Many years after that first one, I bought a '62 1600 MKII. Sold it before we moved to Idaho, and now I do bikes, and no room in the garage for another toy. Too many hobbies as it is!
I had a '65 Triumph Spitfire, the 4 wheeled kind of Triumph, while I had my 305 Superhawk. Young men and their fascination with machinery... I probably wouldn't even fit in a Spitfire today.
I had a '65 Triumph Spitfire, the 4 wheeled kind of Triumph, while I had my 305 Superhawk. Young men and their fascination with machinery... I probably wouldn't even fit in a Spitfire today.
Lol!
My dad had a GT-6. Yellow, with a black interior. In Fresno, California, where it's 100+ all summer long. And no air conditioning. And he tried to drive it to work every day. The car didn't last too long, unfortunately. But, it was a looker!
My dad had a GT-6. Yellow, with a black interior. In Fresno, California, where it's 100+ all summer long. And no air conditioning. And he tried to drive it to work every day. The car didn't last too long, unfortunately. But, it was a looker!
Those were neat looking, kind of a poor man's XKE. At least their hardtop roofs didn't leak...
Little story about the Spitfires - their steering rack and pinion was fastened to the front frame crossmember with two U-bolts; mine came loose going over a railroad track once and suddenly I was spinning the wheel back and forth with little effect as the rack just slid back and forth through the u-bolts, but got the car stopped safely as it wandered onto the shoulder. Was easy to see what happened, and I carried a little roll up tool bag, so centered the steering wheel and tightened down the U-bolts and it didn't affect the alignment. Was lucky I was going slow in town. Those were really basic cars, not really anything fancy or exotic in their engineering.
MGAs were the same...simple as a hammer. Guys doing "spare no expense" restorations would commit the sin of making the car better than when it rolled off the assembly line.
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