In a message dated 1/8/2003 11:05:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, Scott Tilton
<sdtilton@yahoo.com> writes:
>In 1986 when I was 16, I got my first car a 63 TR4.
>Wrecked it a few months later . . . still have some of the parts though.
>Bought a 64 TR4 a couple days later.
>Now its body is up on stands in the garage.
>All its parts are in boxes on the shelf.
>
>Got another 63 TR4 a year or so later. (That would make me a Three TR4 owner
>by age 18)
Sounds eerily familiar! How many of us had Triumphs at age 16 and still do? Dad
already had his Herald (his second Triumph) when I turned 16. I picked up my
own Herald a few months later, then another as a parts car when I wrecked the
first one. Then a year or so later, Dad and I decided to put away his Herald
for future restoration and picked up a used Mk3 Spitfire. I was 17. It just
continued from there, getting worse with each year.
Ironically, I still have and am restoring that parts car and Dad's original
Herald 34 years later, and I also still have a few bits of the other
cars...along with far too many other cars and bits.
See what you "youngsters" have got to look forward to? :-)
--Andy Mace
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