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Re: Do I hear $40,000?

To: "Jim Hill" <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Do I hear $40,000?
From: " Philip Smith" <smith007@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:46:55 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
References: <0A76ED68F5BDD311BB0F00A0C949970A0D354E@chsra4.chsra.wisc.edu>
I agree, I have very close to that also, and I'm not finished yet either. I
wish that I had put the $ in AOL back when, so now I could buy the 30K and
the 40k TR6's.
Phil Smith
TR6
Car Really for sale
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 12:36 PM
Subject: Do I hear $40,000?


>
>
> Regarding the Canadian TR6 FI for sale on Ebay, Bill Miller wrote:
>
> >Very nice car, not near worth what he's
> >asking (IMHO), but a very nice car none the less...
>
> Am I the only person on this list who's not offended by someone trying to
> sell what appears to be an _extremely_ well restored FI TR6 in a national
> market for some $20k USD?
>
> If the time you've spent restoring your car has any value at all, it
> wouldn't be difficult to have $20k or more in parts and time tied up in a
> car that's that well done (and, again, I'm assuming for the moment that
it's
> really as nice as it looks in the pictures).
>
> I bought my TR6 for $2500 and spent three years restoring it. When I look
> back at all the $ spent on parts, all the time I spent on it and the cost
of
> engine and body work I couldn't do myself . . . well, $20,000 doesn't
sound
> so outrageous.
>
> Jim Hill
> Madison WI


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