[TR] What cost to give up your Triumph? (Rhetorical?)

[Wayne Lee]

Please excuse the way I spelled Brooklands.  That's Bad...
Spellcheck still telling me to change it.

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From: "Wayne Lee" <wayne at motorcarriage.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:40 PM
To: "John Macartney" <macartney.john at yahoo.co.uk>; "Triumph List" 
<triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] What cost to give up your Triumph? (Rhetorical?)

> Hi John,
>
>  There is no way to put oneself in another's Shoe's and attempt to share 
> or
> understand his rational behind his decision. He is indeed a lucky Man to 
> have
> that Car,(Woolf Barnato, Brooklyn, LeMans, come to mind,  and he obviously
> understands as do a lot of us that we're just the Caretaker's of our Car's 
> that are
> Collectible and not of the disposable sort just like our Home's that we 
> have.
> I'm a former Bentley owner (a 48 Mk VI) and currently own a 65 Silver 
> Cloud III
> the last of the Coach Built Rolls. But I could summarize my selfish 
> thoughts of
> being in his position very easily.
>
>   How much Petrol do You think he could put into his Speed Six over the 
> next
> few year's? Whatever that # is, he would receive a bigger return for his 
> Estate
> after he leaves it than some 1.5% IRA or a dodgy Investment of some type.
> I'd rather be looking at that Bentley every day, (much like a fine Art 
> Investment)
> even when I wasn't enjoying driving it, than looking at a Bank Book 
> reflecting the
> sum of Money I brought in for it. This isn't the right time to sell such a 
> Car and he
> should hang on to that Puppy to the end if he doesn't need the revenue 
> from it.
>
> Cheers,
> Wayne Lee
> Douglas, MA
> 64 TR4
> 69 Spit
> 75 TR6