[TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

On 5/23/17 7:23 AM, Matt wrote:
> Side note, am I the only one that has had multiple people stop you 
> while driving a Triumph to say - "I have one of these in my yard, 
> would you like to come get it?"
Almost free. I was driving my TR3 when someone came up to me and said he 
was downsizing and had a non running TR3 sitting in his garage that he 
would like to get rid of. I could have it for $300.

I trailered it home, replaced my seats with those in the other TR. Mine 
had aftermarket seat bottoms that were squishy and liked to pretend they 
were boat decking in a storm at sea. The other TR had like new original 
seats with factory leather. And I removed the hard top from the other TR 
and kept it. I then sold the TR3 of $3000 as a restoreable non running 
project car.

Another time while driving my TR3 someone offered me several boxes of 
free TR3 parts. He sold his TR3 to help finance a restoration of his non 
running DB5.

That's about it so far. I have yet to hit the jackpot like a co-worker 
at my first job. Back to 1967, when I was working at SRI, I had an 
openable window next to a parking area. A co-worker said he just picked 
up a used car with a bad charging circuit and could he run a extension 
cord out my window to a battery charger. So throughout the rest of the 
summer there was a dark blue DB3R sitting outside my window at work. He 
bought the racing Aston Martin at a Menlo Park garage sale for $200. A 
retired military father was upset that his son had moved to Canada 
instead of being drafted for Vietnam and was having a garage sale to 
sell off the possessions his son left behind. To the father it was an 
old used sports car his son purchased that didn't even run (dead 
battery). Then there was this Lotus 11 owner I talked to at Laguna Seca 
who found his Lotus sitting under a tree on a farm near Tracy, 
California. I guess you just need to be in the right place at the right 
time and keep your eyes open.

TeriAnn
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