On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 erl@unix.mail.virginia.edu wrote:
> Big question is, will a BMW-built TR, be a TR? Just the name doesn't
> make it a Triumph!
Actually, it rather does. After all, "Triumph" after World War II was
little more than a nameplate bought by Sir John Black and the Standard
Motor Company. Pretty much all the postwar Triumphs shared with their
prewar namesakes was the name.
Similarly, about the only major component still available in some form or
other from the last "real" :-) Triumphs would be the aluminum V-8 (oops!
Made by Rover).
--Andy
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