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LBC Disease
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He'll learn. We all suffer some form of affliction or other... if the condition is an "early onset" one, it'll be MUCH easier to cope with as he ages. You're actually givin' him a 'leg up' by allowing it to get him early in life. :laugh:
Humans can adapt to about anything, y'know. :wink:
Humans can adapt to about anything, y'know. :wink:
martx-5
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I'm 62, and had my first LBC at age 18. Except for a brief period of about four years, there has always been at least one LBC hanging around the house. My son grew up with all of this, but for some reason never seemed to catch the bug, although he did turn into a gear head. :laugh:
However, last week he sent me an e-mail and said, "Now that your done with the TR3, won't you need room in the garage for your next project?" What the heck do you think he's gettin' at!! :eeek:
However, last week he sent me an e-mail and said, "Now that your done with the TR3, won't you need room in the garage for your next project?" What the heck do you think he's gettin' at!! :eeek:
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Don_R
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I grew up with the TR3 I am now getting. We have had the car since 1972. I spent many a day with that car. So I have been long suffering with it. Didn't help that my uncle had a TR3, a TR6 ,a Healy 300,and a Healy 3000.
Thinking about it this may be a genetic thing. Maybe the genome project has some info on this.
Thinking about it this may be a genetic thing. Maybe the genome project has some info on this.
texas_bugeye
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LBC disease..
Its not a disease it’s a <span style="font-weight: bold">hereditary trait </span>. I have it My Mom has it My dad had it I have several Aunts who have it, It’s a dominant gene on my mothers side. Some PhysicalCues to a person with the gene
Being able to climb in and out of a LBC as if it were a full size Buick.
Being Drawn to the smells of Connolly leather cleaner and Burning Castrol. :crazy:
Confused as to the purpose of a glove box and cup holders.
Preferring to have the top down… unless it rains for more than an hour.
Can hear a set of SU”s out of sync from a mile way.
They will argue about which better an LBC or a German sports car they are always rite never wrong.
Would never consider driving with out a pair of good gloves as you hands could damage the stiching of the wheel cover.
When people with this <span style="font-weight: bold">hereditary trait </span> meet for the first time they are all ready best freinds.....
Its not a disease it’s a <span style="font-weight: bold">hereditary trait </span>. I have it My Mom has it My dad had it I have several Aunts who have it, It’s a dominant gene on my mothers side. Some PhysicalCues to a person with the gene
Being able to climb in and out of a LBC as if it were a full size Buick.
Being Drawn to the smells of Connolly leather cleaner and Burning Castrol. :crazy:
Confused as to the purpose of a glove box and cup holders.
Preferring to have the top down… unless it rains for more than an hour.
Can hear a set of SU”s out of sync from a mile way.
They will argue about which better an LBC or a German sports car they are always rite never wrong.
Would never consider driving with out a pair of good gloves as you hands could damage the stiching of the wheel cover.
When people with this <span style="font-weight: bold">hereditary trait </span> meet for the first time they are all ready best freinds.....
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Oh yeah, it's genetic alright!! 
I have the unfortunate curse/blessing to have inherited the BC genes with their origins in Crewe. First for me was a Mini, then a Jaguar, next step can only be a Bentley or right into a Rolls. My brother has it too. He has had TR3's all of his car life. And I just played co-dependant by sending him to look at a Jaguar this weekend. Absolutely genetic! :laugh:
I have the unfortunate curse/blessing to have inherited the BC genes with their origins in Crewe. First for me was a Mini, then a Jaguar, next step can only be a Bentley or right into a Rolls. My brother has it too. He has had TR3's all of his car life. And I just played co-dependant by sending him to look at a Jaguar this weekend. Absolutely genetic! :laugh:
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It's totally genetic. In 1960, my parents had a new Healey 3000. My dad is a hobbyist turned professional restorer, and while I enjoyed a ride in his Packards as a child, my vivid memories are of the XK-120 coupe parts car in the driveway that we were allowed to play in. Yes, you needed a tetanus shot to even go near the thing, but my folks let us sit on the rusty floor boards and pretend we were driving (hey it was the 70s). When I entered high school, the car we spent the weekends working on was the 120 coupe he was restoring. He then restored several T-series MGs for friends, several pre-war ACs and then when I graduated from college, we participated in New England MG T Register's Circuit of Britain -- roughly a month and several thousand miles in Britain in a 1952 TD and roughly 90 other T-series cars. It took another fourteen years (and a divorce) before I finally bought my own LBC -- Greenie, my 1968 TR-250.
Oh, and as further evidence, my girlfriend -- who drives a 1971 TR-6 -- also got the gene from her father. Her earliest car memories are of his Series 1 E-type, and crying as a child when he sold it. He's currently got a beautiful Phase 1 BJ8 (anyone want to buy it?).
Our boys have also inherited the gene, and I couldn't be more proud!
Oh, and as further evidence, my girlfriend -- who drives a 1971 TR-6 -- also got the gene from her father. Her earliest car memories are of his Series 1 E-type, and crying as a child when he sold it. He's currently got a beautiful Phase 1 BJ8 (anyone want to buy it?).
Our boys have also inherited the gene, and I couldn't be more proud!