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Re: [TR] What cost to give up your Triumph? (Rhetorical?)

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Subject: Re: [TR] What cost to give up your Triumph? (Rhetorical?)
From: "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:25:46 -0700
On 6/24/10 2:53 PM, John Macartney wrote:
> I guess this might seem a stupid question to ask of people in a part of the
> world where fuel is so cheap - but is it safe to assume it will always be so?
> Earlier this week, I had a long talk with an old friend I've known for more
> than 40 years who has been the besotted owner for at least 30 of those years
> of a 1930 Speed Six Bentley. Okay, that in itself is a car from the collector
> stratosphere - but I was both amazed and shocked to learn he now has the car
> up for sale. By his own admission, it's not that he has tired of it, come to
> be less interested in it - or even that he can't afford to run it.
>    

Come the time I can not afford fuel from my TR3, I'll be looking for an 
engine swap.  Likely a small fuel efficient turbo diesel to pop into the 3.

Teriann

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