Geeeeeesh......everyone here needs to lighten up a little bit. It was a
joke....
and the reference wasn't because of a GT6's lack of power. It was because
of said Side curtains and men driving cars with no windows.
GT6....hardtop....windows....GET IT.
hahahahaahaha
Aaron (TR6 with no windscreen...well that little lexan strip might count)
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Michael Thompson wrote:
>
> Coming out of the corner with gloves up,
>
> Maybe I should clarify the girly car issue. (I don't know why I catch the
> crap for these things)
> Earlier I was commenting on the sidecurtain question and said the TR3 did
> not keep you quite out of the elements and that now I forget to use the
> heater and AC in my modern machines. Then I said "that's what happens when
> manly men drive manly cars". Then Aaron Johnson posted something like "manly
> car?, this is coming from a guy that drives the girliest Triumph of them
> all. (with an arrow pointing at the GT6 in my signature line)
> What I wrote was a come back to that statement. I guess what caught
> everyones attention is when I changed the subject line from "Incompatable"
> to "girly car".
> I bought my wife the GT6 because I thought it was a faster car than the
> Spitfire. (sorry, now I can piss off another Triumph group) Besides it kinda
> looks like one of my favorites the E-type.
> And to Arthur Smith, I tried to get the head off the old six for a rebuild
> for 2 months after it dropped a valve seat. I needed the car for
> transportation as my daily work car so I dropped the IROC TPI V-8 in and
> have been happy since. More power and 21 mpg. The 6 was overworked IMHO in
> that heavy sedan. Slow and thirsty 14 mpg.
> So if you feel the need to flame someone about the GT6 being girly, take up
> the issue with Aaron.
>
> Geeeeze,
>
> Mike Thompson
> All my bitch'n rides
> 59 TR3
> 73 GT6
> 78 IROC XJ6L
>
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