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Re: What's your *best* bit of Treasure?

To: "JC" <jc@gt6.co.uk>, "Triumph List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: What's your *best* bit of Treasure?
From: "John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 23:50:42 +0100

>I recently wrote: "We're about to start our house build here in Wiltshire,
>so I guess there won't be much activity on the car front for some time, but
>it's good to hoard this sort of gear (a PI set up)!!!"
>Hey, sounds like a new thread!
>" What is your best bit of Treasure?"
>Mine is a 2.5 lump in bits and an almost complete triple weber set up!
>What do you have hoarded, that you occasionally allow to see the light of
>day, but only to admire before away it's packed?


I've got two key treasure areas. One is 'Canley Girl' in duplicate - but in 
bits. In fact,
I've got so many bits, I haven't discovered what all of them are, even though 
I've had
them for over a year. The other treasure is in the 'tools' area. One genuine 
original
Standard Motor Company workbench. This was one of 500 made to an exacting Air 
Ministry
specification for the manufacture of Mosquito airframes in the war and is 
painted belly
blue. On the lower shelf, there is a toolbox that Dad had to make to hold all 
his service
tools before he was allowed out 'on the road' to service Standard cars in 1921. 
He also
had to make most of the tools in it and apart from my two sons, these are my 
greatest
treasure of all.

Jonmac


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