- 1. triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:00:10 -0600 (CST)
- Can someone address this question? How come we can get 8 or 9 thousand dollar hyundia's but we can't get 8 or 9 thousand dollar cars like that with the top cut off? I don't understand.......it seems
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00671.html (7,214 bytes)
- 2. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:01:20 -0700
- Because it would look and drive like a Hyundai with the roof cut off.... <smile> Cheers. -- Michael D. Porter Roswell, NM [mailto: mporter@zianet.com] `70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly) `71 GT6 Mk.
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00672.html (8,305 bytes)
- 3. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:19:06 -0600
- From Gary Nafziger <naffy at netins.net> off? Well, yeah. What was one of the greatest sellers in the old days? Sprite. Just as cheap as little sedan. No bells and whistles. Just a plain roadster. Th
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00673.html (8,142 bytes)
- 4. triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:13:00 -0500
- Message text written by Gary Nafziger How come we can get 8 or 9 thousand dollar hyundia's but we can't get 8 or 9 thousand dollar cars like that with the top cut off? < Perhaps it's because it is ch
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00679.html (7,908 bytes)
- 5. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:11:31 -0500
- What you'd get would be a Geo Metro convertible! Remember them? Not really a sports car, so it falls into a niche that appeals to very few people. Most people (like yourself I assume) want that roads
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00684.html (8,604 bytes)
- 6. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:53:05 +0000
- Most cars today are Unibody and cutting off the top ruins the integrity of car. It is very much more difficult to make a sturdy convertible than a hard top and is not uncommon for the convertible to
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00690.html (8,961 bytes)
- 7. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:37:31 -0500
- Message text written by Joe Curry car.< Exactly! The TR7 (or 8) convertible is heavier than the coupe. Due to the additional reinforcement needed to compensate for the lack of the roof. And it still
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00692.html (7,704 bytes)
- 8. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:28:51 EST
- Some of that might have to do with the fact that the TR7 wasn't designed to be a convertible. Surprising considering the country of origin, but not surprising at a time when it was believed proposed
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00703.html (8,342 bytes)
- 9. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:36:40 +0000
- Indeed they are, but they were designed as a convertible. If they were designed to be a hard top, they undoubtedly would have been lighter and the bracing components would have been designed differen
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00705.html (8,372 bytes)
- 10. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:39:08 +0000
- Some of that might have to do with the fact that the TR7 wasn't designed to be a convertible. Surprising considering the country of origin, but not surprising at a time when it was believed proposed
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00706.html (8,164 bytes)
- 11. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:22:15 -0600
- Most cars today are Unibody and cutting off the top ruins the integrity of car. It is very much more difficult to make a sturdy weigh much more than its hardtop counterpart. True. But cheap, rigid un
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00707.html (8,176 bytes)
- 12. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:23:32 -0600
- From Joe Curry <spitlist at gte.net> I never did understand that. The factory could sidestep such standards easily with a factory roll bar. Roadster buyers would gladly accept such a move, as the car
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00714.html (8,467 bytes)
- 13. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:43:37 -0700
- It's possible that roll bars gained some converts among the suburban Jeep crowd after _Jeep's_ little to-do about rollover hazards (remember that one from the mid-`80s?). There is also, perhaps, the
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00716.html (9,671 bytes)
- 14. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:04:34 +0000
- That quote was not mine!!! Joe
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00718.html (8,723 bytes)
- 15. Re: triumph baack (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:33:07 -0600
- Hmm. Not sure how that happened. Sorry. --Original Message-- From Joe Curry <spitlist at gte.net> To: Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net> Cc: Herald948@aol.com <Herald948@aol.com>; 105671.471@compuserve.co
- /html/triumphs/2001-01/msg00988.html (9,007 bytes)
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