Well my story is the opposite of what you guys are describing. I was
given a car to go off to school in at the age of 18. When I was at the
dealership picking up the VW, I looked across the parking lot and saw a
white TR6 (all the cars I see are white for some reason) in the used car
area. This was in 1981 btw.
I took a long look at it from a safe distance and decided that I SHOULD
NOT under any circumstances walk over there. If I had it would have
been all over.
This was a good decision since I kept the VW for 7 years after that, but
treated it like the proverbial "red-headed step-child." If I had come
home with the TR6 at that point, then I can guarantee that it would have
suffered a similar fate and there would be one less Six on the road.
So by waiting an extra 20 years, I figure that I was helping everyone
out by not destroying a Triumph. Well now, I've got one and while it's
not perfect, it's also not subject to the shenanigans that I would have
put it through at a younger age.
This is not intended to be a slight to anyone younger than I who owns a
Triumph; I was just not what you would call a responsible driver in
those days.
R. Ashford Little II
www.geocities.com/ralittle2
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From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:51 AM
To: Scott Tilton; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: re: Listers age--No LBC content--
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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