>>>"Richard Jackson - Network Technician ext. 2570" said:
> A high ranking official in a British Triumph club(no names being mentioned),
> recently said in the club magazine "Triumphs were designed to be driven not
> locked away for posterity"(or words to that effect) he then followed with
> "now the good weathers here I've brought the Vitesse out of storage". A bit
> hypocritical don't you think.
Well, at least he drives it. After reading in Popular Classics, Classic Cars
and so on about laborious restorations on cars that always start "There was a
lot of rot in the body..." and pictures of rusty hulks we Californians would
strip and send to the crusher, I don't blame anyone in the UK for laying up
their cars during the winter.
I abhor the trailer-queens, though, and drive a TR6-Leper myself (header, cam,
electric fool pump and non-standard color) rain and shine.
--berry
P.S. The most amazing one was this fellow who laboriously restored a rusting
'73 Camaro. My question was "why?" but I suppose in the UK they're exotic.
Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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