my mother is quite the contrary. can't drive a shift, and isn't interested.
couldn't tell a camry from a cadillac.
my brother had a tr3, and it was the source of many "issues" due to the
repairs while he was in college.
my mother has said "I don't remember any of the cars you kids drove except
for that damned Triumph."
-----Original Message-----
From: P Caffrey
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:40 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net ; wbeech at flash.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Mom in my TR3
Yes, mine did too....In 1977 my mother and sister drove me to the foothills
of
Sacramento to pick up my newly purchased TR4A. It only took a few days of
having the car that mom wanted to drive it. She did, and drove it
well....When
she got older and couldn't drive anymore, she loved to ride in it.
Pat
--- On Sat, 5/12/12, wbeech at flash.net <wbeech at flash.net> wrote:
From: wbeech at flash.net <wbeech at flash.net>
Subject: [TR] Mom in my TR3
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 11:39 PM
Not sure if many of you have had your mother take off in your newly acquired
Triumph, but mine did. Mom had a practice of 'test driving' every four
wheeled heap I drug home as a teen, I think she secretly was taking it up to
the service station (you remember service stations don't you?) to have the
local guy check it over. I never complained as it always came back with a
full tank of gas.
Later she even co-signed a $300 note at the bank so I could get the
overdrive fixed before I headed off to a new job 100 miles away.
Happy Mother's Day to all the TR loving moms out there!
Bill
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