[TR] TR3 sighting on Masterpiece Theater

[oliver]

was it a 3 or 3a? door handles were available on the 3 as an upgrade; like a 
rally kit or something which included a hard top???

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dave1massey at cs.com>
To: <Triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 sighting on Masterpiece Theater


> In a message dated 7/20/2009 12:49:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> wbeech at flash.net writes:
>> Masterpiece theater tonight was a "Miss Marple" mystery, toward the end
>> of
>> the show one of the playboy-type characters shows up in a nice red TR3,
>> gets
>> blown off by two pretty girls and rides happily off into the sunset
>> holding
>> high a champagne glass!
>>
> I'm a little confused about the time setting of the story.  Earlier on
> there was a ledger (or piece thereof) dated 1953 but the TR3 had door 
> handles
> dating it as 1958 at the earliest.  But then, I only caught the last half
> hour.
>
> Dave