[TR] A blast from the past

[Bob Danielson]

Michael,
If you were 13 in 1960 then we were born the same year, 1947, and even
though I could identify every car on the road down to year, make and model,
I could never get into "American Muscle Cars" either. My sister was 4 years
older and had a '61 Impala convertible but my high school grades didn't
warrant me being allowed to get a car! She was the over-achiever in the
family. A lot of my friends had muscle cars so I had tons of shotgun seat
time in them. It wasn't until college that I finally got my very own first
car, a '61 Sprite, followed a year later by a '64 red Healey. The closest I
ever came to a muscle car was a '70 Camaro, 6 cyl 4 speed that my wife and I
bought after the Healey was sold and we got married. Ahhh.....the good old
days :-)

Bob

Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael Ferguson
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:15 PM
To: Chip19474 at aol.com
Cc: Triumph List
Subject: Re: [TR] A blast from the past

It's funny, but I never could get into those monsters of the 50's and 60's.
My first car, in 1967, was a '61 TR3A which, of course, would fit in the
trunk of a domestic! Even now, I like them only for the nostalgia value...
damn, they were big!!

Still, in 1960 when I was 13, I swore that when I was old enough to get a
car, it was going to be a 1960 Impala, a red one. Never happened, but hey...
I had my '3! :)

On May 19, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Chip19474 at aol.com wrote:

> Absolutely David......American 50's and '60's vehicles were all about 
> style and power.  September television shows were highly anticipated - 
> not  for
> the show but for the introduction of "next year's models"!  Pretty   
> girls
> always highlighted the new low look or the windswept tail fins......no  
> worry about fuel mileage standards, quality control was just a glance, 
> tailpipe emissons were off the map by today's specs, and safety - nah 
> - with all that steel, who needs safety features!!  Funny, a TR3 still 
> looks as small against an Escalade today as it did against my father's 
> Buick Estate Wagon....ahhh, those were the years:)
>
> Chip Krout
> Delaware Valley Triumphs, Ltd.
> Skippack, PA
> 1976 TR6  CF57822U