[TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 10, Issue 134

Thu May 25 14:04:43 MDT 2017

Hi, In the process of rebuilding floors and associated body parts, I let the TR3 sit 10 years without running. If for some reason it doesn't turn over, what do I pour in to loosen it up. I was not concerned because it hadn't started in 25 years when I bought it. I just had to rebuild the carbs, they look good now.                                                                                       thanks, Joe Mato

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (wbeech)
  2. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (glemon at neb.rr.com)
  3. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (Matt)
  4. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (Michael Porter)
  5. TR2/3 windscreen question (Andrew Uprichard)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:07:30 -0500
From: "wbeech" <wbeech at flash.net>
To: "'TeriAnn J. Wakeman'" <tjwakeman at gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR
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Great stories, still looking here.

B

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:25 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR

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 o
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TeriAnn

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:18:51 +0000
From: <glemon at neb.rr.com>
To: "'TeriAnn J. Wakeman'" <tjwakeman at gmail.com>,
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 "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?"  Teri Ann"

I don't think you are the only one, because I have read and heard many stories like that, but it doesnt happen to me, not in my 40 years or so of driving British and some other old and unusual cars.  Plenty of "I used to have one just like its" but no offers of free or next to free cars and parts.  

Closest thing but not really the same, plenty of deals where lots of parts or even a whole parts car was thrown in (as much for the owner to get the stuff or car out of his garage or yard as to sweeten the deal).  

Also offers to trade, mostly in the early days, had both a tri-carb big Healey and an Alfa Guilietta offered straight up for my 66 Sprite.  The Sprite was by no means perfect, but was decent and road ready, the other two were rusty and rinning, but barely.  I turned both down, which was actually probably smart at the time, as the Sprite was my daily drive to school and work, and I didn't have the skills or mostly the money needed to run the other cars.

Greg 
TR250 

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:17:24 GMT
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I figured there would be some interesting tales. One of my freebie offers included the phrase "bring a chain saw"  Poor Spit had a tree growing up through the frame!It was so rusty I offered to either cut the tree or cut the car - they opted for the tree.

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Great stories, still looking here.
B

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:25 AM
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Subject: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR

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?"
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:11:31 -0600
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To: Matt <mbarre at juno.com>
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On 5/24/2017 6:17 AM, Matt wrote:
> I figured there would be some interesting tales.

The closest I came to having anything offered was as a consolation 
prize.  My very first car was a `63 Spit, and I had put it up on blocks 
one winter and stored the tires in a closet in my apartment, thinking I 
would do some work it needed in the spring.  In the interregnum, the 
police were embarking on an abandoned car clean-up campaign, and they'd 
identified it as abandoned and they'd traced the car back to me.  Um, 
how, exactly, did you trace ownership? "Oh, we checked the license 
plates."  Then you realize it's still currently registered, right?  "Uh, 
yeah."  That means it's still insured, right?  "Um, yeah."  So, if it's 
still registered and insured and it's on property I rent, it's not 
abandoned, right?  The police lieutenant said, "ah, I see what you 
mean.  I'll take it off the list."

A few weeks later, I wake up one Saturday morning to the apartment 
buzzer going nuts.  One of my more spaced-out neighbors is jabbering 
about the army taking my car.  Sure enough, I go out to the parking lot 
and someone has taken the car and even the blocks it was sitting on.  
Eventually, I track down the car.  The National Guard had brought in a 
flatbed with a crane, wrapped a chain around its middle, hoisted it onto 
the flatbed, and then dumped it on its nose in the junkyard.  So, with 
it wasp-waisted and frame bent and no shop space, there was no way I 
could salvage it.

When I called the police and demanded to know what happened, they 
couldn't explain it.  Said the car wasn't on their list.  A few weeks 
later, the police lieutenant I'd talked to originally called, and 
somewhat sheepishly admitted that he had taken the car off the police 
list, but that he'd gone into the hospital before calling the National 
Guard to have them take it off _their_ list.  So, my Spit, which I'd 
bought in Hawaii when I was stationed there, had driven cross-country, 
and for which I'd had great plans, was perhaps the only car in history 
to be totalled by a double hernia.

The cop really did feel bad about it, and a week or so later called me 
to say that, maybe, he'd found another car for me.  The owner didn't 
want it and they were going to pick it up for him in the clean-up 
campaign.  It was a really ratty-tatty `58 MGA with a seized engine.  I 
knew that without a shop and the tools necessary, and going to school, 
besides, I was never going to be able to make it roadworthy, and had to 
pass on it.

Cheers.

-- 

Michael Porter
Roswell, NM

Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:30:18 -0400
From: "Andrew Uprichard" <auprichard at uprichard.net>
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Subject: [TR] TR2/3 windscreen question
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List:

I recently came across a stash of parts in a barn in Maryland.  Most was TR3
but there were a number of TR2 parts.

One thing which surprised me was a split windscreen/windshield.  At first I
thought it had been jerry-rigged, but the center piece seems authentic and
the frame has holes for securing screws top and bottom.

Anyone ever seen this before?

Andrew Uprichard

Jackson, Mi

By the way, I have a PILE of new sheetmetal (TR2, TR3) if anyone wants to
talk off-llne.

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