There's an interesting video on utube taken at a Haggerty sponsored
seminar in Scottsdale about survivor, or unrestored, cars. There is
even some guy in the audience that keeps asking questions about British
cars and Triumphs. Maybe he owns a TR250. Maybe he's on this list. Maybe
he's back from Triumphest..
The video is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WlNWVhOUMI&feature=player_embedded
Bob
On 9/21/2011 3:04 PM, terryrs at comcast.net wrote:
> I would add just one element to what's been discussed. That's the definition
> of "restored."
>
> The automatic assumption is often that when a car is "restored," followed by
> any number of adjectives suggesting immaculate attention to detail, the car
> is like new. Don't be surprised by the shakedown bugs you'll find as you
> drive it for any length of time. These are often invisible to concourse
> judges, but can leave one coughing distractedly into one's fist at the side
> of the road when one finds, for instance, that one should have used a pliable
> red wire instead of bigger rigid stranded wire from the alternator
> conversion, to find the wire broke because of vibration.
>
> When one finds one, one fixes one, then two, then three. My sister describes
> my experience with my '68 MGB in college as "his torso under the hood, his
> butt in the air."
>
> Three-quarters cool, one quarter embarrasment. But I'd rather be embarrassed
> with a cool car than yawning in a modern compact.
>
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
> New Hamsphire
>
>
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