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Re: TRF

To: owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net, dezn490@wadnr.gov
Subject: Re: TRF
From: Bob Kramer <rgk@flash.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 01:35:04 -0600

> 
> Dave Eaton said:
> > Let's not go around alienating Spitfire owners.  We've been the
> >red headed step child too long.
> 
> Spitfires and GT6's get absolutely no respect, even from other
> Triumph owners.  I have observed that my GT6 becomes invisible
> when parked next to a red TR6.  Take a look at the asking 
> prices for Spitfires and GT6's compared to other Triumphs.
> Mine is nice enough to win an occasional award at a car show
> and I would be lucky to sell it for 1/3 what it cost me to
> restore it.  Spitfire and GT6 owners unite!  It's time to 
> demand the respect that our unique and beautiful cars deserve!
> Of course TR6's are handsome cars but they are not in the same
> league with the sensuous, flowing lines of a Spitfire.  I 
> remember the day in 1967 when I was strolling through the faculty
> parking lot at Texas Tech and came across the first GT6 in town.
> I stopped dead in my tracks.  I had never driven anything but
> American cars and hadn't given other British cars much more than
> a passing glance but I knew then and there that I had to have one.
> No, the top doesn't go down, but if it did it wouldn't be a GT6.
> Dave Fain
> 1967 GT6
> (resuming lurk mode)


Without getting into the middle of a merits of X vs. Y, or which league a car
is in, I have noticed that nice Spitfires are selling for higher prices than
ever before. 


Bob Kramer,  Austin Texas
Hill Country Triumph Club
3 TR6's, 3 TR250's TR3A vintage racer

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