I've often wondered how/when I got bitten by the Triumph "bug". It
couldn't have been from my father, though learning to rebuild tractor
engines _was_ a help. I had a neighbor with an MGA and later an E-type,
but that wasn't what go me wanting a Triumph.
I _think_ it all started with a Cheerios box and corresponding TV
commercial, showing a TR3 and an MGA racing. A small model (red or
blue, perhaps) would be in the box. I like to think the TR3 was leading
the MG in the commercial. Or perhaps the TR was what I found in the
first box.
Does anyone else remember this, or am I imagining this? I was just a
wee lad at the time.
Keith Edwards
Suffolk, VA
kedwards@norfolk.infi.net
http://members.tripod.com/~Keith_Edwards/
'67 TR4A since 1973
'62 TR3B since 1978
2 more TRs, a Healey, a princess
various other whole and "fractional" cars
Rodney Orr wrote:
>
> It was 1968-9 and there was a brg TR250 often parked near where I caught
> the bus to high school. This was the pony car era but I was never
> interested - from that time on I was hooked on TRs. I've got a picture
> over my desk of me in a '72 TR6 that a friend took at a new car show, but
> it wasn't until 1993 when I was old enough for a mid-life crisis that I
> finally got my own TR6 (which was built when I was 18).
> Rod '70 TR6 CC55899L
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