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is he America's Clarkson?
He's completely unknown over here. How did he make his money?
He was well-started into the Vincent and Brough scene as soon as his budget allowed. This is a favorite magazine I've had since new in Mar-April 1987, with him on the cover and pics of his machines that he already had at that time. He has always seemed like a well-disciplined but relatively normal & genuine gear head who has made the best of his success. Still, it makes me think about and appreciate being able to enjoy my machines in anonymity. Everything has a cost.
Wow!! check out page 49 3rd down on the right. Loved that magazine, still have the T-150 sold the T-160 3-can you drive a european car in america1/2 yrs. ago Same bike, same me you can even see my pony tail sticking out over my left shoulder!!
Very, very cool, Geoff. For the others here who don't have the same magazine that you and I do-I got my copy during a local sports car club meeting, when I was daily driving my 1962 Triumph TR3B. The article about Mark Gerish, his old cast iron English Wheel & the building of Leno's AC Cobra clone really got my attention. Figured if he could shape panels like that, so could I. 30 yrs later- almost to the day from when I got that magazine- I finally got my own cast iron English Wheel. Hopefully it won't take 30 more yrs to be good enough to use it to restore the body on my same TR3B....
I have 10 issues I bought hot off the press way back. issue #1 Spring 1986. Grew up on LI-NY in the sporty car world. My God Father Mr. MG David Ash & my Dad Frank Ahrens Sebring 12hr. 1953 Dad co-driver David in the car. Get that TR back on the road!! The pix of me I'm standing in front of my 03 Bonny I bought new.
I'm a huge fan of Jay Leno's Garage. ,,,,,, I get the sense he's a genuinely nice guy. ,,,,,, You can see it getting a little awkward for Jay when it becomes apparent that the celeb actually knows squat.
Man, that's really cool. No formal race heritage connections here, just regular stuff. Dad dropped out of college, joined the Army and ended up in Germany in 58. Bought a new light blue 58 TR3A because he couldn't justify the extra $$ for the mint green 1958 AH 3000 next to it.. From then on, it was TR3's and Triumph all the way. He drove it all over Europe, came home on the ship with it and went back to college in 60. Drove it year round in VT. Hated the new body on the TR4, so eventually found this almost new red 62/63 late TR3B (with TR4 driveline) in early Feb 64 in NH to replace the rusty 3A. Pic from Feb 64 with both cars, just after arriving home with the 3B-The light blue TR was continuously driven year round into a rusty VT oblivion. The red TR became their/our summer car. along the way, a white 1960 TR3a parts car joined them in the basement. Our childhood was spent "racing" the white and blue cars when we weren't actually riding in the red TR during the snow-free months. The others went away. I Got my license, turned 16 in April 83 and started driving the red TR in early June 83. The pic with white walls was taken early summer 83 here in SC. Next pic with top down and my red Doberman is probably 84. Pretty sure the top hasn't been up since then, just a tonneau. Lots to time to polish the car back then....It's been parked in a back corner now for 20 yrs, waiting it's turn. Dad didn't fix things unless someone else (aka me) did it for him for free, parts & labor included (Guzzi content...) I inherited it when he died about 7 yrs ago. Someday after eldercare is done, I would like to put it back on the road. A lot of people now really don't understand the vintage sports car (or bike) driving & performance experience. It's not all about max HP and torque in an insular package. Always thought it was cool to read articles about Jay Leno back then, talking about various mechanical experiences. It definitely seemed like he was into the machines long before he could afford them. Watching him become successful and still do a wide range of machines was very cool. You read about other celebs like Jerry Seinfeld and his Porschesor Paul Newman (he & his wife were/are members at the city club where I apprenticed as a chef)) but never about how most spent time as a kid or now gladly dirty/greasy working on such things.
so neat you still have the TR!!! whats the Shovelhead story??