Sounds great Terry, I need to build myself a street TR3. Lord knows I
don't have to buy a thing to put one together--maybe two.
I took Peyote out this afternoon. A similar situation though it was
only about 100 yards. I needed some space in the shop to clean out
all the crap. So I backed Peyote down the gravel drive (not easy in a
car that has too little ground clearance to drive over a 5/8ths
socket) to my steep, moss covered driveway, got the nose pointed
upwards and gave it the gas. It didn't move. The rear tires were just
spinning, so I lifted a little and it drifted right. Gave it a little
poke and it drifted left. back and forth a few times until the tires
warmed up and the moss got scrubbed off, and I zoomed to the top of
the driveway, turned the wheel right with no effect whatsoever on the
nose, lifted a little and the car turned in, gave it some poop and
the back end swung out, the car squirted into into the driveway. I
stopped, got out, and thought--Man, that's Peyote in a nutshell.
Nothing works the way it should, but everything WORKS.
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On Apr 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Terry Stetler wrote:
> Well...
>
> I finally got my street TR3 out this weekend. She languished most
> of last
> year with a battery problem, an Optima no less, so I called the
> shop where I
> purchased it and they swapped it for a new one, very cool. Popped
> it in on
> Saturday and took an exploritory first drive. All was good.
>
> So..
>
> This morning I awoke early and drove the TR3 12 miles to my
> habitual Sunday
> breakfast spot. After an old fashioned way too big American
> breakfast, I set
> out from Perrysburg Ohio along the Maumee River to Defiance Ohio.
> A beautiful
> twisty drive on state and county roads. the morning chill warded
> off by my
> inordinate caloric intake and my A2 flight jacket. ( I never put
> the top up.)
>
> What a sweet car the TR3 is. A real car. One you have to drive,
> not just
> operate. Everything from the concise instruments to the delicate
> drift of the
> tail through a sweeper, to the intake bark of the Weber carbs
> brings you back
> to what driving is all about. Only a motorcycle is a more visceral
> experience
> than this.
>
> I come up on a rubber bumper MGB (why on earth did they keep making
> those
> things?) that is taking it's good time, I casaually move the
> fingers of my
> left hand to the OD switch, drop down to normal and let 2185cc's do
> the
> talking. The hapless MG becomes a spec in my mirrors.
>
> And so it went for just over 100 miles.
>
> Life is good.
>
>
> Terry Stetler
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