Nov 27 2009
Found this cool Triumph TR6 Hot Wheel at Target today while browsing the toy department. Well, more like digging through all the cars than browsing, but still! Nice little model to add to my collection of toy British cars. And if you didn’t know it, yes, I am just a big kid at heart.
Oct 23 2009
Finally was able to bring the car home from storage. With some help from my son and his best buddy the Triumph is now happily snug in the garage.
Hmmm…. think I may name this car "Lydia"!
Sep 22 2009
New magazine just came! Sad, but not much makes me happier than getting in a fresh issue of a car magazine from England. Guess what I will be doing this evening? I wish I could afford to get more of them or subscribe to a few, but they are extremely expensive on this side of the Atlantic.
And if you at all interested in cars like this, please check out my British car site at JustBritish.com. I also have sites dedicated to my 1973 MG Midget and 1962 Triumph TR4.
Jan 30 2008
I have a site for those muddle masses among us who are British car fans. It is JustBritish and I have been running it for a few years now. Why I am mentioning it now is that I have just finished the first thrust of a major redesign. If you are so inclined, and I hope you are, I would be most grateful if you would visit the site and let me know what you think.
I have been a British car fan since I was a young boy. I think the very first car I ever fell in love with was an MG TC. To me it was more than a car, it was a that most hackneyed of expressions, a rolling sculpture. I built at least two models of TCs during the young summers when I kept repeatedly breaking my leg. Later on, after finally getting a license and a job with enough money to warrant a car, my first car was a 1971 MG B GT. I always loved the look of the hardtop GTs a bit more than the convertible Bs.
Due to only having enough money to buy the car but not to have it worked on when it needed help, I learned to work on my own cars. This was something totally out of the norm for me or most of my family. But I loved it. I ended up working for a foreign car parts shop, learning more than I can ever imagine from the owner who became a life long friend, and starting down that long road to car fanaticism. Along the way I started the British Car Club of Charleston (still in existence 25 years later), met some of the most amazing people, owned more old British relics than I had years on my body, and found a wife who would put up with all this!
But, back to the site. I have been working on this site with forums and events and classifieds and such for many years. Recently though I have decided that I need to really do something with it. And so … the site redesign. I have started by making the main site a blog. I have a few more things to do there, but once complete I will move on to refining, and hopefully speeding up, the forums. And then from there who knows!
So, if you can spare a moment, please stop by. And if you are “one of us”, please sign up for the news feed, leave a note, and become a regular. Most of the cars are small, but there is always room for one more.
Nov 22 2007
If such is the way of your country, I hope that you and yours have a great Thanksgiving. I am spending the day with family, actually probably the weekend, so am just stealing a few minutes away for a quick post. Oh, and by the way, I actually saw some wild turkeys this morning! I was driving down a remote road heading to the store to get a paper when I saw all these birds off the side of the road. At first I thought they were buzzards, but on second look they turned out to be wild turkey! How many people can say they saw actually wild turkeys on Thanksgiving day?!
First, I am wondering how many of you are going shopping tomorrow in the infamous “Black Friday” shopping frenzy? I probably actually will be, but more to people watch and get out of the house than to shop. I may or may not end up buying anything as it will just depend on what I happen across and what strikes my fancy.
Also, if you are an automotive person so inclined, please stop by my British car site at http://www.JustBritish.com. I am currently working on some revisions to the home page and general site look and feel. What you see there now is the old stuff. Hopefully the version will go live before the weekend is out.
And finally a word about politics. Does it seem that the rhetoric is starting to get nasty and become exactly what all the candidates said it wouldn’t be? Doesn’t it seem that the extremely polarizing positioning is starting and accelerating? Is there any hope at all?
