[TR] Interesting experience

[Brian Induni]

TeriAnn, do you think you could/would ever be able to find the girl again?
If you ran in to the family at the local grocery store, I bet it wouldn't be
too difficult to make contact. The reason I ask is; if this 14 year old had
THAT much interest as admitted to by her family, I suggest we as a group
could find, purchase, and deliver a TR3 project to her. We all need to start
taking action to help keep this dying hobby alive and show the younger
generation how important collaboration and group resources are. There must
be at least 100 of us on this list - if we each chipped in $100, I bet $10k
would find a great project AND get it delivered to her AND provide some
getting start cash for parts, tools, etc. Call me crazy in these tough
times, but I'd forgo getting the new windscreen for my MGB to chip in the
cash. How about it? 

Here's a great candidate
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1961-Triumph-TR-Project-/230864568925?pt=US_C
ars_Trucks&hash=item35c099c25d

I coach the local High School FIRST Robotics team, and I can attest to the
great things kids can do and dreams you can inspire with just a little
generosity and guidance.

Brian

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:10:47 -0700
From: "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman at gmail.com>
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Subject: [TR] Interesting experience
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I had an interesting experience yesterday in the grocery store parking 
lot.  A family was standing around looking at my TR3 when I came out of 
the grocery store. Of course as I approached I asked if there were any 
questions about the car I could answer.

As it turns out the 14 year old daughter has her heart set on having a 
TR3 when she gets older. According to her parents and older brother she 
has been researching cars for a couple of years looking for a cute 
roadster/convertible that wassimple enough for her to learn to work on.  
She is hoping to find a tired driver that she could restore herself.  So 
of course the family had a lot of questions and I let her sit inside one 
for the very first time so she could get a feel for the interior. She 
got her picture taken behind the wheeland I think became even more 
determined to become a future TR3 owner.

Unfortunately they suddenly decided that they needed tobe off before 
frozen food thawed and I did not get their contact informationbefore 
they drove off.  But it was nice to see that I wasn't the only girl 
smitten by a TR3 and was willing to take restoring one on.

TeriAnn