Philip Haldeman wrote:
> Last week, I saw a '52 Plymouth . . . But it had "mag" wheels . . .
> [and] it had a chrome, drilled steering wheel . . . This was a
> travesty of a '51 Plymouth that someone (a "kid" or child-like adult?)
> had gotten his hands on in order to imitate a 1950s kind of thing.
A '52 Plymouth would indeed be "a travesty of a '51 Plymouth", no matter
who'd gotten their hands on it.
But an early fifties Plymouth with "mag" wheels and a chrome, drilled
steering wheel would look like every early fifties Plymouth I ever saw in my
high school parking lot (in the late fifties): unrestored, original
interior, and all the chrome "accessories" that you could buy when you had
an allowance rather than a job.
> Since buying my '72 TR6 many months ago, I've kept (and am
> planning to keep) it as original- looking as possible . . . my feeling is
> that at a certain point the car is no longer a "genuine" '72 TR6.
You'd love mine . . . a combination of '69, '73 and '74 parts. But it's
built of the "best" parts from each year. :-)
> whoever owns that car is not a designer, and when the
> factory hired a designer, they hired someone who understood
> pattern and style.
This IS the Triumph list, isn't it?
Jim Hill
Madison WI
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