Hi Gents, and perhaps Ladies ?
As the Title says "Hello from Suffolk, England, UK". Oddly.. I don't have a British made car at the moment but I do have five classic Brit. motorcycles, two of which I'll be selling soon to afford a Triumph TR, preferably a TR4, 4A or 5 / 250. Otherwise my Daily driver is an '04 Chrysler Voyager (excellent vehicles in my opinion) and I also have an old and now rare Citroen Ami-super c.1974 which I bought in Slovenia. Citroen had a satellite factory there when it was Yugoslavia, and CIMOS built my car. This being a British car forum, I guess most of you would not have heard of Cimos nor of the Ami-Super. That car too is to be sold to fund life, my sail boat (cottage on the water), and this TR project.
Redundancy forced early retirement on me so I have time but not a bundle of money. I used to be a design engineer and then restored post-war Sunbeam motorcycles. I lived & worked in the US for six year ..I like the place :eagerness: as I work in yacht build and design (Annapolis and then down in New Orleans). I also managed a car resto shop for a while in Virginia. At that time my daily drive was a TR3a without a top. Chilly but fun in the snow.
I brought a TR4 back with me to England and restored that, but life being what it is I had to sell her. I really liked everything about that car so it one of things I regret. The other was being made redundant when I worked down in New Orleans and so having no money to ship a car back I sold my XK150S (..easy project) for $6k. That was only 20 years ago, now see how the prices have moved on.! I'd really love another Jag 150 (my all time favourite car), but I know that I'll be never be able to afford one now. The TR4 is the second most enjoyable car I owned, and one of those ought to be still affordable ..if I buy a project and do the work myself.
So that's me. Thanks for letting me play in your yard. I hope to have fun, to learn a bit, and perhaps also I'll be able to help others with a few answers too. After-all the British Cars now thought to be 'classic' were just ordinary cars when I grew up.
My best regards to you all and to the administrators / moderators.
Bfg
(Big friendly giant because I'm 6'5" tall)
As the Title says "Hello from Suffolk, England, UK". Oddly.. I don't have a British made car at the moment but I do have five classic Brit. motorcycles, two of which I'll be selling soon to afford a Triumph TR, preferably a TR4, 4A or 5 / 250. Otherwise my Daily driver is an '04 Chrysler Voyager (excellent vehicles in my opinion) and I also have an old and now rare Citroen Ami-super c.1974 which I bought in Slovenia. Citroen had a satellite factory there when it was Yugoslavia, and CIMOS built my car. This being a British car forum, I guess most of you would not have heard of Cimos nor of the Ami-Super. That car too is to be sold to fund life, my sail boat (cottage on the water), and this TR project.
Redundancy forced early retirement on me so I have time but not a bundle of money. I used to be a design engineer and then restored post-war Sunbeam motorcycles. I lived & worked in the US for six year ..I like the place :eagerness: as I work in yacht build and design (Annapolis and then down in New Orleans). I also managed a car resto shop for a while in Virginia. At that time my daily drive was a TR3a without a top. Chilly but fun in the snow.
I brought a TR4 back with me to England and restored that, but life being what it is I had to sell her. I really liked everything about that car so it one of things I regret. The other was being made redundant when I worked down in New Orleans and so having no money to ship a car back I sold my XK150S (..easy project) for $6k. That was only 20 years ago, now see how the prices have moved on.! I'd really love another Jag 150 (my all time favourite car), but I know that I'll be never be able to afford one now. The TR4 is the second most enjoyable car I owned, and one of those ought to be still affordable ..if I buy a project and do the work myself.
So that's me. Thanks for letting me play in your yard. I hope to have fun, to learn a bit, and perhaps also I'll be able to help others with a few answers too. After-all the British Cars now thought to be 'classic' were just ordinary cars when I grew up.
My best regards to you all and to the administrators / moderators.
Bfg
(Big friendly giant because I'm 6'5" tall)