Whoooooops!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rookie list operator messed up.
The message quoted below went out (as a result of an accidental key stroke)
when I was only half done writing it. The gist of the finished message (to
come later) includes my concern for how data is collected, also my support
for a net register. Thirty years of doing this by hand and looking at a lot
of other people's data taught me something. It just wasn't how to use this PC.
Look for more later.
>Retroactive Registry efforts can be traced back as early as 1955. My
>personal efforts started in the latter 60's and became formalized in in the
>early 70's within my involment with the Triumph Register of America.
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>Generic "Registers" are started for various reasons by people with different
>objectives. The worst I've seen is the obsessive number collector who writes
>dowm every thing he's read or written and wants to call it a database.
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>Collaboration over the years has produced what I feel is the most
>comprehensive list of surviving TR2 thru 3b. The web is one more souce of
>input. However it is a tracking vehicle and probably will never be a true
>census until we go out and open every garage, turn over every stone and
>search the bottoms of all the oceans in the world. For the moment, any
>collection of TR 2-3, etc., info should include owner, commission number,
>body tag numbers and engine numbers, city and state, etc., where it now
>resides. Car bios are good. Some are even collecting BMHLT "Birth
>Certificate" info.
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>BTW, whenever any one thinks they have found them all call me. I'll open up
>a couple of time capsules and show you a few more. For the present, Triumph
>Register of America is still the precedent for concise information about
>your cutdown door piece of unique automotive engineering.
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> Reflected below is the Enthusiasm under which the Triumph Register of
>America was founded. The inspired and enthusiastic TR2 thru 3B owners were
>the foundation for it's sucsess and credibility . The TR/4 has recently been
>brought under the wings of TRA to aid in providing consice technical
>information to yet another of the wet sleeve engineering marvels of the TR
>series.
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> TRIUMPH REGISTER OF AMERICA
> Formed to Preserve the Marque TR-2/3/3A/3B/
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>TRA PHILOSOPHY
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>THE TRIUMPH REGISTER OF AMERICA (TRA) is the only organization devoted
>solely to the TR-2/3 What does this mean to you as a potential member? It
>means that for the most comprehensive look at every problem regarding the
>mechanics of your car -- for the best guidance on parts sources - for a real
>membership with other hard core, wind-in-the-face, rain-in-the-lap people -
>the Triumph Register of America offers the best you can find.
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>How can you chatracterize our membership? We believe in side-curtains. We
>believe in engines that last forever. We believe in a rock-solid ride and
>cut-down doors. We believe that overheating in traffic is an unchangeable,
>natural phenomenon, just as earthquakes and tornadoes are, no matter how
>unfortinate they might be. We believe that the person inside an automobile
>who is cold in the winter and hot in the summer - just like the weather
>outside - is a more healthy person, who will no doubt live longer than those
>who drive along in a controlled, unnatural environment. And most of all, we
>believe that the TR 2/3 series is THE LAST mass-produced, cut-down door,
>side-curatained sports car that will ever be produced. As such, it holds a
>special place in the hearts of its Triumph Register of America owners, for
>it represents the finest of an honest and rugged car design that is capable
>of providing immense sporting pleasure at a reasonable cost. If you think
>like we do, won't you join us?
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