Powder Blue over blue. What we have here is a Triumph TR3A, commission number TS70436 L, built by the Standard Motor Company in Coventry and delivered new to the United States as a left-hand drive car. Going by the cars built around her, VIN wise, she left the line in early 1960. Her Dutch registration papers say 1962, but that is the date she was first registered, not built; she is a 1960 car.

Open the glovebox and a piece of her story is still taped to the lid: a Texas insurance card, valid from September 81' to September 82'. She lived her American life under the Texas sun until she came to Holland in 1996, where she was fully restored in the years that followed, engine included.

Wide grille, cut-away doors you can rest your elbow on, and a 2-litre four that pulls from nothing. Simple, honest, and a absolute joy on a dutch dyke road.