Don't know nuffin 'bout no coffee pot mate!
You are right about the table though. What a memory. What ever else may be
failing you Macartney, in your advancing years, memory is not one of them.
Look forward to seeing you on my next trip over.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Macartney [SMTP:jonmac@ndirect.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:35 PM
> To: Chris Holbrook
> Cc: Friends of Triumph
> Subject:
>
> Chris Holbrook wrote:
> My third TR6 - all 3 were PI - was "Mellow Yellow". Its claim to fame was
> not so much its colour as bringing a coffee table from Alicante, Spain,
> over
> the Pyrennees and to home in Merrie England, perched on the boot rack. The
> only 100mph coffee table that I know, and we still have it with us in here
> USA. Before anyone asks, it came here by boat from France, where we were
> living before we landed here!
>
> Hey, I remember that coffee table when you lived at Breuilpont. If I'm not
> mistaken, it's
> the same one that had the dented coffee pot on it from the shop window
> display. Didn't you
> tell me you were in such a hurry to get away from Alicante, the slipstream
> blew the pot
> off the tabletop. And didn't Griz rush back to fetch it while you kept
> the engine running
> and the clutch disengaged for a quick getaway?
>
> Jonmac
>
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