Hey Marvin,
Good luck on your TR6 Resto. Oh bye the way I 've got this really old 69
Tr6 that I have been restoring for about 3 years now. What I'm getting at is
this, I'm a few thou. short. There's been this penalty for cashing in my
son's college fund, and my bank won't let me refinance my work cars again,
and I've already gone through my refinanced house mortgage money. I really
believe in restoring old cars, so could you spare a few Thou: ha, could ya ?
Also, do you have an A type overdrive ,you could throw in?
Thanks alot,
Phil Smith
Needy TR6 Person.
-----Original Message-----
From: mefoster <mefoster@airmail.net>
To: vtr@autox.team.net <vtr@autox.team.net>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: TR6 restoration
>
>mefoster wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm considering buying a TR6 and restoring it to something reasonably
>> approaching
>> mint condition. That's my fantasy anyway.
>
>vafred@erols.com wrote:
>
>> Save a whole bunch of money, and many sleepless nights, and buy one
>> already restored.
>
>Bill Sohl wrote:
>
>> Marvin,
>>
>> Consider buying a car with the BEST body, interior
>> and cosmetic condition you can. Body work and other
>> cosmetic restoration is far more expensive than
>> any mechanical rebuilds.
>>
>> Bill Sohl
>
>I appreciate the advice very much. That is the option a smart person would
>take, but at the risk of sounding corny, my objective has less to do with
>avoiding spending money than it does with rescuing something beautiful from
>oblivion. In the case of buying a car that's already restored, well,
whoever
>restored it thought it was worth the trouble and expense. Why shoudn't I
>consider doing the same? I can say this with confidence about every TR6 I
have
>seen so far: either someone is going to restore this car at some point or
it
>is going to end up in a junk yard. I don't have a big problem with spending
>more for restoration work than the car is "worth" because I'm doing this
for
>myself. Based on previous experience maintaining a '66 Spitfire I don't
think
>stripping out a TR6 myself and putting it back together would be that
>difficult. My main obstacle at this time is that I don't have the knowledge
or
>equipment to do body work myself. I need to either find a good restoration
>shop or (as a friend is doing) take the auto body repair course at a local
>community college. There are plenty of restoration shops listed in the
phone
>book here. Unfortunately all of my past experiences with body shops
(collision
>work, not restoration) have been unsatisfactory. Hope I'm not offending
>anyone, but body shops do incredibly sloppy work. I'm sorta hoping to get
some
>opinions on local restoration shops, although it's possible that there's no
>one on this list that has had any experience with them.
>
>Anyway, thanks again for the input.
>
>Marvin Foster
>
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