[TR] Parts, parts....

[Dean Tetterton]

Just for interest, when I retired from racing four years ago, I decided I
didn't need extra blocks, cranks, and heads.
Could not find anybody in my local Triumph club that was interested in
anything. They had rather order from a
catalogue. I loaded up my truck with 1850 lbs of metal parts and made a
haul to the scrap yard. Still have lots of
small stuff but that will soon be going somewhere soon. Am soon going to
finish my last project car. Putting my
racing Warwick GT back as a street car. Have not decided what to do with
the TR4 race car yet. Might put that back
as a street runner.

Dean T.



On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 7:56 PM <lee at automate-it.com> wrote:

> 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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