Robert M. Lang wrote:
>
> Liseters,
>
> Seeing the posting from a week or two ago reminds me of how owning a
> Triumph has transformed my life.
>
> You see, I was a wee lad when Dad brought that first Triumph home - I'd
> never heard of a TR6 - I had heard of a TR4, and I was able to deduce that
> a TR6 must have six cylinders and that I really really really wanted to put
> a 327 in one and change the little tail marknings to TR8... little did I
> know that the "boys in Coventry" had the same idea (and a few more folks
> besides them!)
>
> But, it was love at first site. Ironically, that TR6, a '71 arrived
> literally at the same time the love of my life was to move away to a town
> about twenty miles away. In the last weeks that she was around (before the
> move) she and I would sit in the TR6 in the driveway and talk about what it
> would be like when we both got our drivers' licenses - I promised that I'd
> pick her up in the TR6 and we could go for long drives with the top down.
>
> That was not to be, however - that's how it is when you are young - lots of
> dreams. Then reality set in. I didn't get my license for another year or
> so, and in the meantime, the young lass found that she was quite popular in
> the new school...
>
> So, I spent the next 5 years or so polishing the TR6 - 'till it went away,
> it was replaced by CF 14111U. I used to polish that car even more than the
> older car and I was deeply saddened that Dad would trade in the '71 for the
> '74 for $1500 - I actually had the money to pay him $1500 at the time. I
> think he knew this was the case - even though I never told him - and when
> he passed on, it was his express desire that CF14111U be handed down to me.
>
> The car sat in the garage for about 6 years because I was newly married,
> and every time I discussed spending money on my little "dream machine", my
> then-wife would indicate other issues were more important - thus the car
> languished, unused.
>
> Finally, I had collected the parts and the desire to get the car going
> again. The mitigating factor was that the car was located in a garage at my
> mother's house, and her new husband (a car guy) wanted to utilize the
> garage for his own car things... so, in very short order, the car was made
> roadworthy and moved to my house.
>
> For the next several years, I had all kinds of fun driving the car as much
> as 10,000 miles a year - to work, to the store... I would volunteer to go
> to the store several times a day - just so I could drive the TR6. I hooked
> up with some local car clubs, and then I started driving all over the place
> - Nova Scotia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania - you name it.
>
> After a while, the wife started balking at going for long TR trips... it
> was on one of those trips that she indicated her desire to end our
> relationship.
>
> So now I still have the TR6 but all the relationships have gone out the
> window... hmmmm. What's up with that? In fact, I've started building
> another TR6. I must be a realy glutton, eh?
>
> I don't even know why I wrote this.
>
> Have a nice day!!!
>
> And drive your Triumph!!!!!
>
> Bob Lang
> TR6's
Bob ... great story. But please, in the future, check with the list
gendarme before you send out stuff like this.
--
Martin Secrest
73 GT6
74 Spitfire
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