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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/23/17 7:23 AM, Matt wrote:<br>
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<div>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?"</div>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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TeriAnn<br>
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