On 19 Mar 1997, Peter Mchugh wrote:
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> I'd bet that had you been around at the appropriate time, you'd have
> been one of those "renegade groups"!!!
Are you saying that I would have been a dead cert for transportation
or a friend of the pilgrim fathers???:-)
I mean you do drive a
> Spit....question is...would we have wanted you????
I don't see why not!! I'm a bit of a whizz with a wok now!
Does nobody love me??
Reminds me of an interaction I once had with a customs agent at
> Mildenhall...I mistakenly commented that I was having trouble with his
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Errrr.....quite!!
Johnny Storm
'77 Spitfire 1500
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> Subject: Re: TRF
> Author: hiu06f@bangor.ac.uk at Internet
> Date: 3/19/97 8:37 AM
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> On 19 Mar 1997, Peter Mchugh wrote:
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> Couldn't have been said any better...you Brits have such a way with
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> Years of practice have led to it's near perfection, despite renegade
> groups attempting to pervert it's development!!:-)
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> Let's all let Charles run TRF and Coventry Inn...and when appropriate,
> > buy parts we need!
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> What, can you be serious! Let the man spend his own money as he sees fit!?
> It's our god given right that he has to put all his money into developing
> car parts. Isn't it in the constitution, something about 'the right to
> bear (radius) arms?
> How dare he think that he can just do what he wants
> with his own capital! :-)
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> Bloody hell fire, he'll be buying clothes for himself
> and his family next rather than re-casting a concours quality
> TR3 gimcrick shim alignment nut! This cannot be allowed!:-)
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> Johnny Storm
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> > Subject: TRF
> > Author: turner@public.se at Internet
> > Date: 3/19/97 3:15 AM
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> > Nice that Mr. TRF has been so candid about his state of affairs but I
> > can't see what he's got to gain by it. I know that if my clients started
> > believing my company was in any kind of financial difficulties, the
> > first thing they'd start doing would be pestering me to reduce prices,
> > offer better terms, discounts, etc. etc.- I know that sounds harsh, but
> > it is human nature. Frankly, I wouldn't be so open about my business
> > which is, well, my business.
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> > Reading some of these messages, it looks like folks are trying to tell
> > Mr. TRF how to run his shop and his pub. Well, I don't know about you
> > yanks, but for we Brits, that's off limits - anybody who tells me how to
> > run my business usually receives a curt invitation to Foxtrot Oscar,
> > which as you may know, is English for "go forth and multiply"
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> > Adam Turner
> > '74 TR6
> > '67 Saab 96
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