Sunday, October 31, 2010

Magnificent Obsession


My next door neighbor, of whom I have written several times before, has a most interesting “hobby”. It seems to be peaking a bit beyond hobby, but I leave it to you to be the judge of that.

I promised to be good to them in this post as I was offered free reign of the garage to take the photos and made sure I would do this with a reporter’s eye, and not that of an erstwhile comedian.

What you see is the garage and the driveway. A Black Jeep is currently missing from the photo and is stored at this moment elsewhere. The Jaguar, the BMW and the Acura are in the driveway and are in regular service, except that two will be stored through the winter. What remains, and the focus of this post, are what is in the garage and what is stored else where and not the four others.


In the garage, on the lift, we have a 1966 Triumph TR4a. (Yes, I said a lift!) Under that we have a 1964 Triumph TR4 with 26,000 miles on the odometer. This one comes with factory overdrive in case you were wondering.

On the right we have a 1975 Triumph TR6, the yellow one, which is running, is tagged and burns a bunch of oil but not unusual for a Triumph. In storage elsewhere are 2, 1969 Triumph TR6’s one with factory overdrive and one with after market overdrive and a 1974 Triumph TR6 with factory overdrive.

There was an old lady who had too many cats, if this sounds familiar. There is a theme here.



The car on the left, not theirs, is a 1965 TR4a, just to show you one all finished.

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