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Methodicalsearch
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Hello Brit fans,
I am new to forums, never attended a car show, and have met few people who even knew what I was driving. My obsession with English vehicles began in 1950 when I saw my first 120.....It's lasted for 63 years so far. My first one was a 66 TR4-A in 1968 (totaled in 1969, rolled seven times). I survived but was hooked for life.
In 72 I bought a new 72 Daytona 500 as my sole vehicle. It was stolen in 74 and was replaced with a new 74 Norton 850. After a year of driving only the Norton in South Dakota I really needed a car so I bought a 66 Tiger for $1,500. I moved to Northern Va in 76 and hired on with IBM as a Field Engineer ans used the Tiger daily until 1979 when I test drove a 77 1/2 TVR 2500 M as a lark. I had to have it and it remains the best car I have ever driven. I drove it daily until 1988 (212,000 miles). No one ever worked on the TVR but me and it remains the most fun and reliable car I have ever had, it never broke down the entire time I drove it....I still have it. It started using oil badly and I needed a car for work so I traded the 66 Tiger for an 86 TVR 280I with 2,000 miles. I put 150,000 miles on the 280I (with no issues) until emissions testing in Northern Va necessitated I get something else.....some piece of crap I don't even remember.
In 1979 I picked up my dream car, 56 XK-140 SE which I have been restoring ever since, completely disassembled and restored....hopefully done within the next year.
At this point I have the two TVRs (to be restored), 53 TD-restored, 76 T-140-restored, 74 Norton 850-restored, XK-140 almost complete, 66 TR4A (wife's car to be restored), 59 Morgan 4/4 narrow body 1600GT-unrestored daily driver (wife's....she's the Morgan freak) and a few old American cars/trucks that my wife and I drive daily.
At the end of the day I am a machine freak that has developed an obsession with the "British sense of humor" and as it apples to their engineering.....I just love these things. I am not a collector but a consumer and I drive the heck out of them, in the rain, snow, or whatever. I work on them myself and enjoy every minute of it.........well, maybe not every minute.
Anyway, it's nice to see other people have an appreciation for these machines as well.......Motoring as it was when motoring was an adventure..........Jerry
I am new to forums, never attended a car show, and have met few people who even knew what I was driving. My obsession with English vehicles began in 1950 when I saw my first 120.....It's lasted for 63 years so far. My first one was a 66 TR4-A in 1968 (totaled in 1969, rolled seven times). I survived but was hooked for life.
In 72 I bought a new 72 Daytona 500 as my sole vehicle. It was stolen in 74 and was replaced with a new 74 Norton 850. After a year of driving only the Norton in South Dakota I really needed a car so I bought a 66 Tiger for $1,500. I moved to Northern Va in 76 and hired on with IBM as a Field Engineer ans used the Tiger daily until 1979 when I test drove a 77 1/2 TVR 2500 M as a lark. I had to have it and it remains the best car I have ever driven. I drove it daily until 1988 (212,000 miles). No one ever worked on the TVR but me and it remains the most fun and reliable car I have ever had, it never broke down the entire time I drove it....I still have it. It started using oil badly and I needed a car for work so I traded the 66 Tiger for an 86 TVR 280I with 2,000 miles. I put 150,000 miles on the 280I (with no issues) until emissions testing in Northern Va necessitated I get something else.....some piece of crap I don't even remember.
In 1979 I picked up my dream car, 56 XK-140 SE which I have been restoring ever since, completely disassembled and restored....hopefully done within the next year.
At this point I have the two TVRs (to be restored), 53 TD-restored, 76 T-140-restored, 74 Norton 850-restored, XK-140 almost complete, 66 TR4A (wife's car to be restored), 59 Morgan 4/4 narrow body 1600GT-unrestored daily driver (wife's....she's the Morgan freak) and a few old American cars/trucks that my wife and I drive daily.
At the end of the day I am a machine freak that has developed an obsession with the "British sense of humor" and as it apples to their engineering.....I just love these things. I am not a collector but a consumer and I drive the heck out of them, in the rain, snow, or whatever. I work on them myself and enjoy every minute of it.........well, maybe not every minute.
Anyway, it's nice to see other people have an appreciation for these machines as well.......Motoring as it was when motoring was an adventure..........Jerry
