[TR] A blast from the past

[Michael Ferguson]

Yup. '47 was a good year, I guess!

As for "...muscle car was a '70 Camaro, 6 cyl...", I think that may  
win the "Oxymoron of the Week" award. :)

As for identifying every car on the road, it was easy then! Now, they  
all look alike!

On May 19, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Bob Danielson wrote:

>
> 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