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1. Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:59:06 +0100; Wow! I recant my nomination of the Merc. 450SL as the droptop that's never seen with the topdown. My new nominee? The Mazda Miata! Let me explain. Today, we finally got a spectacular spring afternoon; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00632.html (8,181 bytes)
2. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: 12 May 1997 13:37:57 -0400; The explanation is simple...you have a real sports car! They don't build such a thing in Japan...and only barely on the continent. BTW, what did you mean "If the sun is bright, the top is outta sight; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00678.html (10,562 bytes)
3. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: 12 May 1997 13:38:18 -0400; The explanation is simple...you have a real sports car! They don't build such a thing in Japan...and only barely on the continent. BTW, what did you mean "If the sun is bright, the top is outta sight; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00679.html (10,629 bytes)
4. RE: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:23:28 -0600; I gotta agree with the second point, namely, the only time the roof was on my car when I used to drive it regularly was when: a) it was raining, and b) the car was standing still. The sunny-day-only; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00681.html (10,441 bytes)
5. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:43:45 -0700; there are few pleasures as sweet as giving some Miata owner an indignant cold shoulder when he waves when we pass, or pulling up beside one and giving her just enough throttle, so that the Monza exha; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00695.html (8,569 bytes)
6. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:13:39 -0400 (EDT); From my limited experience it seems that the 'Sportscar' owners (those that speak Japanese, German, Italian..) in my area look on me as the 'Phony' or at least lacking in good judgment! The advice th; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00725.html (9,234 bytes)
7. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:07:39 -0600; Careful now -- a lot of us own our TR's because we had one when they were new, or wish we'd had one then. That Miata owner is just a couple of decades late to the same party we're at -- and will prob; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00731.html (8,618 bytes)
8. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 21:45:27 -0400; Hmm. If the criteria is top downness, I'd have to nominate the BMW M-3. I'm sure the top can go down, they do advertise it as a convertable. But I've never seen one on the road with the top down, or; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg00984.html (7,888 bytes)
9. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:51:05 +0100; OK! the gloves are off! Took the TR6 to a nice cruise night in Cheapchet, RI (Hey, Mulder and Sculley were there last week!) 65 d.f. and real nice. Passed 3 Miata's, you guessed it, with the tops up!; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01013.html (8,261 bytes)
10. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:50:50 -0400 (EDT); nolan, et al,: down in w. central, i've seen a good number of bmw m 3s with lid down...only 1 miata in said configuration.must be the humidity. dick 48 mgtc 62 tr3b "if it aint steel, it aint real"; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01019.html (8,452 bytes)
11. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 17:10:15 +0100 (BST); I've seen a top down M3 and it looks like an aircraft carrier! How Be-em managed to clinicly style something to such a level of monotony is unbeleivable! And as for the Z3, those and miatas/mx5s are; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01024.html (8,857 bytes)
12. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:31:43 -0700; Doh! Ment to say Z3, not M3. Z3's lines just don't work for me. All bulbus and silly looking and bulgy and louvered up front, with a scrawny arse end. Might look interesting with the top down, but I; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01050.html (9,446 bytes)
13. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:29:29 -0400 (EDT); you're on the button. only give a 50 s wave to other brit cars..the nip-mobile and adolphs revenge are tooo simulated. i drive with top down except during florida deluges. when its cold, on comes th; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01053.html (7,927 bytes)
14. RE: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 12:09:08 -0700; And Dicky Fontaine wins the 1997 Politically Correct award..... Damian - 73 TR6 johnny: you're on the button. only give a 50 s wave to other brit cars..the nip-mobile and adolphs revenge are tooo sim; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01058.html (7,722 bytes)
15. Re: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 19:42:48 -0400; Hello Nolan, you said it best : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Keep in mind that the Miata owner who you give the `cold shoulder' to when he waves, is still a potential Triumph owne; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01078.html (8,579 bytes)
16. RE: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 20:08:08 -0400 (EDT); as elvis used to say: "thank you, thank you very much" i've never been accused of being politically correct...what the captain really meant to say was........ dick 48 mgtc 62 tr3b remember, we won.; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01079.html (8,031 bytes)
17. Re[2]: Phony Sportscar! (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: 19 May 1997 08:48:47 -0400; I've seen one (with the top down), but (drat) it was moving away in front of me (though I was hitting 5800 rpm and rubber in each of the TR-6's gears) so fast I couldn't tell if it's air conditioning; /html/triumphs/1997-05/msg01171.html (9,636 bytes)

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