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Re: Triumph Ownership - Rekindled Love

To: Chip19474@aol.com
Subject: Re: Triumph Ownership - Rekindled Love
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:49:51 -0800
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <92fdf4f5.364723cd@aol.com>
Chip19474@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hello Listers,
> 
> This story may be a little corny so I'll understand if you delete now...I
> hesitated sharing it at first but after being on this list for only 3 months,
> I think it'll put a smile on your face!
> 
> After a lonely 20 year dry spell without owning a TR, my biological clock (and
> finances) said the time was right this past summer so I began searching for my
> perfect TR6 - to revisit the great memories I had with my '69....and my '58
> TR3....and my 66 Spitfire...etc.
> 
> Well, I stopped the search because I realized that having it share garage
> space with my truck wouldn't work so I decided to build a detached garage
> where it could reside in comfort with other handsome relics - old tractor
> being one!
> 
> I'm playing the role of general contractor - collecting carpentry IOUs from
> friends whom I've helped with previous projects.  The concrete work was
> finished over the weekend - framing begins this weekend....just in time as
> morning temperatures last week were in the twenties!
> 
> So....with any luck, I'll be back scanning the classifieds after the Holidays
> (not a good time I realize) but I will be ready.  After attending shows over
> the summer, looking at old photos of my LBCs and reading Robson's books and
> "Triumph Sports Cars" by Krause I'm going nuts....
> 
> Oddly enough, my wife really supports all of this (including the
> garage)....maybe it was those old pictures of her (pony tail, tan...) in the
> TR6 down at the Jersey shore with the top down that did it....hmmm - this is a
> good thing!
> 
> Well, if any of you hear of a seller for a TR6 or TR4 in the eastern part of
> PA sometime after January, drop my a line.
> 
> Enjoy the day
> 
> Chip Krout
> (commission number coming soon!)


Have you gone to the mall and sat on "Santa's " knee, it may just work, 
never know.


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