When I drive my TR6 to school my student say: "that thing sure has fat tires on
it." or the other statement I hear is "Mr. Slaton will that car really go 140?"
My usual responce is, "I'm not sure, at 135 is has a slight vibration and I'm a
little unsure about going the extra mph."
I smile, wink, and say "yah having the top down makes a differance also"
Jeff Slaton
TS6774 TR2
CF12525 TR6
Musson, Carl wrote:
> 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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