COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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jeremyc said:
to further weird you out, i have seen what i think is you in that car. You live somewhere in my bit of cheshire i think.Blown2CV said:
to further weird you out, i have seen what i think is you in that car. You live somewhere in my bit of cheshire i think.
You are unlikely to have seen me in the Elan in Cheshire. I'm the other end of the country, and previously it spent it's time in the North East (mostly tucked up in a garage 
).However, the Defender did start it's life in Cheshire back in 2005 ...
jeremyc said:
Blown2CV said:
to further weird you out, i have seen what i think is you in that car. You live somewhere in my bit of cheshire i think.
You are unlikely to have seen me in the Elan in Cheshire. I'm the other end of the country, and previously it spent it's time in the North East (mostly tucked up in a garage ).However, the Defender did start it's life in Cheshire back in 2005 ...
Yertis said:
Allan L said:
A pedant he say that the car in the illustration is a Triumph 18TR, or 1800 Roadster, and would have a chassis number in the TRD1*** series.
Isn't it the case that the TR2 was so-named as the successor to this thing? I just think of it as "Bergerac's Car".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_TR1_/_20TS
On a related issue, back in the 1980s we were driving along with an old family friend when he nonchalantly remarked "Oh look, there's a TR".
Expecting a TR6 or something, we looked round to see a brand new Ferrari Testarossa (long before the 512TR was launched).
LotusOmega375D said:
Yertis said:
Allan L said:
A pedant he say that the car in the illustration is a Triumph 18TR, or 1800 Roadster, and would have a chassis number in the TRD1*** series.
Isn't it the case that the TR2 was so-named as the successor to this thing? I just think of it as "Bergerac's Car".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_TR1_/_20TS
On a related issue, back in the 1980s we were driving along with an old family friend when he nonchalantly remarked "Oh look, there's a TR".
Expecting a TR6 or something, we looked round to see a brand new Ferrari Testarossa (long before the 512TR was launched).
jeremyc said:
Blown2CV said:
to further weird you out, i have seen what i think is you in that car. You live somewhere in my bit of cheshire i think.
You are unlikely to have seen me in the Elan in Cheshire. I'm the other end of the country, and previously it spent it's time in the North East (mostly tucked up in a garage ).However, the Defender did start it's life in Cheshire back in 2005 ...
Yertis said:
daveenty said:
TR4man said:
Fat lot the owner knows if he thinks that is a TR.
Possibly just using an abbreviation for what it really is?
Yertis said:
Allan L said:
A pedant he say that the car in the illustration is a Triumph 18TR, or 1800 Roadster, and would have a chassis number in the TRD1*** series.
Isn't it the case that the TR2 was so-named as the successor to this thing? Quick history lesson.
To begin at the beginning, for all intent and purposes, there was no TR1. This is because there only was one TR1 ever built. This was a prototype car built in 1952 that was identified as the 20TS, but as the TR series developed it became known as the TR1.Effectively, the TR series cars began with the TR2.
Here is a picture of 20TS, or the TR1 as it was later called. Even I admit that it has the looks that only a mother could love, although you can see elements of the later sidescreen TRs in the shape.
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