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Archive for June, 2009

I bought my Baby brand new from the Triumph dealer in North Smithfield, Rhode Island on April 17, 1974 for a whopping $4,888.00. I was then a Naval Officer at the submarine base in New London, CT having left my old car behind in Hawaii.

For years she was my only car and a daily driver. The TR never was a very good car for commuting in the winter snow of northern Connecticut and somewhere about 1978 we got to the point where we had two other cars and the TR transitioned to a hobby and collector car. She’s been with me ever since residing in Connecticut, South Carolina and Arizona. She still has her original paint job and I have tried to keep her as close to original condition as possible.

In about 1998 I started doing some traveling for work in the power industry and was only able to drive the car during brief visits home. Eventually I let the time period between the exercise drives get too long and gummed up the carburetors. I bought the repair kits but why fix it as long as I was traveling so the kit just sat in the front seat – for about 8 years.

In the fall of 2008, I was able to get a full time job back in the Phoenix area. In early 2009, I contacted Bawb Branton at his C.A.R.S. shop in North Phoenix and finally in May 2009 she was back on the road at last.

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