Waiting for the snow…

well, ’They’ say it’s gonna snow here…here meaning Ol Fair Oaks…I’m taking one of those I’m from Missouri stands on it howsumever ’n I’ll believe it when I see the white stuff in the air…it could happen….but I don’t think we’ll see it on the ground….

I recall one time when we lived over on Montcurve (‘bout a mile away)…it wuz early evening, around dinnertime, I think, when the word began to spread that it wuz snowing ’n we, along with most of the neighbors, came outside to stand in the street ’n watch the snowflakes as they drifted around…I don’t remember any of them ever actually hitting the ground…I do remember Ron Buehler standing in the street ’n offering me a glass of wine…I believe he wuz drinking Gallo Hearty Burgundy at the time…

Ron had a ’62 TR3….it wuz technically, I think, a TR3B which means that it wuz a TR3 body but a TR4 underneath…Triumph Motors wuz big on doing that…didn’t like to waste money…made for some interesting models however, ‘specially when an owner went looking for replacement parts…..back in those halycon daze, I owned for a couple years, a ’57 TR3…interesting model year as there wuz an early model ’n a late model ’n both of them looked the same on the outside…the early model using up all the parts that had been left over from the ’56 model year….

When reminiscing about my little Triumph, I generally describe it as being the best and the worst little car I ever owned…it wuz certainly the most fun being essentially an oversized skateboard that you cudn’t find parts for this side of the Atlantic Ocean…

The last year I owned it, the canvas top shredded so bad, I just threw it away ’n went topless….