Um, regarding your outdoor storage- you do realize that moisture coming up
from the ground and condensation will get under the nice tarp, and cause
rust even in the most tightly wrapped body stored outside? (Can happen
indoors also- unless you have a concrete floor with a vapor barrier- i.e:
plastic sheet below concrete to keep moisture from penetrating the concrete
and passing through)
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry" <terryrs@adelphia.net>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:08 PM
Subject: Triumph on the Rocks
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I guess it's appropriate to comment on winter-as-a-TR3A owner.
>
> I confess: I am a flatlander. In New Hampshire terms, that means I came
from
> another state, California, where it snowed twice in my youth and they
> cancelled school both times. In fourth grade I made a snowman the time it
> snowed heavy, but it took all of Chet Linzer's cornfield to do it. We had
more
> earthquakes than snowstorms. I prefer the former.
>
> LBC content? Well, I'm not a total dope all the time, just when it comes
to
> this winter stuff. Since my garage is 38 acres of New England deciduous
> forest that I love three seasons a year, my restored TR3A frame is under
one
> tarp, the heavy canvas one, and my unrestored TR3A body tub under another,
> plastic tarp.
>
> The dopey part? ...I seem to have taken the trunk lid into the cellar,
along
> with the fenders, cowling, etc. So now it seems that the rain and snow
piled
> up, getting heavier and heavier, until the tarp sank into the trunk
(boot?),
> froze solid, and this mess of precipitation churned into one big block of
ice
> that is not going anywhere until next May, short of my taking a hairdryer
to
> it.
>
> Now, I know this won't cause long term harm to the tub, since I've now
covered
> it with plywood to alleviate more aggregious damage, and since the body
> work--ahem, substantial amounts of it--remains to be done. But alas it is
one
> last indignity this fine car must face, albeit less di-stink-tive than the
> three inches of racoon feces it was buried in when I found it in a shed
> broached by delinquent quasi-rodents bent on an anal sort of graffitti
> self-expression onto a backdrop of dignity.
>
> Ah well, this TR2A will scrabble its way back to glory again.
>
> Winter. Apologies, folks, ...but my winter sport...is whining about the
> cold.
>
> Thanks for listening (reading).
>
> Terry Smith
> New Hampshire (where I've just dug out from the second big storm in two
> weekends!) Life was simpler among the redwoods.
>
> TR3A TS 58667
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