ROAD & TRACK: Peter Egan meets the wicked TVR Griffith. I miss his regular columns, but this bit is a nice taste:

As we hummed along the four-lane highway at 75 mph or so, I looked around myself at the Miata and said, “This thing is really running nice. Still feels like a new car. How many miles do you have on it?”

“Just turned 140,000,” Chris said.

“Any trouble with it?”

“No.”

After a while I started chuckling to myself, and Chris asked what was so funny.

“I was thinking about my first TR-3…” I told him.

Then Chris started to grin, and pretty soon we were both chuckling. The concept of 140,000 miles without trouble is always a source of mirth to British car guys.

Yeah, you could knock a zero off that. Perhaps one day I’ll write about how my brother drove a Sunbeam Rapier across the Sahara Desert. Well, most of the way across.