TeriAnn,
Good points all, but you have seen my '58 TR3. Very close to a 100 pt car
and as original as I could make it. Trailered only once, from Riverside, CA
when I blew a head gasket on the way from Phoenix to Triumphest last year!
Driven from San Francisco to Portland, VTR (with you!); Vancouver, BC, ATDI;
San Diego, Triumphest; and from Phoenix to Laughlin, Triumphest; and Lake
Tahoe, Triumphest; etc. etc.
I have put way over 10K miles on the car since restoration and last weekend
it again took a 1st in Class at the MG Car Club's British Car Meet here in
Scottsdale!
Still looks great and drives like new! It's For Sale too!!
Jim
Jim Bauder
'58 TR3 (For Sale!)
'68 TR250 (New Project!)
Scottsdale, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net]On Behalf Of TeriAnn Wakeman
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:12 AM
To: TR
Subject: Re: hardwood floors in my tr3?
> If we didn't personalize our cars they'd all look the same and be,
> well, rather
> dull. At car shows I bypass the "original" cars and gravitate to the
> modified
> versions to figure out what they did. Anyone can have (buy) an
> original car!
Ah, you would walk right past my TR3 then if the bonnet were down.
Then comes another saying, anyone can rebuild a car and have it end up
modified from original. That's easy to do. But it takes a lot of
careful work and attention to detail to rebuild a car and have it
appear like it was just delivered from the factory.
When it comes to people's choice voting, my vote always goes for the
daily driver whose owner actually puts miles and miles on them but
keeps it properly maintained. The 100 point concourse trailer queen
never gets my vote for people's choice. I believe Triumphs fall into
the category of car that are meant to be a dynamic display and not a
static display.
T. J. Wakeman
1960 Land Rover 109 Dormobile owned since 1978
1961 Triumph TR3A owned since 1986, the new car
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