Kai - hadn't seen you for awhile... Welcome back.
I work at a university; and whenever I drive to campus in the TR3 (like
today); it invariably will draw a crowd. As part of the Theatre Program we
have a BRIT residency which brings several notables from the GB to teach and
interact with our students over an eight week period. The residency is in
Jan/Feb; but each year in the Homecoming parade myself and another faculty
member drive our LBC's (his is a Sunbeam Alpine) with several students
walking along in period costumes. British Flags a'flyin'... We get our
fair share of finger pointing...
Later,
Carl F. Musson,
BTW - beautiful day today.. almost 80... played hooky at lunch and took a
48 mile drive... Tomorrow the same.
You can't tell which way the car went by just looking at the road...
TR3A's - TS25264L ('58 Almost Daily Driver)
& TS81802LO - ('61 Concours d'Wannabe)
Tampa, Florida (USA)
-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Radicke [mailto:mowogmg@pil.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 7:57 PM
To: Michael T.; Peter Belej; Triumphs; Arthur H. Smith
Cc: Triumphs
Subject: Re: Today's Youth &TR's
Well this will be a derivative of the topic...
I drove my TR6 to school today, top down of course, and I
can't tell you how
many comments I got today in school. Genuine interest from
"Today's Youth."
Also, just yesterday in fact, I was told that there is
another student that
drives an MG Midget; this surprised me as I thought I was
the only one which
owned LBCs at school.
Most of the comments were of a "kind" nature, lying in the
spectrum between
"it is so tiny" to "it is so loud" or "what was that cute
car you were
driving?" And then I had to deal with the teasing from the
GreaseMonkey
crowd... which was ignored in standard fashion.
I do agree that there isn't much interest in the High School
/ College crowd
with these automobiles. They would rather drive their
pimped-out Hondas
with earthquake inducing stereo systems. However, the kids
that know what
LBCs are appreciate them and are interested in them. A
friends told me, when
I got my MGB a couple of years ago, that he learned to
drive a stick in an
old MGB. Another friend has two late 60s Mustangs, which I
don't consider
in the same class, but he has the interest in
antique/classic automobiles.
The biggest problem is awareness. Someone will ask you what
you drive and
you reply "an MG" to which they reply "don't you mean GM?"
I wouldn't have
known of these cars unless I was influenced at an early age
by the LBCs of
family members.
Cheers,
--
Kai Radicke -- kai@radiohead.net
1966 MGB -- Icky project car of 3+ years.
1974 Triumph TR6 -- Beautiful daily driver.
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