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

[Bill]

For us the cost is irrelevant ... not that we are rich or anything 
near that. We both (AnnaBelle and I) work together preparing the TR6 
for the Concours d'Elegance shows we attend ... about six a year.  We 
treat the show as a mini-vacation. For instance the Palo Alto Lions 
show is Sunday.  So we are leaving this afternoon driving both cars, 
the TR3, and TR6 ... the TR3 will be for display only as it is no 
where near original.  Stay at a nice hotel, then we will do the drive 
on Saturday, the show on Sunday, where we hope for a podium finish 
... if not ... we had a great parking place.
The time we spend together is far more valuable than any cost for 
driving the Triumphs, I will admit that we are slowing down ... if 
the weather is predicted to be 100+ ... we will have to stay home.
For us to sit in the open car, with the wind beating you about the 
head and shoulders is nullified by the smooth purr of the 6, and the 
throaty bark of the 3.  At 76 years of age I don't have any idea how 
much longer we will be able to do this, but we will do it, and do it 
together as we have for the 53  years we have been married.
Cost of driving a Triumph ... unmeasurable ... joy ... unfathomable 
... don't give up you bliss



>This question came up at an interesting time. The cost of running my sports
>car has always been an issue, once the car moved from being my only
>transportation to being the "special" car.  Long ago I decided to run it
>only in the summer and to preserve it with the intent that it would be part
>of the fun of retirement.   The car spent many a year unregistered and
>sitting in a garage when I was married and the kids were young.  Now I can
>afford to run the car but am faced with the cost of replacing parts just due
>to their age, such as the crash pads.


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Bill Pugh
1957 TR3
"Casper"
TS16765L
1970 TR6
"Rosey"
CC59179L
Wallace, CA