> If we didn't personalize our cars they'd all look the same and be,
> well, rather
> dull. At car shows I bypass the "original" cars and gravitate to the
> modified
> versions to figure out what they did. Anyone can have (buy) an
> original car!
Ah, you would walk right past my TR3 then if the bonnet were down.
Then comes another saying, anyone can rebuild a car and have it end up
modified from original. That's easy to do. But it takes a lot of
careful work and attention to detail to rebuild a car and have it
appear like it was just delivered from the factory.
When it comes to people's choice voting, my vote always goes for the
daily driver whose owner actually puts miles and miles on them but
keeps it properly maintained. The 100 point concourse trailer queen
never gets my vote for people's choice. I believe Triumphs fall into
the category of car that are meant to be a dynamic display and not a
static display.
T. J. Wakeman
1960 Land Rover 109 Dormobile owned since 1978
1961 Triumph TR3A owned since 1986, the new car
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