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Triumph TR3 - Isn't this a little steep?

I feel sorry for the man with the brain tumor, but almost $20K for a TR3? It damn well better be perfect enough to win every show it enters. I had never seen the addon rear turn signals before (not a negative).

I do hope he gets a good price, I'm sure $20K seems a paltry sum after medical bills. My babies will probably get sold the same way some day.
Tom

Sorry:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1957-TR-3_W0QQitemZ4573828465QQcategoryZ6469QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Tom

And here's a car that's claimed to have never been restored! Give me a break! It might bring the $10K tho.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1959-TRIUMPH-TR3_W0QQitemZ4573905067QQcategoryZ6469QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Tom

At the Ottawa British Car Day in mid-July, I was aproached by a man and his wife (both in their early 40's) whom I had seen driving onto the field each in his and her own Jag XKE's. The man asked how much I wanted to sell my 1958 TR3A. I told them it wasn't for sale. "Every car has a selling price - what is yours"? I repeated that it wasn't for sale. He asked how much it was insured for. I replied $30,000.00 CDN$ ($25,000 US$) and he replied, "That would be no problem". He insisted that I take his card with his phone number and e-mail address on it and to let him know when I was willing to sell it. "Maybe in 10 years you will change your mind", he said.

There are people with money that is burning a hole in their pockets.

Don Elliott
http://www.britishcarforum.com/ubbthreads/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1919&sort=0&page=0&sortby=&sorttime=&sortdir=
Don Elliott

I hope that guy finds the blue one. I'm sure the owner needs to sell. Your black one looks great, Don.
Tom

Thanks Tom - On page 80 of the last issue of Triumph World Magazine, there is a place (Dealer ?) in Greece selling two TR3A's with prices listed in British pounds. For one he is asking £17,500 (US$ 32,195) and the other is for sale at £29,890 (US$ 54,990).

He has hopes of becoming rich very soon. I doubt if any British TR lovers have that kind of money floating around.


Don
Don Elliott

Tom But what about the floor!!! How about in a nice BRG/Tan Hmmmmm. I too am a little curious about the add on's. I see according to Mr. Piggott that seperate rear signals were added after TS15601 but that a probable rear apron stamping change was not until TS16473. Perhaps it is a factory add on. My bad eyes can't quite make out the ser.# TS1_ 309?? What do you think Don, ever seen add on turn lights?
Brian
B. Towne

I have seen a late TR3 with rear directional turn signal lights. It seems that the factory ran out of TR3 rear valances at some point and introduced these earlier than the TR3A. It looks like a very nice car.

Don
Don Elliott

I think these turn lights are addon (plinths?), not molded into the rear panel. I have heard of them before, but never saw them except on this car. I think it would be worth more in another color, too.

Let's just move to Greece and do nothing but drive our TR's. (And occasionally sand the points on the regulator or something.) I paid $50 and a Corvair van for my first TR3, still have it...times have changed.
Tom

I took a closer look and now I agree that the lights look like add-ons. I've never seen then like this but there was a red TR3A owner at the Canadian Classic near Trenton, Ontario in 1987 who had added 2 like this of his own design on the rear as back-up lights - in addition to the usual red directional signal lights.

As for the colour, it looks like the very rare Wedgewood or Salvator blue that was used (rarely) on 1956 and '57 TR3's.

There is a chap in Vermont I know and one in England who have TR3's with this colour of blue. Send me your e-mail addresses and I can send you a picture.

Don Elliott 58tr3a@videotron dot ca
Don Elliott

I like the color, my wife would say "It's not red." I showed her a nice TD isn BRG the other day. Very tasteful in my eyes. She didn't like it. I guess you could say she like flamboyant colors. She wears neon bikinis on vacation, I guess that sums it up.
Tom

WOW ! She must have quite a shape to still be able to wear a bikini - in any colour.

Don
Don Elliott

She's pretty much straight up and down, sleek might be a good description. A little padding on the top and she's good to go.
Tom

Tom
Can you sleep with one eye open? Might have to if she starts reading your e-mails.
Brian
B. Towne

Only you on this board know my email, B. And I don't think you're the type to start trouble.

On a TR note, my 4 has control box probs again. I started it the other night and the lights were too bright, the ammeter shot up to the max at a couple thousand RPM. I ran some sandpaper through the contacts and all seemed well. Yesterday, she didn't have enough battery to start. Charged all night, started up well today. But ammeter pegging again. Stopped and sanded the contacts again, better this time, with 400 grit. Still pegging. Came home, put on a used regulator that I'd just cleaned up, it's not charging.

So one reg charges too much, the other doesn't charge at all. I hate to buy another control box, but the last one worked for 2 years, so I guess that's not too bad for a Lucas part. I have to admit, every time this happens, I consider breaking tradition and converting to an alternator.
Tom

Just to spite me, today I ran 400 paper thru the contacts again (and whacked the thing around a bit, don't know which did the trick), and my spare control box charges (and doesn't peg the meter). I checked the reg and cutin voltages, they seem fine. Tweaked a bit, but probably didn't have to. I'll give it a few days trial, the ammeter is running higher than it was, but the battery has got a workout with all the starts checking the voltages, maybe it's charging better than it was. The starter always turns faster than normal after a good slow charge rather than the charge the genny gives it. I probably should take the generator out and clean it before winter, too.
Tom

In case anybody cares, the regulation is fine now. Seems to crank better, too.

A friend told me that regulators have to be polarized like generators if you change them. Never heard of that before, but maybe that's why the thing didn't work right the first try. Then using it once polarized it?
Tom

I have discussed changing polarity on cars (and tractors) quite a bit and there has never been any mention of needing to polarize the regulator.
Maybe it just happens once you use it as you suggest. In any case it sounds like you're up and running.
Jim
J. S. Wallace

It still looks (from the ammeter) that it's charging more than I'm used to. But it's also turning the starter over faster. I'll be checking it out more thoroughly as winter approaches, or it burns up my battery.
Tom

After building and selling MGBs for the last several years, I was more than willing to pay $5k plus for a TR-3 project, as I am buying back my childhood. It is a solid project though, with the frame done. After writing the check and loading it on the trailer in Canada, it occurred to me that I had just fallen for the same thing that has sold all of my MGBs for years. Doh! Still, it will come in under the price of a new car and be more to my taste, so why not?
chris

Chris - Canada and US have NAFTA (North American FUTILE Trade Agreement) and you should check with your customs authorities. Parts for a car older than 25 years have no duty on them. I assume it's the same for cars older than 25 years.

Don Elliott
Don Elliott

Don, one border guy said there was a duty, sent me to two other guys who were miffed that he would send me to them rather than do it himself, so they said there was not duty like you say, and sent me on my way.
I had been told to expect to pay some percentage since I could not prove that the car had already had duty paid when it was FIRST imported into the US from England, prior to going to Canada.
Anyway, I was just happy that the US border patrol was having an internal pishing match while I quietly fired up the truck and got out of there. Sure beat the Canadian reception committee that totally ripped my truck from stem to stern looking for God knows what. Evidently, an empty trailer behind a p/u on a mission to pick up a car is a flag signalling dope smuggler.
chris

I happen to have a 57 TR3 that has the lite hole cut outs but no plinths,this is the orig rear valance.I can take a pix of it if anybody would like a look see.
WYATT WOLCOTT

This thread was discussed between 07/09/2005 and 19/11/2005

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