How I got started with these pretty little Roadsters!

One day unannounced, Dad came home with a brand new Triumph, GT6+. It was so quick, it had a six cylinder motor, weighed about 2000 pounds or even less and looked to me like an XKE! What did I know? That year was 1970, I was a teenager. The next year, Dad bought a brand new 1971 MGB GT and the next year, a 1963 TR4 bought from the original owner, a U.S. serviceman who bought it in Spain. The red one, a 1967TR4A, was my daily driver, I was just out of school. It had a roll bar and cream colored wires. Those days there were many TR's running and we would flash the lights and wave as we do now but then it was a dozen times a day. These photos show some of the fun we had. They are all gone now, passed on to other owners, except for the 1963 TR4. That was the project car we got pretty deep into and so it carries the most memories. We started in NY. It's been to Florida for the break-in run after I rebuilt the motor back in 75. It was more recently in California for 10 years when I relocated for a job in the S.F. Bay Area. And now we're back east, outside of Philly. Today, I am still touring the hills of Pennsylvania in that throaty little 4, and it runs as good as it ever did.