[TR] [Spits] Trivia alertTriumph in advertising

[Carl TR]

Has anyone installed a 'lighter' socket on a positive ground car (TR3). 
Will these accessories work?

C

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Templeton" <davidt at opentext.com>
To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist at cox.net>; <v6spitfireguy at cox.net>; 
<spitfires at autox.team.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] [Spits] Trivia alertTriumph in advertising


> On the front page of the tomtom site, it looks like either a red tr6 or
> a sunbeam, not sure I am sure others will know better :-)
>
> http://www.tomtom.com/
>
> Somewhere on their site they had the spitfire as well.  Just picked up
> the 730 :-)  what goes better with a spitfire, darth vader voices :-)
>
> David
> '59 tr3a
> '74 spitsix
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe Curry
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:56 PM
> To: v6spitfireguy at cox.net; spitfires at autox.team.net
> Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spits] Trivia alertTriumph in advertising
>
> The trouble with using a Spitfire to hawk GPS systems is that there was
> no
> cigarette lighter socket installed to power the system.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> v6spitfireguy at cox.net
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:42 AM
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> Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Trivia alertTriumph in advertising
>
> We were shopping at our local Costco (a large bulk item store for those
> of
> you who arent familiar with the name) and as I passed by a row of GPS
> devices, something caught my eye.  I glanced back and sure enough, on a
> poster board about three foot square, with a Tom-Tom GPS attached to the
> top of it, was a large photo of an early white MK4 Spitfire on a country
> road.  A full three quarter back right side shot, about two feet long.
> I
> of course shrieked to my wife,  HEY DEAR, LOOK which caused a few
> people
> to suddenly look over to see what I was apparently so excited about.
> They
> probably thought I was excited about the GPS  but we all know what I
> was
> really looking at!!  My wife of course noticed that it was occupied by
> two
> girls, silly me for not noticing It was pretty cool
>
> Barry and Rosanne
> San Diego, CA
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