Congratulations Bob & Nancy, Great to here you are still plugging away at
the 3, and that the final phase is near!! Perhaps I will be able to seeyou
guys at the vintage races.
TRiumphantly, Mark
Mark Joslyn, 1406 Winding Lane Champaign, Illinois 61820........
217-359-6792
VTR Midwest Chapter Coordinator / Central Illinois TRiumph Owners
Association
49 2000 roadster, 59 TR3a, 62,63,64 TR SPORTS 6, 62,63 TR4, 63 TR FOR-D (302
COBRA)
73 TR6, 74 TVR, 80 MGB-LE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy and Bob Wise" <wises@new.rr.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:26 PM
Subject: Sixteen years
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> I think you all will appreciate this. I'm 46 years old. My dad and
> I have been in and out of LBCs for years, although we have lived far
> apart since I graduated from high school in 1973. Sixteen years ago,
> my parents bought me a 1961 TR3A project car as a Ph.D graduation
> gift (it's what I asked for). I have fiddled with it slowly for over
> a decade and a half, spending lots of time and way too much money on
> the restoration. After a body-off restoration and totally rebuilding
> every component on the car, he and I cranked it up yesterday.
>
> It runs. It actually runs. For the first time since 1986, it runs.
> We still have to attend to little details like front end alignment,
> license plates, seat belts, and insurance but, by the gods, it runs.
>
> We are hoping to drive it to the vintage races at Road America in
> late July (only about 1.5 hours away).
>
> It was pretty cool to have him there when it first fired up.
>
> Bob
> Appleton, Wisconsin
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