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[Larry T (l02turner]

Hi Rick -
Nice to hear from you again!  Glad to  hear the TR3 is  up & running as you wanted - I remember us trading emails right after you bought it - I probably still have the photos you sent -- I'm finally almost finished with the full restoration of my '66 MGB - still need new tires and some exhaust work to put it on the road.   The EFI I installed on the 911 is still running great although I tend to tinker with it too much.  I always feel I can tweak it just a "little" bit better.  But I keep coming back to the baseline.

Glad to hear you're easing into retirement - sorry you live in Houston!  I was born in Orange (just S of Beamont) - and went back in the 70s for a grass roots refinery  - I could never get used to the heat!  We get a little of that high 90s and high 90's% humidity during the summer here in Va but you guys get it most of the time!  Sounds like you've made a great life for yourselves!  ;-)

What a great mixture you have in your "fleet" - your middle name should be "quirky" LOL -  from RR to TR3 - what a range of Brit machinery!  With a XKE thrown in for good measure....   you must feel like you are moving through time zones when going from one to the other!  HAHA...   And enough Italian horse flesh to keep your retirement exciting for many years to come.  Congrats!

Stay in touch -

LarryT

On 3/31/2012 9:14 AM, Rick Lindsay wrote:

Hi Friends,

Just read the digest - first time in months, if not years. Saw a post or two from friends I remember like BigHeadDennis, and references to Little Ricky and his half-Mondial. Can't remember which half he planned to buy...

Anyway, I thought I would say hi to old and new friends alike. Since joining Steve's list in 1996, a few things have changed. For one, I have gotten older. Many of you may relate. Here are a few other changes:

1. Kids are grown, educated, married, moved away and employed.

2. Nancy and I now live in Houston. Moved here in 2006.

3. Still good friends with Peter Henrys, my oldest FList friend from 1996. Also still close with Rui Gigante, Ric and Wendy Rainbolt, Phil Tegtmeier and Charles Perry, and occasionally chat with Lashdeep, Cap. Robert and others, if offline.

4. Still have the '79 308gtb that I bought with Phil's help in 1997, sold to Ric, bought back, and is now beautifully restored in silver with blue.

5. Sold the Mondial QV that I bought from Matt Boyd in about 2000, to Dave Craig, bought it back a few years ago. 2009 I think it was. Reversed the fuel injection federalizing back to the way God and Enzo intended, then after a year or so of enjoyment, sold it to a friend and fellow geophysicist at Exxon-mobil. That guy is now on a temporary (3 year) foreign assignment to Jakarta, and I'm keeping the car for him. Its getting fed and watered regularly.

6. After waiting 10 years, a lady sold me her one-owner ' 62 Triumph TR3. It was original but hadn't run in over a decade. Today it runs and looks great. It is "preserved" not restored. Only issue is that it is a very seasonal car in Houston. Often too wet in winter and ALWAYS too hot in summer. Beautiful and valuable car though.

7. At the bottom of the economic crunch, a friend back in Tulsa offered me a '69 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow at a well-below-wholesale price, and for some reason, I bought it. Yep, for some reason, I'm still a sucker for a quirky car.

8. Bought Nancy a '73 E-Type, again with Phil's help. Its the unloved car of the genera, being a V12, 2+2 automatic with A/C. Read: perfect for Nancy.

9. Just a couple of months ago I bought an '85 Testarossa, non-running with the fuel injection in a box in the trunk. Yep, still a sucker for a quirky deal. This is the car that Ric and Deep sold back and forth for years. Ric had grown tired of it and didn't finish the custom aftermarket FI he designed for it. I bought it with the EFI removed and set about restoring all the bits of the original Bosch FI. Today it runs great. We still don't know what caused the poor running earlier but it appears that while refurbishing the Bosch bits, some undiscovered malady was repaired. Read: luck, not skill.

10. I am switching to part-time work starting in July this year. I'll work 3-days a week for another 6 months then retire. After that we have some casual consulting/teaching plans - and a lot of time twisting spanners in the garage.

Thanks for the read.

-rick (not Ric, nor Little Ricky)

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