[TR] Parts, parts....

[lee at automate-it.com]

This is a great question! I have a fun TR6 that I regularly drive, and 
another, mostly disassembled, that I have now realized will never see 
road time again, and parts (the entire drive train) of a third that 
provide the occasional useful part. What to do with the many extras (and 
extra extras, now that I think about all the crap I've picked up here 
and there over the years)? We have this fantastic communication forum, 
but actually moving physical parts (some of them way too heavy/bulky to 
economically ship) is a major roadblock. I suspect that the next several 
years are going to see a lot of metal get dropped off at the local metal 
recycling yard.

I've benefited from the generosity of many of you who have 
donated/sold/shipped needed accessories as I've kept up my habit over 
the years. I'm not particularly close to the epicenter of the Triumph 
club I belong to (Texas Triumph Register, Houston) but I've 
bought/sold/been given/provided parts with several of the members. But 
our numbers are dwindling, and we are not going to see another 
generation of Triumph aficionados. I will likely end up trashing a bunch 
of the spares I've collected. Like the good TR6 head/block in the corner 
(with the head firmly stuck on) that came out of a mostly-destroyed car 
I came across.

So I also await the wisdom of The List.

  - Lee

On 2023-06-23 10:54, David Friedlander wrote:

> Greetings all !
> 
> Just a question. Seems like we all have some level of interest here but 
> I can't
> recall it coming up in conversation. Over the years, many/most of us 
> have
> restored/rebuilt one or more TR's and other LBC's.
> 
> After restoring my '74 TR6 and my '59 TR2A, here's my question: What to 
> do
> with the mounds of parts I have now replaced with upgraded parts? For 
> example,
> I have stock TR3 wheels, stock TR6 wheels, TR6 chrome rings, a stock 
> TR6 exhaust,
> TR6 rubber bumpers, TR3 fenders and a spare TR3 core transmission, a 
> red fan, a
> yellow fan, etc, etc. Some parts are spares I bought and never used.
> 
> Aside from putting lot-by-lot on Facebook, what suggestions does anyone 
> have for
> a good way to disposition boxes of TR parts?
> 
> Dave
> Gorham, Maine
> 
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