My TR8 submitted by Bill Casey (Can)

Featured in Wedge Ezine, June 1998
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I'm very interested in TR8's.

I will tell you how I got into Triumph's first. I will make it short, I promise.

Well, it started when my friend bought a '79 TR7. I fell in love with the shape of it. Then my brother bought a '77 TR7 back in '87, so I  wanted a TR7 real bad.

So in '89 I bought myself a 1980 convertible TR7, and I was in seventh heaven.

I said I would make this short. A year later I bought a TR8, and I have never looked back. I love the TR8 and anything to do with it, so I have been going to the A.B.F.M. for the last nine years, and as always I can't wait till the May long weekend. Next year I want to show my TR8 in it.

Before you ask, I never thought it was good enough to show. As of October I am going to start to restore it. Can't wait.
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Back to the show. There were about 350 to 400 cars, like any other British car, all great looking. There were 5 TR8's and one TR7 (never to many TR7's) .I don't know why. Can't forget little brother - after  all that's were it all began. Right?

It was a very good turn out. Lots of Healeys and TR6's, and Tiger's, Mg's, Lotus's, and Jaguar's. We also have a drive coming up in August, and it will be a lot fun.

Talk to you later. Thank you very much for letting me write this!

Bill Casey ( triumphtr8@hotmail.com )
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