Date:         Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:08 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: At least we don't drive Triumphs.
Comments: To: levi hawkins <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
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They also made a small sedan. My dad got me one, blown tranny. He said check
the junkyards. Junkyards said, "A What?"

Mike

On 8/26/06 2:21 PM, "levi hawkins" <b1levi@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Anyone hear of a Peerless?
> Had one in the 70's....Triumph drive train, handmade tubular frame,  twin gas
> tanks between the siderails (had to step in about a foot before getting to the
> seat and footwell area), fiberglass body. Looked kinda like an early 60's
> aston martin. Never saw one before or since.
>
> Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote: Jim Felder wrote:
>> I had
>> a relapse in the early 90s when I did a ground up $$$ restoration on
>> an  MGA. It was still a piece of crap, and my 90 Vanagon was faster.
>
> My dad restored an MGB and a TD. Even after his best efforts, you still
> had to sling a net under them before driving to catch the parts that
> fell off.
>
> I somehow ended up with his Whitworth wrenches, sockets, taps and dies.
> I have no idea what happened to them.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
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