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Re: Everyone has owned a Spitfire.

To: Andre Rousseau <andrer@mac.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Everyone has owned a Spitfire.
From: Douglas Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:01:42 -0500
My brother lives in Cumberland, a bit east of Ottawa.  The last time
I visited him, he showed me a green TR8 that was for sale,
parked at a local gas station.

If it were not for the potential hassle of importing it, I might have made an
offer on it.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

At 10:45 PM 12/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Tonight while at my wife's office party.
>I was talking to the director of her division in the federal government,
>somehow we got on the topic of my GT6 restoration. He says yes I know what a
>GT6 is my wife owns a red 1970 Spitfire which has not run in the past 5-7
>years. They bought the car back 1977, but a few years ago it develop a bad
>electrical problem. I pull out the Ottawa Valley Triumph Club business card
>wrote down my email address and said a Spitfire that9s not running my god we
>must deal with this. Turns out on the street he lives on there is also
>another white spit and a blue TR6.
>
>All the time my poor wife is shaking her head.
>Like I said everyone has owned a Triumph one time or another in their life.

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