Well the beautiful and dangerous Helena really did it last night. Rear ended
some full sized American Iron with the TR-6. Ohhhhhhh the Paaaiiin! H is
uninjured but deep in the BAD DOG house. She will have to put this on one of
her credit cards and will be paying it off for months if not years. Serves
her right for tailgating. From now on I guess I'll add collision to my
insurance on the TR. But my baby looks pitiful. I had just completed a year
long restoration project last summer and to see her like this hurts me
deeply. Preliminarily looking at new left front fender and front valence
along with full headlight assembly. Bumper has minor scuffing... should be
able to polish out also broken mount bracket on bumper left fender mount
point...a spot weld will work here...grill ok. Hood bent at left front but
straighting won't be a problem. whole front end likely to require new
paint. Fender and valence on order from Moss which has both in stock. Stock
valence however carries a warning that it will have to have some work done
to fit correctly. Anybody out there have any experience as to just what kind
of work might be entailed? GOOD body shop has the car... will charge me for
parts only Moss's dealer charge and $50.00/hr for labor. Couple of weeks and
a couple of thou total for completion. This is the first time in 20 years
anyone has touched this car body besides me. Anybody have a complete
headlight in good condition lying around?
Painfully Deano
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Storm: International Racing car driver
[mailto:hiu06f@bangor.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:27 PM
To: rtriplett@bjservices.com
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Non LBC Tele question
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 rtriplett@bjservices.com wrote:
>
> Back in the seventies, there was a comedy series on PBS (from England)
about an
> Dilbert-like account fellow who worked for a (I think) cookie factory.
Sounds like The rise and fall of Reginald Perrin (or vice-versa).
Not just a 'cookie' company, made all sorts of desserts!
Reggie had a duff boss 'CJ' who 'didn't get where he was today' by a
variety of improbable events. reggie was always late and had an excuse
about the train being late. He always fancied his secretary and the
company Doctor was even worse than his boss. reggie would be helping him
with his problems! Reggie went on to fake his death, return as a poorly
disguised chap to take his old job/wife back. he later came clean and
decided to make a company so useless it would fail. His 'grot' chain
flourished and both he and his wife faked their deaths?
He also had a brother in law who was bone idle useless but tried to
start up a secret army.........:-)
Johnny '70 Viterald
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