I parked my TR4 next to a red one with Wisconsin plates at my local
independent bookstore in a south suburb of Denver. Walking toward the
store, I nodded to a young fellow ... who went on to the red car. Now
I'm not quite 40 but evidently I'm getting old enough that college
students -- as this fellow was -- look so young they ought not be
driving legally. :) I turned around and asked about the car, technically
his brother's but his Dad is a Triumph guy and also races a Porsche 914.
Sorry, didn't get a name. Bright guy with incredible enthusiasm for the car.
Went around the corner to Home Depot and returned to my car to find a
hopped-up GT6 owner showing his 5 year old the TR4. The GT6 was hopped
up, not the owner, with webers and such. He said it's a quick car, but
he was at a light next to an old Cobra one day and learned fast.
Finally, a TR4 sighting sighting close to home. I brought back the
project TR4 on Thursday. Hired a flatbed, drove it into the garage.
Wasn't till the next morning that my lovely wife opened the garage and
noticed the car. A look of dismay and surprise (um, I told her when I
decided *not* to buy the car, but perhaps failed to mention changing my
mind a couple days later) and I blurted something about selling spare
parts on eBay and how we needed to use up that tax refund anyway. She
said "the body looks to be in really good shape."
Steven Newell
Littleton, CO
'62 TR4 x 2
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