Vintage pics of me and my TRs

[sjuengst]

Just for fun, here are some old pictures of me and my various TRs. The first was a TR4Airs that I bought in 1976 while I was in high school for $900. She had bad rust in the rocker panels. I sold her a couple of years later for $600.

In my freshman year in college (1977) I bought this nice TR3A with $400 in student-loan money. I bought a racing engine from Rick Cline (our local TR racing hero) for $70. She was a sweet car, but unfortunately I wrecked her in 1981.

After I wrecked the red one, I turned my parts car into a driver, and drove her daily until 1984, when I sold her for $600.

I was without a British car for 26 years, but now I've inherited my Dad's Austin-Healey 3000.

 

[3798j]

Neat photos.....and couldn't help but enjoy your "progression" in time.

 

[poolboy]

That's great. Thanks for sharing.

 

[luke44]

I enjoyed Rick Cline a lot. It was like going to Mecca to his shop for me. I bought a ton of parts from him for my racing Spitfires.

I also enjoyed watching him take on the factory teams at Road Atlanta in the '70's. He could make 'em all go fast - I remember at his peak he was running 2 Spits in 2 different classes, a GT6, and a Herald!

I always wondered if he was still around the Gainesville area working away on old LBC's.

 

[booley]

fantastic fotos! thanx for sharing

 

[simpson]

FWB! That's my hometown. I was a couple years ahead of you, graduated CHS in 73 and went over to FSU where I banged around in a 70 MGB.

 

[HerronScott]

Nice pictures! You got a better deal than I did. I paid $500 for mine in 1979 and later found out most of the frame was actually rotted away behind the A-arms! I did keep it though and restored it with the help of a rust-free donor frame and body tub ($150 in those days with suspension and rear diff/axles etc.!).

Scott

 

[sjuengst]

Hey Simpson, you might know my ex-wife Sally Sage. She graduated from CHS in '73 also. I went to HS in Gainesville, but am in FWB now because of her. Sailing's great here (my other money-pit hobby).

 

[Don Elliott]

Nice photos - Comparing the first photo of you with the TR4 and the last in the Healey, I couldn't help but notice that you not only inherited your father's Healey, but his hairline as well.

Here is a photo of me (wearing the British driving cap and the "State Trooper" sunglasses) in the Spring of 1960 with my 1958 TR3A. I used to spend weekends all winter during my first year in University (Mech. Eng.) with a bunch of friends who had rented a "ski house" in the Laurentians north of Montreal. Boy we sure had fun. And when I'm driving my TR3A these recent warm spring days, I feel like I'm 20 years old all over again. Life is Great !