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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>While finishing off an engine rebuild on one of my TR3s I heard “I’m in love with my car” by Queen. Although I remembered it from years ago, I thought “what a cool song”, especially the line “it’s a disease, man”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So I looked it up. What do you know – it was inspired <span style='background:white'>by one of the band's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_crew" title="Road crew"><span style='color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'>roadies</span></a><span style='background:white'>, Johnathan Harris, whose </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_TR4" title="Triumph TR4"><span style='color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Triumph TR4</span></a><span style='background:white'> was evidently the “love of his life”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>These cars have their personalities, and can certainly drive you to drink on occasions. But when all is said and done, there is no doubt that an affection grows for these aging pieces of British engineering. Love? Not sure, but when after a complete rebuild my car fired right up, great oil pressure, great idle, I patted it on the fender and thanked it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Andrew Uprichard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Jackson, Michigan</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>