[TR] Ron Hackenberger collection

[Andrew Uprichard]

I think they still are.  At the same auction today a Healey 100-6 with several years of wet leaves in the passenger compartment sold for $13, 750.  I doubt I'll ever be able buy and sell Healeys as I do TRs. 

The 250s are getting to be very expensive (a recent rust bucket sold for $17,000 on eBay), but the TR4s and 6s can be found at very reasonable prices.  And I think there are a lot of TR3s which a hobbyist could find for way less than $5000.

Andrew Uprichard

-----Original Message-----
From: glemon at neb.rr.com [mailto:glemon at neb.rr.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2017 9:16 PM
To: Andrew Uprichard; triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Ron Hackenberger collection


"The days of picking up a TR3 for $500 (the price of my first car 15 years
ago) are long gone.  Which is a good  thing, right?

 Andrew Uprichard"

I don't know, back when I had my Healey in the early 2000s prices rose pretty drastically til the best were bringing 100k or more at auction.  While it is nice to see whatever you own go up in value, it is not so nice to see the price of entry into the club, even for projects that need pretty much everything, let alone a nice driver, go from "cheap and cheerful" to real money and it all gets to be bit of a more of a business than a hobby, or at least serious project to make it all "correct"  or have people looking down on you if you don't.  I guess I'd kind of like to see Triumphs stay closer to the "cheap and cheerful" end of the spectrum.

Greg Lemon
TR250