[TR] No names, no pack drill.

[Philip Ethier]

Good on ya!

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM John Macartney <johnbmacartney at gmx.com>
wrote:

> I was cleaning out my spam and junk mail folder today and had a quiet
> chuckle to myself.
> There’s a bloke in this world whose company makes electric cars and it
> seems that in the UK he’s not exactly flavour of the month at the moment.
> That to one side, the email informed me of a number of ‘demonstrations’
> scheduled to take place this coming weekend at showrooms selling the
> electric cars aforesaid. I quickly scanned the various locations and
> laughed out loud when I saw the event planned for West London.
>
>  It’s going to be at 153 Dukes Road, Park Royal, London W3.
>
> So what’s in an address?
>
> It just happens that 153 Dukes Road, Park Royal, London W3 is the exact
> same address of Standard-Triumph’s London Service Division which I visited
> on many occasions in my mis-spent ‘swinging sixties’ youth in the days when
> interesting cars were made.
>
> The old place which had a special corner in my heart is now demolished
> with new buildings in its place.
>
> I don’t plan or wish to attend the forthcoming event but it would be fun
> to turn up in my much-loved and greatly missed former TR5 with its chronic
> pressure relief valve warble and ask whoever I met if Jeff Hancock (the
> Lucas injection guru) was available to sort out my dilemma?
>
> Bless him, Jeff’s been dead these many years, as has my gorgeous Valencia
> Blue bolide, but it would be nice to be there in spirit with car and Jeff -
> and without a protest placard. I could just sit there revving the engine
> and send clouds of over-rich carbon monoxide into the gathered crowd. That
> *would* be fun.
>
> Jonmac
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Phil Ethier, West Side, Saint Paul Minnesota, USA
2006 Gulf Stream Conquest Super C, 8.1, white
2011 Cayman 2.9 PDK, white
2021 Ford F-150 3500cc twin turbo, white
1991 Caterham 1700 Super Sprint, not white
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