Wow! Thanks for all the responses!

All of your comments pretty much sum up what I had been thinking, from what I have heard over the years. Certainly these cars are for weekends, and not really to be used as primary vehicles. A vintage M-B serves this purpose much better. Like my 73. It is great, if expensive to fill up all the time (that lovely V8...)

While a 107 chassis SL would be a brilliant combo of weekday reliability and weekend fun, there was something completely intoxicating about opening up the twin SU's on that TR3 in second gear, and bringing the tail out with the throttle exiting a curve.

If you haven't, go find one to drive- then drive home in your Mercedes-Benz of course...

Cheers,

JAS

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