Very close to my home in the UK is a disused WW2 airfield where I clearly
remember spending many Saturday mornings in the 1960â??s doing stock checks of
new Triumphs that were awaiting shipment as finished new cars. I was there
again only three days ago doing some work on our caravan which is dry stored on
the very adjacent farm. Looking back to those now very distant days, all I
recall were vast numbers of all models of Triumphs parked in long rows along
the former taxiways, with many up to their axles in mud, water and or long
grass as a result of blocked surface drainage. It wasnâ??t unusual for a car to
be at Honeybourne for several months in the open air with no protection
whatsoever. Reasons why are too long for this response. On that basis, Iâ??m
still truly amazed that so many have lasted as long as they have. Letâ??s face
it, ten years at the very most was the anticipated life expectancy of any of
those models and the amount of re-working we had to do before final shipment
was usually horrendous.
In spite of all those early horrors, lots have somehow survived and been
restored and in answer to the question of storage options, my only response
would be a dry building that doesnâ??t leak and isnâ??t damp, a nice warm
blanket, a thorough wax polish, a full tank of fresh fuel, ditto for engine oil
and some lightweight machine oil sprayed into each cylinder. Ye gods, the car
deserves it after the hellish it came to know when new.
Jonmac
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