[TR] Emailing: triumph

[Mark Hooper]

Hi Jerry:

Well, the USA is bordered by a lot of salt water and it didn't seem to
motivate them to rustproof the cars. Back in the 1970s in Quebec it was
common to see holes in a car after 3-4 years. Piling on rust-proofing
tar sort of helped, but the cars were made of some sort of water soluble
steel and soon fell apart no matter what you did. My TR6 was actually
quite resistant compared to other machines in most areas excluding, of
course, the rear wings which were famous for filling with mud and
rusting out.

Cheers,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces+mhooper=digiscreen.ca at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces+mhooper=digiscreen.ca at autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Stasyszen, Jerry
Sent: October 11, 2007 12:32 PM
To: Triumph Mail List
Subject: [TR] Emailing: triumph

It's still a Beemer no matter how they tag it. The Coopers are BMW's,
the Triumph's will also be BMW's just as the MG will be a Chinese car.
These are not and will never be anything like the original British cars.
It might help if they were actually built in GB but then, as rusty as
our cars are do we really want the British to start building cars again?
I mean afterall, you would think that a country surrounded by salt water
would have put some kind of rust prevention into their design.

JaT
Jerry Stasyszen
76 Spitfire