Andy wrote:

> Blinky the Shark said...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2008 02:26:10p, Dimitri told us...
>>
>>>> Had several week long meetings in Scottsdale at the Fairmont.
>>>>
>>>> You know you've arrived when on the way there are no Chevy not Ford
>>>> Dealers, Just Mercedes, Beemer, Porsche, Jag. etc.
>>>>
>>>> Just a little out of my league.
>>>
>>> LOL! You must have blinked when you passed the dealership that sells
>>> Bentleys and Aston-Martins. :-)
>>
>> From 1983 through 2005 my daily driver was a Triumph TR7. British
>> Racing Green, of course. From 1985 to about 2003, only one mechanic
>> worked on it (well, he and his boss, my friend that ran that
>> one-mechanic British-cars-only shop). When my friend retired, my
>> mechanic went elsewhere -- to a Jag shop by name, and it was mostly Jags
>> in fact. The first time I went there, to stick with my mechanic, I
>> popped in without
> an
>> appointment for something relatively minor. The bays were full of cars
>> I could not afford, including, IIRC three XKEs. After a chat with
>> the owner, he said he could take a look at my car, and to let him move
> another
>> one out of a bay for me. The car that came out and got parked was an
> Aston
>> Martin. I shivered. And yeah, I really *couldn't* afford that shop.
>>
>
>
> A teenage friend had your Triumph. I think it spent more time in the shop
> than on the road. But it looked great standing still anyway!!!

I got the good one. Very reliable.

When I did need some small part, the pimpleface at the NAPA (or whatever)
parts store, when I said "for a Triumph TR7", would go, "We don't do
motorcycle parts."

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