<font color='black' size='4' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><font size="4">You may get points for originality (or, more correctly not get deduct points for not having yellow strip hoses) but you would get deduct points for having old, cracked, leaky hoses. That's called maintenance.<br>
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I suspect this guy must deal in Porsches or Mercedes' where folks will pay stupid money for original parts.<br>
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To: glemon <glemon@neb.rr.com><br>
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Sent: Mon, Jan 25, 2016 8:43 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [TR] could this be real??<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Old hoses, like old tires, dry out, Crack and need to be replaced. Makes no difference what "pattern" is on the outside, if they won't hold pressure. I don't see how a rubber part could ever be a 'collectible.' Maybe for concours use, they'd have a value but...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 25, 2016 9:26 PM, <<a target="_blank" removedlink__81212da5-357e-4932-be89-56ab39d9086a__href="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com">glemon@neb.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A few years back I bought what would now be called a "barn find" rusty TR250 that looked to be all original, including all the original striped hoses. They were in pretty good shape )though I certainly would have had to replace them before using the car.)<br>
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Little did I know the hoses were worth as much as I paid for the car...<br>
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Greg Lemon<br>
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> CC25064 had some of these hoses. They were old, cracked and leaky. I<br>
> threw them away. Silly me.<br>
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