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RE: TR5 on Ebay

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Subject: RE: TR5 on Ebay
From: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:01:40 -0700
> There's a "TR5" advertised on Ebay
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2421256437
> by Wayne of Triumphs Only (formerly in San Jose, now in Stockton, Calif.).
> Wasn't this car advertised a while back as a converted TR250 without a
> title? (New York title from one of the services??) Does that engine number
> compute? He doesn't mention a data plate and as I recall it was missing on
> the previously advertised 250.
> Is this one a fake or real?

I'm no TR5 expert, but it seems unlikely to me that Wayne would be
advertising a fake as real, if he knew that's what it was.  The commission
number is that of a TR5.  Faking a Vehicle Identification Number is a felony
in California, and he could hardly hope that  a fake would go undetected
forever.

The engine block appears to be from a later PI TR6, late 1973, according to
Piggott.

Randall

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