My dad owned a TR3 when I was a kid. My brother and I rode around in the
back "seat (?)" (you can tell we were really small tikes then). I grew up in
Iowa, and still remember how cold that car was in the winter. Also remember
my mom driving it in some severe cold because she couldn't get the top up (I
think it was autumn) but I still loved it. All the kids on the block would
hang around just to be around that car. We called it the "batmobile" even
though it was red. I know that my dad still wishes he had it, but growing
kids will longer legs kind of rule out a TR3 (or any other TR for that
matter!)
My wife let me get a TR just recently. I couldn't be happier, even with all
the parts laying around the garage. Because I know that someday this car
will be tearing up the streets around here.
Bryan
bdstinocher@sewsus.com
502-782-7397 xt. 2284
68 TR 250 CD 5853 L
----Original Message-----
From: Charles Duckworth [SMTP:cnlduckwor@ninenet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:40 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: How/when did the Triumph bug bite you?
Two of us were discussing today when we first were 'bitten' by the
Triumph
bug and was wondering how some of the others on the lists decided on
a
Triumph vs another make of car. For me my interest in British
sports cars
began back in 1968-70 in high school. I had a friend in Gladstone,
Missouri who's father rebuilt MG-TD's, MGA's and their family car
was a
white 1960 Jaguar sedan. The basement and garage always had at
least two
or three cars in pieces and as mechanical challenged as I was, he
allow me
to help. After college (1973) I came home one summer and my brother
owned
a black 1964 Spitfire with a white hardtop - after 'borrowing' it
several
times I was hooked. I was working for the railroad in western
Kansas and
had enough money to buy my first new car, so off to Wichita I went
one
weekend and ordered a new 1974 yellow Spitfire through the British
Leyland
dealer (this is when the Triumph ads had the Spitfire aircraft in
the
background of the yellow Spit). Drove the Spitfire all over Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Arkansas while railroading and got to be
friends
with a yardmaster in St. Joe, Missouri who drove a GT-6 - what a
running
breast this car was (probably when my six cylinder interest was
kindled).
Got married in 1976 and traded the car on a Volkswagen Rabbit.
Still the
Triumph bug was there so after the first two kids I found a red 1964
TR-4
and drove it as my daily driver for three years (part of the time in
Omaha
winters). Last December I bought a '76 BRG TR-6 and have been
'content'
since.
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