<< We each enjoy our cars in different ways. >> Well said, Larry... I don't have a dog in this fight, but since we're busy beating up on people who enjoy trailering their show cars, what are we going
Gee, This is beginning to sound a bit like some vintage racers... Bugattis with almost no original parts, Cam Am cars where all 32 of the original twenty or so are still racing or... I could go on...
Well then, I don't want my 71TR6 competing with those 74-76's who have obviously padded their bumpers. -- Sure there's a "participant's choice" competition... Where is it held? Generally at the far s
I'm with you. It also sounds like what some of the wine snobs talk about. Buying a bottle of wine at auction, but never drinking it because it's too valuable. IT'S WINE, fer cryin' out loud! You're s
Phil, car shows are like wine in many ways, I went to the beverage store last week and the man in front of me ordered a case of this and a case of that, I ordered one bottle of "Ripple", he is a "con
Exactly! I know what you mean, but there are always going to be folks who think that the biggest prize should go to the unrestricted class, the unlimited class, the class where the most time and mone
I drive my 250 as much as I can. But on the trip to Wisconsin I trailered it up. Packing for the wife and myself in a 250 can really cramp things. As for the concours cars. I have to admire the peopl
Not really a bad idea at all. Why doesn't VTR do like the Mustang clubs do. Don't quote me here, but, I am pretty sure that there are something like for classes of competition; from daily driver to T
telling if someone is lying, I think it would be rather easy to tell the trailer queens from the drivers.<< Now we open up a whole new can of worms. What constitutes a "driver"? 100 miles per year? 1
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I've been following this thread with interest and would like to toss out one more variable/question: what constitutes modified? I suspect that at " Triumph only" shows, the majority of participants v
has a lot of "enhancements" that would/should keep it from being considered original: Koni & Spax shocks, mohair top, burlwood dash, Grant steering wheel, Hayden Aux Fan, K&N air filters, spin on oil
Tom, I have intentionally NOT voted for particular cars because after talking to their owners determined that their sole purpose for being there was to win and would be extremely upset if they didn't
It really doesn't matter which side of the coin you look at, there are prudes on both sides. On one hand you have the people who spend thousands more on their cars than they ever hope to be able to
Just a guess: you've never been to a meet with Jim Holewka also in attendance, right? Jim's car is driven hundreds (or thousands) of miles to a meet, run hard in moving events, and then cleaned up fo
<< As for telling if someone is lying, I think it would be rather easy to Just a guess: you've never been to a meet with Jim Holewka also in attendance, right? Jim's car is driven hundreds (or thousa
Purely my own opinion follows, Don. Yes, it is reasonable. It's at least as reasonable to judge that car as it would be a TR6 that is restored from the ground up, one that has had every bit of trim a
Don, thats a tough question to answer. I like to see that the stuff is available but if we start telling people those aren't really "true" triumphs then in the long run we're only hurting ourselves.
Hi all, completely show, is snip I saw the infamous TR6 Heritage Body Shell at Gaydon this spring. Granted, I didn't spend as much time looking at it as I wanted to, but from what I saw, it would tak
Hey List Henry Fry mentioned that he thought it would be hard to restore a Heritage bodyshell to a concours standard. I certainly agree. I restored one and there were several shortcomings in the init