Hi Steven:
Since I love Bizarro I'm responding to your e-mail instead of the many telling
me that I've clearly had my eyes closed the past year or two.
$100+K -> "Eeeek!"
That's about all I can say. There seem to be a couple around here. The one
downstairs is sitting between the 355 Spider and the new Aston Martin. I
should have guessed.
But on the positive side, I parked the TR6 next to them last week and nobody
looked at me funny. It goes to show; if you buy a Walmart watch and bury it
for a thousand years you have a treasure. It only seems to have taken 33 years
for the Triumph!
So perhaps if I bury myself for a thousand years, somebody will revive me and
think it's a good deal. Hmmm, I seem to have seen a cartoon about that
somewhere...
Cheers,
Mark
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From: Steven Newell [mailto:steven@newellboys.com]
Sent: Mon 01/08/2005 7:46 PM
To: Mark Hooper; triumphs
Subject: Re: Little Bavarian Car?
Mark Hooper wrote:
>We have some interesting looking cars in the parking garage downstairs at the
office. I note that a very cute roadster has been parking there recently. I
looked closer and saw it is a BMW Z8. I've seen lots of Z3s and a few of the
new Z4s but what is a Z8? It looks very nice for sure.
>
I live quite a few streets past a neighborhood that is home to some of
Denver's professional athletes and other folks with extra money to use
up. Back when I commuted downtown, I'd sometimes see a black over red Z8
pulling out of that neighborhood. It was nice to see the driver turn to
watch my black over red TR4 go by -- while I was twisting to look over
his car. Heck, If I had the extra $100,000, I'm sure I would ...
probably buy five more TR4's and build a three level garage.
The Z8 is a sweet tribute to the classic 507. I'd like to think it's the
sort of sophisticated retro design BMW will use when it revives the
Triumph brand with a new sub-$20K TR in a few years.*
Steven Newell
Littleton, CO USA
'62 TR4 x 2
*which you might see if you live in bizarro world. ;)
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