[V8] Ah...the TR's...

[Roger M. Woodbury]

For a brief few months between ending my two years' teaching career and
going in to the USAF, I got a summertime job doing something that I had
always wanted to do, and that was sell cars.

The stealership that I worked for sold six brands of new cars and a slew of
used (mostly clapped out) ones.  We sold Peugeot, Volvo, Renault (!),
Triumph, Fiat and a really strange American car wannebe called Toyota.  

Triumph had two models that it sold here at that time.  There was the rather
ubiquitous Spitfire and a successor to the TR4 called the TR-250.  Later it
became a more or less REAL car, called the TR6.  

The TR-250 was a stone of the first order.  It was slow, ponderous and
handled worse than an overloaded oxcart. I sold one to someone and it burst
into flames not long after delivery.  I drove one to Providence to trade
with a stealership down there, and had an awful trip.

Fortunately, I went off to the war in Southeast Asia and escaped having to
have anything more to do with those awful cars.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: justin.bowers at comcast.net [mailto:justin.bowers at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:10 PM
To: Roger M. Woodbury; cobram at juno.com
Cc: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] Ah...the TR's...

Wow, what a funny trip down memory lane!

My father had a TR6 that  he loved.  When it came time for ME to purchase my
first car at the ripe old age of 16 he found a TR4A that someone had
neglected for what appeared to be its entire life.  :)

In the end, I wasn't able to purchase the car for several reasons...1. The
guy believed the car was made of gold and even though he had neglected it
for years it was still worth as much as one in pristine condition.  2.  My
dad wasn't all that interested in working on, repairing, or chipping in to
sort out all that was wrong with it.  3.  Did I mention I had just turned
16, had very little money, a part time job that paid peanuts, etc.?  :)

Anyway, I've always liked the looks of the TR's (anything from the TR6 era
or earlier), and I certainly have fond memories of riding around in my
fathers (even though he only let me drive it one time - and he was in the
car, and it was just around the block!).

Justin
01 S8q
90 V8q


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net>
> My '61 Triumph TR3A when I was an undergraduate.  My best friend next door
> had a '64 Triumph TR4.  Sunday's were reserved for tinkering by the side
of
> the road with the two British Racing Green cars.  
> 
> I got pretty good with SU carburetors and all sort of other things.  I
> managed at some point to take apart the electric switch that engaged the
> overdrive.  When it all got back together...and I have NO idea what
> happened, I managed to get eight speeds out of the transmission...
> 
> Not that it mattered really, but I could get an overdrive in each of the
> four forward speeds. 
> 
> To this day, I have NO idea how that happened.
> 
> Roger
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobram at juno.com [mailto:cobram at juno.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:03 PM
> To: rmwoodbury at adelphia.net
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] $59000....nope
> 
>  "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> writes:
> 
> > That great tractor motor up front was sluggish to say the least.  
> 
> I have a transmission out of one somewhere out of some English car.  I
> can't remember what I pulled it out of, but it's a tractor transmission,
> literally, all they did was slap it in the car with a bolted piece of
> steel over reduced 1st gear, so 2nd tractor gear becomes...ta da....1st
> motor carriage gear.  R&D, what's that, a pub in Brighton?
>  
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant
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