Bud,
You lucky snake. But, jealosy leads to hope that the laws of
probability will eventually lead me to one of these finds. So be
sure to tell us when you win the lottery, too :-)
At 03:25 PM 03/15/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
>List,
>
>Well the blind hog found an acorn. Here I pull up to this guy's house
>to look at a tub for my TR4A project and there it sits, a rolling
>chassis with the tub sitting on it. Tub turns out to be great, a little
>rust on the passenger floor pan but all inner and outer rockers are
>solid (even the cookies), and everything else too (all fenders are
>straight and solid), including the frame (better than the one I WAS
>going to use). The engine has new liners, pistons, and bearings put in
>recently by a local engine builder so it's almost rebuilt. Every other
>part possible was in boxes in the guy's garage. It turns out the car
>had been like this for 20+ years as a previous owner had pulled it apart
>labled everything and put it in boxes but then sold it when he lost
>interest. The present owner had it for 20 years and had moved it (in
>boxes) twice to South Dakota and back but finally decided he wasn't
>going to do it as his project either.
>
>Short story is that I got a WHOLE TR4A instead of just the tub and
>here's the acorn part. It was the rolling chassis was sitting on four
>American Racing Equipment silverstone eight spoke magnesium wheels (just
>like the ones I was drooling over back in November if you remember my
>post about the wheels on the TR3 on the Moss catalog cover) that are in
>excellant shape. And to top it off when I opened up one of the many
>boxes I carted home yesterday there were the four original NOKOF
>spinners, three (one had a broken tip) in very nice shape. Anyone have
>one leftside spinner in decent shape they want to sell??
>
>So even though the snow is coming down heavy in Denver I'm reveling in
>my good fortune and enjoying finding an acorn (it's the horn of plenty
>for me).
>
>Bud Rolofson
>71TR6 CC57365
>71TR6 CC65446
>66TR4A CTC57806
>66TR4A CTC57829
>
>
Cliff Hansen
chansen@access1.net
1966 TR-4A CTC 64615L
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