<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5090"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5404">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</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5089"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4972" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4971"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4970"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5087"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5710"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5753"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "triumphs-request@autox.team.net" <triumphs-request@autox.team.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> triumphs@autox.team.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 24, 2017 2:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Triumphs Digest, Vol 10, Issue 134<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4969"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5708">Send Triumphs mailing list submissions to<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4968"> <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_4967" class="edited-link-editor">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5706"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5085">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5083"> <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/triumphs" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5700">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/triumphs</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5702">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_5704"> <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs-request@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs-request@autox.team.net" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_6097">triumphs-request@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_6005"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_6007">You can reach the person managing the list at<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495741938480_6009"> <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs-owner@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs-owner@autox.team.net">triumphs-owner@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br></div><div dir="ltr">than "Re: Contents of Triumphs digest..."<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Today's Topics:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> 1. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (wbeech)<br></div><div dir="ltr"> 2. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (<a ymailto="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com" href="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com">glemon@neb.rr.com</a>)<br></div><div dir="ltr"> 3. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (Matt)<br></div><div dir="ltr"> 4. Re: vehicle offers while driving a TR (Michael Porter)<br></div><div dir="ltr"> 5. TR2/3 windscreen question (Andrew Uprichard)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 1<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:07:30 -0500<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: "wbeech" <<a ymailto="mailto:wbeech@flash.net" href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net">wbeech@flash.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: "'TeriAnn J. Wakeman'" <<a ymailto="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com" href="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com">tjwakeman@gmail.com</a>>,<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <006201d2d43a$e8aded70$ba09c850$@flash.net><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Great stories, still looking here.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">B<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Triumphs [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net">triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br></div><div dir="ltr">Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:25 AM<br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 5/23/17 7:23 AM, Matt wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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?"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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<br></div><div dir="ltr"> pen.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">TeriAnn<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Book - The Essential Guide to Overland Travel in the United States and Canada <<a href="http://overlandtravel.us/" target="_blank">http://overlandtravel.us</a>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">2 years to write and 38 years of travel and camping to learn what to write<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Because the world beckons and life waits for no one<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170523/2e313a93/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170523/2e313a93/attachment-0001.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 2<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:18:51 +0000<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: <<a ymailto="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com" href="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com">glemon@neb.rr.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: "'TeriAnn J. Wakeman'" <<a ymailto="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com" href="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com">tjwakeman@gmail.com</a>>,<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:20170524121851.FYZ4F.173079.root@cdptpa-web12" href="mailto:20170524121851.FYZ4F.173079.root@cdptpa-web12">20170524121851.FYZ4F.173079.root@cdptpa-web12</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> "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"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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). <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Greg <br></div><div dir="ltr">TR250 <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 3<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:17:24 GMT<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: "Matt" <<a ymailto="mailto:mbarre@juno.com" href="mailto:mbarre@juno.com">mbarre@juno.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Undisclosed-recipients:;<br></div><div dir="ltr">Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:20170524.081724.9679.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com" href="mailto:20170524.081724.9679.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com">20170524.081724.9679.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">---------- Original Message ----------<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: "wbeech" <<a ymailto="mailto:wbeech@flash.net" href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net">wbeech@flash.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Great stories, still looking here.<br></div><div dir="ltr">B<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Triumphs [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net">triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br></div><div dir="ltr">Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:25 AM<br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr">On 5/23/17 7:23 AM, Matt wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">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?"<br></div><div dir="ltr">...<br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170524/b32f9feb/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170524/b32f9feb/attachment-0001.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 4<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:11:31 -0600<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Michael Porter <<a ymailto="mailto:mdporter@dfn.com" href="mailto:mdporter@dfn.com">mdporter@dfn.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Matt <<a ymailto="mailto:mbarre@juno.com" href="mailto:mbarre@juno.com">mbarre@juno.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [TR] vehicle offers while driving a TR<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:b3d83544-09fb-59eb-f2ae-556ecf3c7f34@dfn.com" href="mailto:b3d83544-09fb-59eb-f2ae-556ecf3c7f34@dfn.com">b3d83544-09fb-59eb-f2ae-556ecf3c7f34@dfn.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On 5/24/2017 6:17 AM, Matt wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I figured there would be some interesting tales.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The closest I came to having anything offered was as a consolation <br></div><div dir="ltr">prize. My very first car was a `63 Spit, and I had put it up on blocks <br></div><div dir="ltr">one winter and stored the tires in a closet in my apartment, thinking I <br></div><div dir="ltr">would do some work it needed in the spring. In the interregnum, the <br></div><div dir="ltr">police were embarking on an abandoned car clean-up campaign, and they'd <br></div><div dir="ltr">identified it as abandoned and they'd traced the car back to me. Um, <br></div><div dir="ltr">how, exactly, did you trace ownership? "Oh, we checked the license <br></div><div dir="ltr">plates." Then you realize it's still currently registered, right? "Uh, <br></div><div dir="ltr">yeah." That means it's still insured, right? "Um, yeah." So, if it's <br></div><div dir="ltr">still registered and insured and it's on property I rent, it's not <br></div><div dir="ltr">abandoned, right? The police lieutenant said, "ah, I see what you <br></div><div dir="ltr">mean. I'll take it off the list."<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A few weeks later, I wake up one Saturday morning to the apartment <br></div><div dir="ltr">buzzer going nuts. One of my more spaced-out neighbors is jabbering <br></div><div dir="ltr">about the army taking my car. Sure enough, I go out to the parking lot <br></div><div dir="ltr">and someone has taken the car and even the blocks it was sitting on. <br></div><div dir="ltr">Eventually, I track down the car. The National Guard had brought in a <br></div><div dir="ltr">flatbed with a crane, wrapped a chain around its middle, hoisted it onto <br></div><div dir="ltr">the flatbed, and then dumped it on its nose in the junkyard. So, with <br></div><div dir="ltr">it wasp-waisted and frame bent and no shop space, there was no way I <br></div><div dir="ltr">could salvage it.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When I called the police and demanded to know what happened, they <br></div><div dir="ltr">couldn't explain it. Said the car wasn't on their list. A few weeks <br></div><div dir="ltr">later, the police lieutenant I'd talked to originally called, and <br></div><div dir="ltr">somewhat sheepishly admitted that he had taken the car off the police <br></div><div dir="ltr">list, but that he'd gone into the hospital before calling the National <br></div><div dir="ltr">Guard to have them take it off _their_ list. So, my Spit, which I'd <br></div><div dir="ltr">bought in Hawaii when I was stationed there, had driven cross-country, <br></div><div dir="ltr">and for which I'd had great plans, was perhaps the only car in history <br></div><div dir="ltr">to be totalled by a double hernia.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The cop really did feel bad about it, and a week or so later called me <br></div><div dir="ltr">to say that, maybe, he'd found another car for me. The owner didn't <br></div><div dir="ltr">want it and they were going to pick it up for him in the clean-up <br></div><div dir="ltr">campaign. It was a really ratty-tatty `58 MGA with a seized engine. I <br></div><div dir="ltr">knew that without a shop and the tools necessary, and going to school, <br></div><div dir="ltr">besides, I was never going to be able to make it roadworthy, and had to <br></div><div dir="ltr">pass on it.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Michael Porter<br></div><div dir="ltr">Roswell, NM<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Message: 5<br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:30:18 -0400<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: "Andrew Uprichard" <<a ymailto="mailto:auprichard@uprichard.net" href="mailto:auprichard@uprichard.net">auprichard@uprichard.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <<a ymailto="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [TR] TR2/3 windscreen question<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <014201d2d49a$452dd790$cf8986b0$@uprichard.net><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">List:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I recently came across a stash of parts in a barn in Maryland. Most was TR3<br></div><div dir="ltr">but there were a number of TR2 parts.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">One thing which surprised me was a split windscreen/windshield. At first I<br></div><div dir="ltr">thought it had been jerry-rigged, but the center piece seems authentic and<br></div><div dir="ltr">the frame has holes for securing screws top and bottom.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyone ever seen this before?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Andrew Uprichard<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jackson, Mi<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">By the way, I have a PILE of new sheetmetal (TR2, TR3) if anyone wants to<br></div><div dir="ltr">talk off-llne.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170524/a92b6092/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/pipermail/triumphs/attachments/20170524/a92b6092/attachment-0001.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Digest Footer<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Triumphs mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Triumphs@autox.team.net" href="mailto:Triumphs@autox.team.net">Triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/triumphs" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/triumphs</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">End of Triumphs Digest, Vol 10, Issue 134<br></div><div dir="ltr">*****************************************<br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>