I know I've told ya this before Mike, but if they would've had that paint color for the 2002 models when I bought my Cardinal Red BA in late 2001, my sales order and receipt from South Bay Triumph of Lomita CA would've read one Triumph Bonneville America in Caspian Blue, instead!

(...btw, I gotta ask...at that 11,312 ft in elevation there, did that beautiful carburetor-equipped Triumph o' yours feel like it had maybe 30bhp TOPS when ya got there???)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)