<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">15 years ago (almost to the day) my grandson and I had the opportunity to visit Herman at his home in Pine Mountain Club. It had snowed. Helena stayed by the fire upstairs while Herman and I were in his workshop downstairs assembling a conversion tranny. My grandson made snow angels outside. I'll miss him.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Johnnie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">'67 TR4A with HVDA conversion and battery tie down.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com" target="_blank">dave1massey@cs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">Heartbreaking news indeed. He was one stand-up guy and touched just about everyone in the Triumph community in a good way. He will be missed, certainly by me.<br>
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Subject: [TR] Herman van den Akker<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="m_-5594814805929241917aolReplacedBody">We just heard from Helena that Herman has passed away, complications for pneumonia . More to follow Helena sending me eMail.
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<div>I cannot express how hurtful this tragedy is … Herman is/was One of a Kind … his loss … sorry I can’t go on.</div>
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