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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:11.0pt'>John,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The pleasure has been mine, sometimes I can see myself at the assembly line or the sales floor through your comments and books. It does seem the email traffic has quieted, but not gone as the various TR marques are well represented on Facebook these days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I seem to recall you are working on another book, is this so? Please keep me posted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bill B<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>TS30766L<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><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'> John Macartney <johnBMacartney@gmx.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 30, 2025 5:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'bill beecher' <notakitcar@yahoo.com><br><b>Cc:</b> 'MASSEY DAVID' <dave1massey@cs.com>; 'List Truimphs' <triumphs@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [TR] Happy Birthday, John MacCartney<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thank you, Bill. It’s been a pleasure for me to read all the posts down the years, even though my contributions these days are few and probably not at all helpful. It seems ‘the list’ these days is a mere shadow of its former self but then so many contributors have died, sold their cars and/or migrated to other forums. I’m a member of two of those others which frankly I find rather boring and over-segmented into different model groups whose adherents/supporters don’t want to cross-polinate on model preferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Anyway, keep the posts coming please, everyone. They’re still a source of great pleasure to an ‘oldie’ and a very pleasant reminder of happier days in a less troubled world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jonmac<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><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'> bill beecher <<a href="mailto:notakitcar@yahoo.com">notakitcar@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> 30 August 2025 03:22<br><b>To:</b> Macartney John <<a href="mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com">johnbmacartney@gmx.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> MASSEY DAVID <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>>; List Truimphs <<a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TR] Happy Birthday, John MacCartney<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Happy Birthday John! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thank you for staying with all us kids that are still learning our TRs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Bill B<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>TS30766L<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>“Obstacles are all you see when you take your eyes off the goal” H. Ford<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br>On Aug 27, 2025, at 4:47</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><span lang=EN-GB>PM, John Macartney <<a href="mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com">johnbmacartney@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thank you, Dave - eighty one today but still feeding myself without issues :)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jonmac<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br>On 27 Aug 2025, at 12:24, DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Here's hoping you a good one.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dave </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs">http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>