-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Marr <mmarr@idcnet.com>
To: Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 2:24 PM
Subject: Fw: A Miscellany of TR stuff
This did not seem to make it to the list when I first sent it, so I will try
again. If in fact it did make it to the list before, then please accept my
humblest apologies for sending this twice. Of course, if, in fact, it did
not make it to the list the first time, one must ask the question, "Why?"
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Marr <mmarr@idcnet.com>
To: Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 8:45 AM
Subject: A Miscellany of TR stuff
Yesterday, I drove on the perfect TR highway, unfortunately not in my TR3A
but in a rental Buick (don't get me started on GM products...). I drove
from Lexington, KY, to Harrodsburg, KY, along highway 68, which is
designated a "Scenic Bye-way" by the state. It was beautiful! A narrow,
winding 2-lane highway, passing through prime Kentucky horse farms, then
switchbacking down to a tremendously scenic river crossing, then back up the
bluffs on the other side, then more horse farms. Has anybody out there
driven this in a TR? Was it fun? We have a few nice roads like this in the
western part of Wisconsin, but nothing that combines all the elements of
scenery, architecture and driveability that this highway has.
So having arrived back home last evening after a good day of business,
combined with this great drive, I turned on "Legends of Motorsports" and
watched a film made by Standard-Triumph, documenting the 1954 Alpine Rally.
The film was made to promote the perfromance of the factory team of TR2s
(long doors) and the one Standard 10! Great film, with lots of great shots
of TR2s in the alps, with some good on-board photography. The TR2s were up
against Sunbeam Alpines (the early, "upright" body), XK120s, and lots of
Peugeots, Simcas, Fiats and Porsches. Wonderful!!
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