Perhaps we're just asking too much. Sure the 20 yo's chicks were waving at
our cars 20-30 years ago and it's the same chicks that are waving at our
cars today. We have all just aged gracefully together. Girls today seem
more impressed with the mall.
Mark Ascherl
1981 TR8 DHC FI
Raleigh, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: <Chip19474@aol.com>
To: <markie@gte.net>; <slantws@home.com>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: New!!Sports Cars
> In a message dated 00-05-15 23:33:11 EDT, markie@gte.net writes:
>
> << I also didn't like the fact that a very lovely
> blonde was getting in next to him. How come my TR8 doesn't attract
blondes
> like that? Do you think it's me or the car? God I hope my SO doesn't
read
> this! >>
>
> Mark,
>
> This will probably get a chuckle from a few readers.....I seem to notice
that
> when I'm in my Spitfire, I get more thumbs up and "cool car" shouts from
> younger (teenage) boys & girls and smiles from older (50 ish)
women....case
> in point - last weekend on the way to a photo shoot - while driving thru a
> small town, lots of teenage boys & girls waved, etc...the weekend before
just
> after I parked at a diner for a club breakfast, a 50ish woman walked
briskly
> over to the Spit and struck up a conversation - she had a signal red '70
Mk3
> new!!
>
> Now...all you TR3 guys take note...while driving a signal red TR3A with
> chrome wires past a local community college last summer....the female
college
> population went bonkers....and it wasn't me they were looking at, that's
for
> sure!
>
> Last Saturday, while at a club gathering at a park, two 20-something girls
on
> bikes road over to where we had parked 5 TR3s and my Spit and asked if we
> ever heard of a TR4!! One girl's dad had one and she remembered riding in
it
> as a little girl but not what it looked like. Since the TR6 is still in
> pieces, I can't provide any "glance appeal" data on that model and for a
> TR8....geeez, I just don't know the answer.
>
> I remember reading about a demographic buyer's study that I think Standard
> Triumph did years ago but that was focused on buyers not admirers. I
suppose
> that if many of the "buyers" are now "admirers", the glances and thumbs up
we
> get from our LBCs could be somehow predicted.....in the end, it doesn't
> really matter who waves at you....these little cars evoke fond memories
for a
> lot of people and I'm glad to part of it......
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chip Krout
> '76 TR6 CF57822U (restoration underway)
> '70 Spit Mk3 FDU78512L (getting better with each drive)
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