Wait, this is a soaring forum, how the heck did we segue to Lucas
stuff?............ ;-)

Buddy of mine arrived at the airport on Sunday in a TR-6. Whoa, says I,
last time I rode in one of those (1987) it caught on fire!

College buddy of mine had a TR-4 for about a year. When it ran it was great
fun, those times it ran w/o drama...which didn't include the time smoke &
flames shot from the steering column while he was merging onto a
heavily-traveled 4-lane interstate, and another time a rear wire wheel
overtook the car (fortunately, at slow speed in a housing development).
Funnily enough, the steering column short "cured itself" after a short,
ignition-off, head-scratching/recovery spell on the shoulder; no previously
extant electrical gremlins ever subsequently noted! Ah, the good-ol' days of
cotton-insulated wiring (already brittle by 1972!).

And, yes, he was reluctant to drive it at night...

Unfortunately, he never took up soaring.

Bob W.

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