[TR] The List is Less Busy These Days

[Greg Lemon]

Teri Ann and listers,

I am still here but don't post too often.  Restored my car about 15 years
ago now, still used, but not daily, but everything still works pretty well.

I do want to say that is so cool that the TR is still your daily.  I daily
drove my TR4A until about 1990 or 91.  Rust from winters and no AC when I
was still wearing suits to work led to the switch to hobby car status.

As far as list traffic, I am guessing there just aren't as many cars being
worked on/restored (maybe driven) as much as owners age out.  I know at 64
I am at the younger end of the curve for British car ownership. I don't see
as much activity on British car forums either.  I am wondering what sort of
sales figures Moss has had over the last three decades or so.

I first came aware of the monster vendors list and thought that was so
great, must have been the early 90s (only had access to the internet
through work).  Late 90s I had an Austin Healey and a computer and joined
the Healey mail list.  2007 or so sold the Healey and bought a TR250 a few
months later and have been on the Triumph list since then.

My other problem with list traffic is that since I went to Gmail it doesn't
work very well.  Mark warned me it would be bad, it has been. I have tried
unblocking and all the things I can think of, still think I get half or
less of the list traffic, no rhyme or reason to it, but I see responses to
questions I have never seen all the time.

I don't see my own replies ever, so don't know if they get posted.
Sometimes people answer, which is nice, guess they go through sometimes.

As far as  British cars I am a bit of a pantheist.  I have had MGs,
Triumphs, Austin Healeys.  Recently got a Jaguar, which is a whole new
adventure.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Greg Lemon



On Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 11:38 AM TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM John Macartney <johnbmacartney at gmx.com>
> wrote:
>
> Just out of casual interest, how many are still here in comparison to say
>> the Millenium? I suspect not many.
>
> I'm still here from the day the list was started, and before. Times and
> places have changed so I don't really have much of anything to say. I'm
> currently living near Crescent City, California in that semi isolated area
> usually referred to as being behind the redwood curtain (i.e. isolated and
> harder to get to). I've the only Triumph currently being used as a daily
> driver. There is a gray TR3 not far away that very seldom gets driven by
> someone not interested in Triumph comradery and a black TR3 about 15 miles
> up north which I have only seen twice. Then there are a couple stalled TR3
> projects in garages. No real Triumph comradery here and no signs of the
> other TRs. So nothing really to write about.  And of course there isn't the
> traffic nor comradery on this list that used to exist. I'm still here but
> with nothing really to say or share. I've recently replaced the U-joints
> and the clutch slave cylinder that have worn out. Nothing newsworthy. Other
> than that she's still a daily driver, but gets used mostly as a grocery
> getter. No club rides other than one or two drives a year with a couple
> local MGB and Big Healey owners.
>
> Here, still driving but nothing to write about.
>     TeriAnn
>
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