> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taffel, Sherman
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:57 PM
> To: 'msecrest@erols.com'
> Cc: 'triumphs@autox.team.net'; 'britishcars@atox.team.net'
> Subject: Blue Ridge Touring
>
> Hi Martin:
>
> Nice story about your Blue Ridge Adventures. Brought back TR and
> Jensen-Healey memories
>
> Once (1970)in my TR4-on its second trip east from Oklahoma, the float
> valve stuck open-as we were being deluged by a torential thunderstorm near
> Natural Bridge. A local couple put me up for the night in their trailer,
> and the next morning with a nail file, we 'deburred' the jet needle where
> it was hanging up. Got me to Baltimore and the old Triumph Dealer 'Berger
> Motors'. Little did I know that 6 years later I'd be teaching a course in
> an old school turned regional HQ around the corner from the Triumph
> dealer.
>
> I have great photo( '76)of an early morning backpacking stove breakfast
> at a Blue Ridge scenic stop, with the Jensen-Healey. I recall using the
> trunk lid as a 'kitchen counter' - set the little stove up on the FDR
> stone ledge. Great view, great ride, Great LBC's.
>
> I had a Jag 4.2 with the 3 SU's after the TR, and your note about power to
> spare also brought a chuckle memory. Aboutten years after I was driving a
> friend up the Washington Monument Hill by the Peabody Conservatory in
> Baltimore. I was in my Honda Accord, and I said-, as I stalled the clutch:
> I don't remember this hill being so steep'. He replied ' In the Jag-it
> wasn't'.
>
> Sherman
>
> Sherman D. Taffel
> TR4 CT40054L
> Columbia, MD
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