Well...
I finally got my street TR3 out this weekend. She languished most of last
year with a battery problem, an Optima no less, so I called the shop where I
purchased it and they swapped it for a new one, very cool. Popped it in on
Saturday and took an exploritory first drive. All was good.
So..
This morning I awoke early and drove the TR3 12 miles to my habitual Sunday
breakfast spot. After an old fashioned way too big American breakfast, I set
out from Perrysburg Ohio along the Maumee River to Defiance Ohio. A beautiful
twisty drive on state and county roads. the morning chill warded off by my
inordinate caloric intake and my A2 flight jacket. ( I never put the top up.)
What a sweet car the TR3 is. A real car. One you have to drive, not just
operate. Everything from the concise instruments to the delicate drift of the
tail through a sweeper, to the intake bark of the Weber carbs brings you back
to what driving is all about. Only a motorcycle is a more visceral experience
than this.
I come up on a rubber bumper MGB (why on earth did they keep making those
things?) that is taking it's good time, I casaually move the fingers of my
left hand to the OD switch, drop down to normal and let 2185cc's do the
talking. The hapless MG becomes a spec in my mirrors.
And so it went for just over 100 miles.
Life is good.
Terry Stetler
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