loan to Gaydon for the weekend along with a C
> type and an XK120. Came the time for going home, and one of my colleagues
> appears from the Workshops with a fistful of keys. "Who'll help me get
> these beasts inside?" says he. "I will, if I can have the keys to the SS,"
> say I jokingly, and before I know it, a bundle of keys are hurtling at me
> through the air.
> It was bright red, with faded tan leather seats. It started second push of
> the button, no synchro (or maybe it had worn out?) and a noise from under
> the heavily louvred bonnet and from those exhausts, was sheer
> music. I took
> it the long way round to the garage - i.e. round the site twice - all of a
> mile and a half, and was dragged screaming in protest from the driving
> seat. Sorry to bore you with all this stuff but the earth truly moved and
> I'm on a high - so high in fact, the clouds are far far below.
>
> John Mac
>
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