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Re: The Philosophy of Originality

To: <greenman62@hotmail.com>, <spitlist@gte.net>, <75trsix@snet.net>
Subject: Re: The Philosophy of Originality
From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:45:58 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <20000210211651.97096.qmail@hotmail.com>
Greg, what you say is correct, and very well thought out, (I think), just
one correction, these people that do not get a use/enjoyment out of their
car, do not own a car, the car owns them. "FT"
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>
> >From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
> >Reply-To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
> >To: Bob Danielson <75trsix@snet.net>
> >CC: triumphs@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: The Philosophy of Originality
> >Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:05:38 -0700
> >
> >If you won't Bob, I will!
> >
> >Panasport, Minilite and their replicas are not "Modern" wheels.  The
> >style is period and many of the cars rolled off the showroom floor with
> >these style wheels installed by the dealers.  So for all practical
> >purposes the wheels should not detract from the "originality" of the
> >vehicle.
> >
> >Now if You see a TR3 running around with 12" wide rims that stick out 2
> >feet from the fenders and sport foot wide 50 series tires, that might be
> >cause for alarm!  :)
> >
> >Joe
>
>     Yeah, your right... Unless it looked REEEEEEEEEELLLLLLYYY cool;*)
>
>     My personal caveat here would be the execution.
>
>     Hell, I've seen over-restored cars that looked tarty. If whatever
>     mods have been made were done with a thought to the soul of the
>     car, and well executed allowing the owner a fuller enjoyment of
>     is TR (read: drive it more)...I say why not? How many "restored"
>     TRs languish in garages, get trailered to events and are hardly
>     ever driven? Which is the worst crime? I'm not throwing stones at
>     these people. I just think they miss the point of owning a car.
>     They may as well collect paperweights.
>
>     Now, where's my nomex nightie?
>
> Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois       1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
>
> That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
>
>
>


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