EPaul21988@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-09-13 09:40:47 EDT, suchak@mediaone.net writes:
>
> << (Who appointed *you* List Monitor anyway?!?) >>
>
> It was Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Company; Jack Ridley, who
> drove the class winning Triumph in the 1935 Monte Carlo Rally; Howe Grahm
> who saved the company after WWII; Sir John Black ,who directed the company
> through Triumph's developmental years; Ken Richardson, who was instrumental
> in developing Triumph as a true sporting marque; Maurice Gatsonides, driver
> for Triumph in the 1954 Mille Miglia; Simo Lampiner, driver of the prototype
> 1296 Spitfire rally car in the 1965 Alpine Rally; and finally Sue Cuff, the
> noted model and television show hostess who appeared in publicity shots in
> 1977 for the Spitfire.
>
> They came as a group. Sue Cuff acted as spokesperson. They gathered around
> me as I sat at my computer terminal checking my mail. In the grey early
> morning light they appeared as they actually were, ghosts and reminders of
> another era. Sue Cuff spoke in a clear, ringing voice as the others nodded
> their heads in affirmation as she spoke . You can imagine my abject terror
> as they pressed in around me here in my small library, surrounded by Triumph
> books and memorabilia. She pointed directly at the computer screen and an
> E-Mail of Cars to Hate which appeared there.
>
> She said to me, 'That is an abomination, besmirching the Triumph list, you
> must act now, for the good of the Marque we all loved. YOU ARE THE MONITOR OF
> THE LIST the entire group spoke as one in a thunderous roar as they pointed
> at me, then vanished into the cold grey morning light as quickly as they
> appeared.
>
> Now I ask you, as one completely rational person to another. What would YOU
> have done in my shoes ? I had to act. I was terrified they would return and
> bring along Walter Belgrove and Donald Healey and Maurice Newham, and
> Mauritz Schulte and maybe even the bloddy elephant that Bettmann posed with
> alongside a Triumph Fifteen in Ceylon in 1926 . How would you like to have
> an elephant in your library? It would surely wake the children. Believe me,
> I was absolutely compelled to become, for this single purpose and occasion
> ONLY, the monitor of the list.
>
> Today in the warm midday sun, with the spectral images of the past now gone,
> I sit at my terminal, uncaring as to the content of the list. Participating
> as the spirit moves me. I hope you understand. I hope you find it possible
> to dig deep in the well of forgiveness and I hope you find more Triumph
> related topics in the future.
>
> Bob Paul
> Corrales NM
> TS71101 L STC 62
> TS 45738 L O
> TS7280 L
Quick! Somebody find that man a couple of Placidils.
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