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[Member 10617]

Having two grandchildren is a great excuse for having two of these cars. I can't leave a car to one grandchild without leaving a car to the other ... can I? Just doesn't seem "fair." (My wife doesn't buy this logic... yet.) Now if I only had a two car garage...

 

[Tr3aguy]

OK I had to add my kids dreaming of the car cruising down the road...

 

[swift6]

Nothing special. They really aren't all that interested beyond going for rides, though they are both learning how to drive a manual with the 4A (which isn't the easiest car to learn it on, when you are used to power-everything).

When I was going through drivers education I used to have a lot of fun with my drivers ed instructor. I had been driving since I could stand on the seat of my dads truck so I was an exemplary student and he would put up with my shenanigans. One day after a street driving section we were chatting as I waited for my mom to pick me up. When she pulled up, she was driving her brand new 300ZX. He looked at me and said "you get to drive that!" I smiled ans said "yep". as if on cue, as I walked over to the car, my mom got out and moved over to the passenger side allowing me to drive away behind the wheel. He walked over and introduced himself to my mom, noticed that it was a 5-speed car and told my mom it was no wonder I didn't have a problem driving the schools Cutlass Ciera.

 

[Brosky]

I'll bet he thought that your Mom was pretty cool too......as he got into his Chevy Nova 4 door sedan and drove home......

 

[Reh]

We're doing some important work here... We're raising the next generation of sports car enthusiasts. If we don't, who will care for and drive these cars that we have carefully preserved? I venture to say that 99 out of 100 kids today not only have never ever seen a carburetor, but don't even know what a carburetor is.

My Dad was raised around TR4s all his life. He never bought his own Triumph, but without my Grandfather's influence i wouldn't be a lucky/ proud owner of my GT6.
Sadley it pretty much ends with the enthusiast's families. No one really knows about these cars, and at the end of the day 90s hondas and fords are old cars to kids now.

On a side note. Is it possible to frown while driving a Triumph?

 

[Brosky]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Is it possible to frown while driving a Triumph? [/QUOTE]

Only when they have a mind of their own and decide to do something that you had NOT planned on.

 

[Member 10617]

Seems to me that in the 1950s, many of the people driving these cars were youngsters. Now many of the people driving these cars are "oldsters." I suspect they are the same people.

I wonder how many people driving these cars now had some connection with them forty or fifty years ago?

If I am right, then in the future most of these cars will either be found in barns (garages), in junk heaps, or in car collections, and not on the road.

 

[tdskip]

Randy, SCAD in Savannah GA

Small world - my brother and sister in-law both went there.

 

[M_Pied_Lourd]

Well, one thing I always try to do with my car when I am showing at a show, is make my car a little more "hands on" for the kids. Usually, no matter what show I am at, there is usually a younger kid that is interested in my car soley because it is A. smaller than all the muscle cars and antiques at the show, B. It is a convertible. They have no idea what it is (although their parents sometimes know).

If the kid is genuinely interested, I usually ask if they want to sit in the car (with the parents approval of course). Once they are in the car, it is sometimes hard to get them out

Anyway, I am hoping that one or two of these kids when they are older will look back on their memories and remember sitting in a TR3A, 250 or 6...If nothing else, they will recognize the cars when they are older...

Cheers,
Tush

 

[DNK]

Tom , I take it your brother met his future wife there