Hmm. Kai's said some interesting things here. Good thing he doesn't really
believe them all.
Those of you with children will know that
> a child's interest in a particular object or subject matter may be piqued
> for a while and suddenly dwindle and then a complete loss of interest
> follows.
I thought the suggestion was to interest young people -- which I presume to
mean people in their 20's. You know, those children that started all the
dot-coms.
Those of us with the ambition, resources, and the least limitations,
> will fill the void of fewer owners by purchasing and housing greater
numbers
> of Triumphs.
Right, all those retirees who, having shed the shackles of work, children
and geographic location, are just dying to build a 10-car garage and do body
work.
It was at about that time, while I was a freshman
> at Ithaca College, that I read a classified ad on the VTR site for a GT6
> also located in Ithaca being sold by a Cornell professor. I had already
had
> my TR6 for about a year, and my MGB for 4 years more, so wasn't new to the
> cars.
Boy, I'll say. You got an MGB when you were 13?
> I ask every list member from here on in, to discourage new (but not
> inherent) interest in the Triumph marque.
Don't think you're get many takers on that one, Kai. But sadly, I suspect
the same net effect will happen naturally. I see the "LBC Restoration Age"
as inherently limited in time, and those people who are currently driving
Honda Civics with lowered suspensions and louder exhausts will -- in 20
years -- be restoring Miata's and Z-3's (probably converted to alcohol), not
Triumphs and MGs. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
===
Martin Secrest
73 GT6 (worker bee)
72 TR6 (garage queen)
Arlington, VA
"Most of the things I worry about ... never happen anyway." -- Tom Petty
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