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Re: British Car Week

To: "Musson, Carl" <musson@chekhov.arts.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: British Car Week
From: George Richardson <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:14:23 -0400
Cc: "'TR-List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Organization: Merlin Group Inc.
References: <493E691D2E45D3119D640090277AF2B751BD02@chekhov.arts.usf.edu>
Yeah. I'm not going to tell him either, although when he starts driving
the TR6....

"Musson, Carl" wrote:
> 
> It is probably good for George that he "thought"...  Shudder to think what
> the SO would have thought if it got back that George was tooling around town
> with a "stacked blond of 17" - and you can bet your sweet..  that someone
> would have seen them and felt compelled to call home....
> 
> Of course, his 16 year old son might have thought differently.....  (you do
> have a son don't you George?)
> 
> Carl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Mark the Shark [SMTP:markie@gte.net]
> Sent:   Friday, May 26, 2000 2:06 PM
> To:     George Richardson; Douglas Frank
> Cc:     Triumphs
> Subject:        Re: British Car Week
> 
> Now wait...you said "I don't think so"?
> 
> Mark Ascherl
> 1981 TR8 DHC FI
> Raleigh, NC
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Richardson" <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
> To: "Douglas Frank" <frank@zk3.dec.com>
> Cc: "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: British Car Week
> 
> >
> > I know the feeling. Yesterday at a light in the TR3 a stacked blond
> > about 17 runs up and starts asking questions about the car, terminated
> > by "Can I go for a ride?". Sorry, I don't think so. Argh. When I was 25
> > she would never have asked. Probably wouldn't have asked if I was 25 now
> > either.
> >
> > Douglas Frank wrote:
> >
> > > "Paul g. Wiegman" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > why we drive these things?  (Other than pulling into a packed ice
> > > > cream stand and getting everyone in line to look at you.)
> > >
> > > Me, pushing 50, in a GT6...  High school girls: stares, "Kewl!"
> > >
> > > ..
> > >
> > > Me, 30 years ago, in a GT6...  High school girls: oblivious
> > >
> > > damn.      damn, damn, damn.
> > > --
> > > Douglas Frank Compaq Computer Corp.  Helpmate, n.
> > > ZKO           110 Spit Brook Rd.     A wife, or bitter half.
> > > 603-884-0501  Nashua, NH USA 03062
> >

-- 
George Richardson
Wyvern - '57 Triumph TR3, TS15559LT -
http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
Griffin - '71 Triumph Stag - undergoing restoration
Pikachu - '75 Triumph TR6 - undergoing repair
Kitty - '83 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas - Daily Driver

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