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

[Maurice Greven]

Kent... You sang my song, but we wrote more, back in '76

"Hark my Triumph Herald sings,
Glory to those brand new rings..."
(Written after some engine work...)

Also my high school buddies thought it was cute to pick up the car at the
rear wheel wells until the swing axle would let the tire slide in and get
all "wonky".. then they would do the other side and the car would look jike
a jacked-up , pigeon toed funky mobile....  We also learned that lo-speed
hard u-turns could allow you to "get air" on one of the rear wheels... 

Also since the Herald was my first car (to own or to work on) I thought it
was "normal" for a car to have only one leaf spring.. The Herald's goes
ACROSS the car from one rear hub across the top of the differential to the
other hub. Now I realize the Brits were just being cheap and could make
twice as many cars with their original order of leaf springs...

Enough of Trinmphs for me....
Maurice 


-----Original Message-----
From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Maurice Greven
Cc: Audi List
Subject: Re: [V8] Ah...the TR's...

Maurice Greven wrote:
> My experience in the Triumph world was to own two 1965 Triumph Heralds.

<sung to the tune of the Christmas carol>
Hark! The Herald's axles swing... [1]
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Sorry, couldn't resist.

[1] For the uninformed, the Herald, like the original VW Beetle and
Triumph Spitfire, used swing axles in the rear. A sharp corner would
make the axles, and handling, go all wonky.

-- 
Kent McLean
'91 200 TQA #1, for sale
'91 200 TQA #2, no name yet
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke