h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You forgot recharged . Pulling the top down on the TR6, which I assume is a car of sorts, sounds good - can't argue with that.
Waz

Now there's a woman's intuition firing at 100% efficiency.
Yes it is a car.

But it's not a 'Mercedes Benz' as google might have you believe when it brings up this site:
http://www.superior-watchstraps.co.uk/Straps/Tread/pages/TR6.htm
If you look closely you can see the words 'Mercedes Benz' and the MB three-pointed-star logo on this chronograph - a curious (perhaps uninformed) pirating and hybridisation of two distinct auto legends to sell a watch. TR6 was a British two seater sports car built by Triumph of England and has nothing to do with Mercedes.

I don't have a picture of mine but it looks sorta like this:
http://www.tr6gallery.com/cars/Unknown/tr6.JPG.html
or these:
http://www.tr6gallery.com/years/1976.html
but mine's white and has a roll bar like the one on the right here:
http://www.fot-racing.com/tr6/


~jwf~

A TR6 is a rocket-powered Kamikaze roller skate, for those who think Mini Coopers are effeminate.
It was manumissioned by the Triumph company, during those wonderful years when British Leyland was doing it's best to make sure that the UK would soon be bereft of any auto makers, if it had anything to say about it...
Or was that the Rootes group... another fine group of businessmen and overpaid CEOs?

Paint It Black!

"TR6 was a British two seater sports car built by Triumph of England (sounds like a race horse or a corgi!) ((not the model cars))and has nothing to do with Mercedes."

Well, thass not rezactly true. Both companies were begun by Deutschlanders!

"Now there's a woman's intuition firing at 100% efficiency.
Yes it is a car. "

Now you got him started...



It is not a car.
It is a skateboard with a transmission...

THIS is a car...
http://www.3wheelers.com/dymaxion.html

"I want to put the top down on my TR6 and see how the real world has changed in the four years since I got online and discovered h2g2."

You won't truly learn that until you get the bottom down on your TR6.

Watch them shock mounts, they can be full of surprises!

http://www.tr6gallery.com/cars/Unknown/tr6.JPG.html

Hmm. I guess yours doesn't come with the same bag an baggage...

Nor the custom duct tape...

Does it have that silly flag of origin by the taillight?

That started something alright

I see it is a car. Of sorts.

The dymaxion on the other hand is more than car, it's a ship of the highway. I so want a car with a periscope.

Old cars are much better driving. With today's cars you might as well be sitting in an arm chair. You can't feel the road, or the speed or even the turns. The oldest car I've driven was a Renault Frigate.

Waz

>> Does it have that silly flag... <<

Yes. One on each side. It only works on a white car.
Yes, you're correct to call it silly on the red, black, blue, British Racing Gree... No wait it looks OK on 'true' British Racing Green but none of the other rather flat 1960s primary colours. Yellow was popular and the flags look really silly on that.

Between the mid 1950s and the mid 1960s, Triumphs were developed by Standard Triumph Motor Co. through a series of cars from the TR2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, all of which were raced and improved by racing, especially high speed endurance racing at Le Mans. The car was built to run all day and night averaging over 100 mph, safely and economically. Few cars could do this in those days.

By the time British Leyland had taken over most of the smaller independent car companies, the TR6 was as near to perfection as was technically possible for the day. So they didn't change it. Except to put those silly flags on, and in the 1970s, perhaps as a tribute to disco, they added some day-glo 'racing stripes' decals to the side of most of the cars that were America bound. Really tacky.

By 1976, British Leyland was in real trouble and it was the last year that the TR6 was sold. The TR-7 developed by British Leyland was designed to be more contemporary in fashion and by being devalued in content, more cost effective and profitable. When the bean counters had finished taking all the value of its performance and handling they let the Village People style the body for the disco-dancing gucci-wearing shallowness of the 1970s. It was fashionable for about a year. And generally a dangerous, underpowered car.

When sales went in the toilet because the '7' was not a further evolution of the series, British Leyland 'listened' to the complaints about a lack of performance and decided the solution was to stuff a big V8 into it, like the Shelby Cobra success. They called this monstrosity the TR8, a twitchy, uncontrollable, front-heavy rust bucket that could spin its tires until the axles snapped. Bad design, a shameful end to a once proud and glorious tradition.

Those of us to whom falls the responsibilty of upholding the Triumph legend as custodians of their greatest achievement (the 1976 TR6) are honour bound to maintain the respect of these classics. We do not like to speak of any car that British Leyland called a Triumph after the TR6, because they are not real Triumphs, just cheap British Leyland crap with no soul and no value except fraudulent and disposable 70s American values.

~jwf~

Here's to the TR6 . I drove a Ford Zodiac a few times too - lots of chrome, and wings and a louvre blind on the back window . Nice but not for everyday.


I found a perfect companion for the Lincoln School skeleton, but it's an old one and has been AGG/Gag'd already. Does that matter, what's the CAC policy on that if there is one? It's A821170. The one about converting your dearest departed into diamonds.

I also have 'Cleaning products, Weight loss and you' A954885 in mind. There's a connection of sorts.
Waz

Since the AGG/GAGs have never been reprinted, unlike some recirculating gags in The Post, and several generations have been born since their inception, I have no problem with AGGarization, particularly if it will allow you to slap together an issue with less problem.

I apologize for my inability to deal with this in a responsible manner at the moment. Uvula was in the ER on Sunday Morning, given an IV and a shot and sent home. She's resting up for a couple of days.
I am a bit occupied trying to get her to function more like a recovering sick person than an born-again teenage.

Whatever you say, John...
On the whole, I'd rather have a Studebaker Grande Turismo Hawk or a Bentley Continental R... or a Morgan of any type...

Does your '6' have the import nerf bumpers?

http://www.philseed.com/renault-fregate.html

For some strange reason, the web sites prefer to use a different vowel in the front of the name.

I have never heard of it.

Me Father once owned a 4cv for a couple of months until he whacked it into a ditch. The insurance charlies totalled it and he bought a Dauphine. Viva la Putt-Putt!

http://www.ritzsite.net/63Stude/1963_Studebaker_Gran_Turismo_Hawk_f3q.JPG

Just getting caught up after a prolonged absense, so....
Where are we on upcoming CACC? If needed I can have one together by tomorrow morning, otherwise I'm going to take a little more time with it. Also, when cobbling together some CACC, do I copy the entry before or after I get the author's permission (providing they aren't Elvis), and do I really need permission to CACC somebody's work? One last question, is there an official template to use for issues, or can I just re-use my first attempt's surgically altered final GML? Final edit to be left to , of course.

I'm about to get off work, so I won't get any replies until tonight around 11pm (GMT-5). I usually have about four hours online a night, so putting together a last minute issue won't be a problem.

I have checked out both

A821170
A954885

and they are nice short friendly entries that should have generated more conversation than they have. To my recollection, neither has been featured before.


~jwf~

>> ...what's the CAC policy on that if there is one? <<

Policy is such a harsh and ugly word. It is based on 'police' and suggests that established routines are based on a police mentality, the insidious leading edge of a police state. So we don't have policies.

There is the <./>AggGag-Archives</.> which shows, on one single page, the titles of every piece featured in our first 42 issues. The AggGag/Cac and CAC-C archives maintained by require more searching. But such a search would suggest an adherence to, or compliance with, a 'policy', which we simply will not abide.

It is my sincere belief that any entry worthy of multiple promotions is an entry worthy of multiple promotions. The best always seem to float to the surface again and again. So be it!

peace
~jwf~

[ Any weirdness of a discontuinty kind which you may percieve in the logical order of above two postings is a result of their appearing in reverse order than what was intended. I blame this on trying to keep my thoughts organised in a public environment - the Library - on a strange computer. ]

Yo, Sneaky.
Good to have you back.
We always need new issues. It's an insatiatable need. Now that I am only able to get online from the Library I will not be as productive (or readily available) so the more, the very much merrier.

Getting permission is mostly a courtesy and never essential. In most cases folks are delighted to have our attention to their work. But do leave a note attached to the original entry saying that you intend to use it even if it looks like there will be no reply.

Making a copy over which you have editorial control is always a good idea (especially to avoid future broken links) but not always necessary or expedient. My last two issues linked directly to the originals but I did have contact with the authours and made them aware that while they could still edit, add to or otherwise make improvements, they should never delete them.

Any of the recent issues are OK to copy as a template.
See: A2198045

peace
jwf

Sounds rough tr.

I spelt Frégate the franglais way - which explains why the only picture I found was a dinky car on ebay. The ones you found are a big improvement on the scruffy black and white photocopy of a magazine one that someone at work found. I spent so much time polishing that car for extra pocket money...ours was maroon and cream, and, I think, the 1959 version.

Sorry about the 'p' word jwf. Should have said conv...no you wouldn't have one of those either. Erm, gui...no. Thumbru...no, that won't do at all.

Ok, I get it! Anything goes! That can't be right, I can't handle no ru...nearly said it there. Spitting! No Spitting. You've got to have that one. Thank goodness for that. The universe is back to normal - I've got my limit. I can cope now.

I think.

Waz

PS Hi sneaky. I've got a CAC in the making but nothing down on screen yet.

Well, I guess I'll just have to cobble somehting together tonight and see what the reaction is. I have an idea or two from when I did the reject issue so it shouldn't be too hard. All I need to do is to steal me some GML real quick....