Here here, Fred! When I was a kid of 17 (over 30 years ago) I bought
a Spitfire, and would have loved to have a groupe of other Spitfire
owners to help me better maintain and enjoy my car.
Mike Ross http://pages.prodigy.net/mikeross/
'66 Spitfire
'70 GT6
'68 Spitfire (body for GT6 convertible project)
'69 GT6 (for project)
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
To: Triumphs@autox.team.net <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: youger owners
>Wow, never thought I would read something like this from Kai, drive
down any
>street, parking lot (especially high schools) and look at whom is
driving
>the cleanest, most spotless car, kids, kids and more kids, with out
kids our
>hobby, our appreciation in values are shot, doomed, the "Triumph"
marquee is
>dead. 4 times in the past 3 years I have given seminars at the local
high
>school on the merits of owning, restoring, and driving antique cars,
I have
>received a great response from the students, teachers and school
boards,
>they all love it, it has great value in promoying our hobby that most
of
>these kids are not aware of, I have flooded Andy M. and other board
members
>about a youth program, it would be just great, for both the kids and
the
>"Old Farts" that think kids are just racing bums, and DPO's, these
kids have
>plenty to offer, not only in desire to be a part of something but to
try and
>make it better, and darn they sure make their cars look better, next
time
>you park in front of the local theatre, bet-ya it's the kids that
give the
>thubs-up for a neat car, and lastly, why do you want to pull up to a
red
>light and race him anyway, he is not there for racing, he's there for
>showing, and no the kids of today are not into "street-rods", they
are into
>being themsilves and having pride in what they have, loud exhaust (we
have
>Monza), and sporty looks. We would all be much better off if we
increased
>every club 10 fold with kids, what a great time. And yes Randall is
correct,
>"A's waited to long to get involved in the youth movement, they
started 5
>years ago, should have been 20. "FT"
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