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TR2/3/3A TR3 to the rescue

rusty55

Jedi Hopeful
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Just a quick story about my day

All the cars I own and the Triumph, today, didn’t let me down.
The MINI is in the body shop as someone sideswiped my son last month. So I took my wife to work this morning, at 5:30am so the kids could use her car to go volunteer at the hospital like they do on Tuesdays.
I had the kids car so I could go to work. Well, while on my way to North Hollywood the front brake caliper lost it's bolts and fell off, I mean it was hanging by the brake line. Nice huh?
So I climbed under, used a tie wrap to hold it up, a vise grip to squeeze the brake line, and drove the hour and a half home trying to not touch the brakes, on the 405 in Los Angeles, not an easy task.
I needed parts & I needed to do 1 more inspection (I'm an inspector). So I jumped in the Triumph, it started right up and got me where I needed to go.
So, the 1960 TR3 was the car to rely on today :smile:
And always a lot more fun to drive!
 
rusty55 said:
and drove the hour and a half home trying to not touch the brakes, on the 405 in Los Angeles, not an easy task.

YIKES! As one who spends way too much time on the 405, glad you made it home OK.
 
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