Gary Anderson was doing a Q&A for some magazine and had to answer the
question " should I buy this TR6, or a Miata?" Since I own a Triumph, he
thought I might have some insight, but what I told him was something like,
"if you want a car to drive because you have to go some place, get a Miata.
If you are looking for a car because you want to go out and drive, get the
Triumph." He said he quoted me, so maybe it means something.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill & Skip Pugh" <anabil@caltel.com>
To: "Don Malling" <dmallin@attglobal.net>; "Triumph list"
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Bought A New Sports Car on the Dark Side
> My daughter bought a 1990 Miata ... and at that time she worried
> about it's "practicality" ... My sage fatherly advice to her was ...
> "every young girl needs at least one red roadster in her lifetime"
> ... she bought it and still drives it today, whenever she is not
> driving her Camry with the baby car seat in the back. I drove the
> Miata a few times and it brought back pleasant memories, but it was
> so Civilized!! Everything worked ... it handled great, the shift
> throws were short and precise, you could put up the top with one
> hand while sitting in the drivers seat ... yet it missed something
> ... it had no soul ...
>
> A few years later we found and purchased Casper (1957 TR3), and it
> too brought back memories, memories of our first 1957 TR3 that was
> our only car. The one we drove from Biloxi, Mississippi to San
> Francisco, California, via Kansas City, Missouri. You see we did
> not know we couldn't do that, and it was our only car. The current
> Casper brings back waves of nostalgia, and as some clever editor
> once wrote, "when you turn the Key, press the Starter, it does not
> just start ... it comes Alive!!! " Now that is Soul ...
>
> >Yes, it just depends on where you want to go.
> >
> >My TR250 takes me back to 1968 when I drove it off the show room
> >floor. No other car can get from here to 1968.
> >
> >Don Malling
> >
> >TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
> >>
> >>It all depends upon how you face life and what you are looking for.
>
>
> --
> Bill Pugh
> 1957 TR3 TS16765L
> aka
> Casper
> 1971 TR6 CC59179L
> aka
> Rosey
> Wallace, CA
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