An enhusiastic endorsement to message from Gt6nut...
Unless you just enjoy working your fingers to the bone, spending a lot
of money, and waiting for three years to drive your LBC...buy a car
that is already done...there are plenty of TR-6s around at about the
$5-6000 price range...and doing the work you contemplate will cost
more than that...not counting your time and frustration.
Dan Arrington's experience mirrors mine...69 GT-6+ which looked to be
about a years work and a couple of thousand dollars...now into second
year of project with another year in front of me (if I am not being
too optimistic)...about $6k invested to date and lots to spend yet...
On the other hand, at least you'd be keeping another LBC from the
scrap yard (or out of my yard)...
Best of luck to you as you make the decision...which BTW...all most
all of us have made by buying the car so that we can learn to give the
advice above (in my case, I learned slowly, and bought another project
car to drive while I built the first car...now have three (GT-6s)
lined up in the driveway.
The TR-6 keeps me sane...because it just keeps running...rain or
shine!
Cheers
PMCQ
73 TR-6
72 GT-6
69 GT-6+ (2)
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Re: Rescue a TR6??
Author: Gt6nut@aol.com at Internet
Date: 3/3/97 4:00 PM
In a message dated 97-03-03 09:18:13 EST, you write:
<<
There s a 72 TR6 I m thinking about rescuing. Price? Cheap. Problems?
Well ...
The current owner says that though the car has been tarped while he s had
it, at some point it had been left ¬top down,¬ so now, the floorpans are
shot. Ditto the braking system. And this is just the stuff he offered to
tell me about. He did say he thought the frame was O.K., and I asked him
specifically about the trailing arms, which he says he ll check before we
talk again. (If he says there s significant frame rust, I m not eager to
proceed ...)
But before I go to see the rest of this project s problems, who can tell me
how difficult a job a floorpan replacement is in a TR6? The pans are spot
welded? How much are they, a couple hundred?
My idea is to strip the car down to tub and frame, repaint the car and
rebuild the engine or swap it out. I m looking at a good year s project,
maybe longer, but heck, it is a 6 ...
what s not to like?
---
Martin Secrest
74 Spitfire 1500 >>
Martin,
I an in the process of "restoring" a GT6+ that was in about the same
condition that you describe. Like you i thought it could be done in a year or
so. Well..... I'm now on year 2 and looking at least another year before it
is completed. This job is an amazing amount of work,and much more expensive
than my initial estimate.
Even doing all of the body work and welding myself (this is the cheap part) i
figure i will have somewhere between $10,000 and $12,000 into the car before
i am finished.
This is just the cost for parts and machiene work that i dont have the
equipment to do myself. I dont even want to think about my labor cost!
But in the end i will have a "brand new" 1969 Triumph GT6.
I guess it all depends on what you want and how much time and money you are
willing to put in to get it. But i will say, if i was to do it again (good
possibility) i would try to find a car in better shape to start with.
If you are interested take a look at my web site and you can see some of what
i have done.
CHEERS!!!
Dan Arrington (Near Portland,OR.)
gt6nut@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/gt6nut/gt6nut.htm
|