Like Reg I have been to Holland recently (got back yesterday) - I kept a
log of the cars that I saw - three MGBs (two parked one on the road),
one MGA (actually being driven), several Fiat & Alfa Romeo 1960's sports
cars, a TVR, a soft top Morris Minor (in the Hague) and lastly a single
black TR6 in an underground car park in the Hague. Classic pedal
cycles I saw by the thousand, canals by the hundred, but no other LBCs
or anything like them ! I was only there Thursday to Sunday but I
would have expected to see more as the weather was ideal - especially
for soft top cars (Mazdas and BMWs were the commonest modern soft tops
that I saw)
I wouldn't like to drive in Holland though - those pedal cycles are
terrifying.
The amusing thing was that in Holland they are much more easy going than
other countries. Where else would you see the Red light district being
advertised as a tourist attraction, alng with TWO 'sex' museums, a
Cannabis museum and 'do it yourself' growing kits for cannabis openly
on sale in the flower market !!
Unfortunatley the museums were closed when I had finished my main tour
of Amsterdam and I missed the red light district - still it IS on the
Amsterdam Web site though......
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Cheers
Brian Johnson (UK)
1963 TR4 AFP 503A (UK) / IZS 733(USA) - CT27216-L (now not L but O )
1954 TR2 46 BHX TS554-O UK Car in pieces
1989 Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 GLI - Eurobox but it goes !
Internet b.johnson@lycosmail.com
Website http://websites.diamond.co.uk/~b.johnson/index.htm
Tim Gaines wrote:
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> I just returned from two weeks in England and Scotland where I saw
> only TWO Triumphs during the entire trip. I saw a Stag in London
> traffic on the first day of the trip and a Spitfire in Burford on
> the next to last day. It was parked in front of a repair shop. Never
> saw one at all in Scotland. There just don't seem to be many Triumphs
> at all. And I was really looking for them. I did see about two dozen
> MGBs though. Can anyone tell me why there are so few Triumphs in the UK?
>
> Tim Gaines
> 1974 TR6
> 1980 Spitfire
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