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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Wow! What a story and what better inspiration is there to hop in our cars and simply drive them. Thanks for sharing!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Alex Thomson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>'73 TR6<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Triumphs <triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 9, 2025 10:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> [TR] My TR3s 65 and our 39th<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond",serif'>I had forgotten, June. June was the month I purchased my Triumph TR3A. June of 1986, now 39 years ago. It doesn't seem all that long ago. Even today every time I rest my eyes on her I fall in love again. She's far from perfect being a daily driver with 34 year old paint, but at a well used 65 years of age, who is perfect? She attends the local car club show & shine gatherings, often as the only British car amongst American muscle cars. We don't have coffee clutches in the Pacific northwest coastal redwood forest country. Just as well as I don't drink coffee. She'll never win local judging but I think she still looks lovely. Even with the wear & tare of decades of daily driving and weather she makes a lovely 20 foot car.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond",serif'>As I gaze out the the front door I fall in love again as we drive into our 40th year together.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond",serif'>TeriAnn</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=1500 height=1000 style='width:15.625in;height:10.4166in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DBF180.12707770"><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>