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Subject: TR6 Question rev.a- Long
From: Jeff M <cajunairman@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 08:30:59 -0700 (PDT)
I received some responses to my initial contact with
the list.  Most stated that I was not thorough enough
on which way to go with the TR6 I have exclusive
access to.  I'll try to fill any voids with the
following.

At the age of 4, In my neighborhood, I was able to
pedal my Road runner car faster than any kid could
pedal a bike, period.  I have been hung on speed since
then.  The more the better.  I have exceeded the speed
of sound.  I regularly race a shifter kart that tops
out at 115mph.  I have owned cars that made passengers
throw up.  I've been over 170mph in many cars on and
off the track.  I installed headers on a 76 Trans-Am
at age 11.  I drew pictures of Jeeps so often that my
mom threw 90% of them away(I still have the other 10%)
 I actually loved my first car, a 79 LTD 2d Puke Green
with a 302(I should have been checked out mentally at
that time).  I think a Vintage Postal Jeep is cool, as
is the fact that a Toyota U-haul truck will wax a Ford
Aspire in a drag race.(Proved on a highway in
Orlando).  I have an 80 CJ-7 that has embarrassed
every import it's ever met at a traffic light.  It's
even more competent on trails.  I have a 99 M3 that
obeys every input like a hunting Labrador.  I've gone
8.50's @over 160 in the quarter.  I am a graduate of
Skip Barber, Roy Hill, and others.  I drive cars
because they put a smile on my face, not because they
are practical.  If I found a good deal on a 6wd Troop
Carrier with the rag top, I'd own it.  Every motorized
vehicle is beautiful in one way or another.

Fast forward, and skipping a lot of other memoirs, I
focus on a certain TR6 sitting in storage waiting to
see light again.  The third to last TR6 made.  I'll
verify this next week when I go take a GOOD look at
it.  Many asked if I'd be willing to do some or most
of the work on it?  It would be a year before I had a
place worthy of taking it apart to redo it.  I have
restored/rebuilt 5 cars in my 35 years of living.  I
have more money than time so spending 15-20K to
restore the third to last TR6 to me would be worth
looking into.  If I could even help the owner find a
new home for it, that would help me.  I rode in four
Triumphs growing up, one Spitfire and 3 TR6's.  I
loved the exhaust note. I loved how my high school
buddy that owned one couldn't break the drive train as
hard as he tried to. But I was a V8 nut back then. 
Things changed when I got my M3.  Sixes are sexual
noise to my ear.  It just sounds right.  I can easily
imagine my wife and I driving off to nowhere with a
picnic basket on the back of the TR6 to a secluded
place for lunch.  With all this said, if the car is
not condemned with rust, I'll probably save it.  Not
because I'm a TR6 fanatic, but because I'm just a
fanatic, period.

Jeff







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