Triumph Art Anyone?

angelfj1

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• Apr 11, 2008

• #1

Check this out.

https://www.passionsmobiles.com/files/index.php?id=64

 

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Jedi Knight

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• Apr 11, 2008

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Pricey isn't it........But Cool.........

 

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Adrio

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• Apr 11, 2008

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reminds me a bit of grade school back in the '60s. You could tell what size engine the kids parents had by the distributor cap they had on the desk as a pencil holder. I always felt inadequate with my little five hole one when other kids had seven and nine hole pencil holders.

Fast forward too many years and every time I open my email inbox the spam email adds try to give me the same feeling

 

Don Elliott

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• Apr 11, 2008

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Adrio - The kids today don't need a pencil holder. They don't have pencils. They have cell phones so they don't write. They have hand held calculators so they don't do arithmetic. They don't need an eraser because their computers have a backspace. Etc. etc. etc. Ut they get carpel syndrome we never got.

 

Brosky

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• Apr 11, 2008

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And they can't play baseball without 30 adults screwing the game up for them.

And no one has to sit on the bench or get picked last, hence the lack of energy to excel at anything besides video games.

 

martx-5

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• Apr 11, 2008

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At work today, I was setting something up on the Bridgeport. I had to do some arithmetic calculations and was doing it on a piece of paper using a pen. The young kid waiting to do the work asked me "Wouldn't it be easier to do that with a calculator?"...

 

DNK

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• Apr 11, 2008

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Boy, didn't even know i was styling. Got a TR6 bonnet hanging from my garage ceiling

 

Don Elliott

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• Apr 11, 2008

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Writing about collectors, there is a member of our local Triumph club who must have about 100 or more different Triumph model cars. You know Dinky toys and the like. I tell him and others, I don't like collecting these tiny model cars to collect dust on the shelf. I have the full-scale model and it will run at full speed any time I want.

 

toysrrus

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• Apr 11, 2008

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Hi There FJA,

I just sent the link to a TR3 & Alpha Romeo friend of mine who has parts coming out of his "A_s" for both marques.

Can you imagine what kind of a "Profitable" hobby this would be for him / Us!

Thanx,

Russ

 

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TRDejaVu

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• Apr 11, 2008

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I would prefer to see an ever dwindling supply of parts go on a car, not a wall or shelf. It is bad enough when the profiteers part out a restorable car.

Now I have to get back to painting a canvas all white, so that I can sell it to the idiots and poseurs who think that is art. While it is drying I will also put together a pile of bricks to sell as a sculpture.

 

Andrew Mace

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• Apr 11, 2008

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$5k for a carved-up GT6 bonnet?

On the other hand, maybe I should contact my local high school's art class...I've got a Guggenheim's worth of potential sculpture in MY barn!

 

Brosky

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• Apr 11, 2008

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If I would ever spend money on something like that, she would have the guys from the funny farm here in an hour.

I have enough trouble hiding new parts as they come in the mail. I don't need any reminders in my living room about what's on the workbench or out in the garage.

 

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angelfj1

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• Apr 12, 2008

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Why not make your own knock-offs. With the skills that most folks have here it would be easy.

Frank

 

Don Elliott

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• Apr 12, 2008

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A chap in England did a watercolour of my 1958 TR3A from a photo I sent him.

 

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• Apr 12, 2008

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It's probably none of my business, but where did you hang the watercolor?

Does anyone know where I can get "New Tan" drapes?

 

Brosky

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• Apr 12, 2008

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The New Tan drapes are right behind the Chestnut drapes and above the dark brown carpeting.