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Triumph TR6 - God Drives a TR

The last week has been an interesting one for me.

I've always loved TR's, as I worked as the Navigator for my oldest sister when she rallyed her 4 when I was in Junior High.

As a senior in High School I got my first job and saved; I acquired my 1965 TR4 in 1973. It died while I performed motor surgery in 1975, when I painfully learned that a torque wrench cannot be compensated for. Wife 1 felt my loss and bought me a 1963 TR4 with a 1967 4A parts car in 1978.

I made one good car from them and stored the "good' parts in my parent's basement. The TR4 lived a happy life until it met with an untimely end, in 1985, while parked. The stored parts made a move to a rented storage space 3-years ago, when I bought the 76 TR6, which came with a bunch of spares. The old spare parts came to my current garage (a couple of wifes later) a few months ago.

Here's the point: God drives a TR

Love-love tolerated the displacement of her car from the garage through the winter well, but finally said something had to go (I've been there enough to fear my personal security). I needed to find homes for my treasures, or bid them farewell to the dump.

I borrowed the digital camera from work, took pictures of the 15 biggest items in the garage, and posted them on ebay.

Gene emailed me out of the blue to suggest I lower the price on one item, which I did, and all of the parts went to new good and loving homes. Thank-you Gene for your suggestion. The questions that I recieved about the parts were from owners who love their cars, and know more about them than I do.

My points are two fold; don't throw TR parts out, they will be transplanted, and, don't list a bunch of stuff, if you decide (or are forced to) all at once, or you run the risk of being up until 2:00 A.M. like me packing it.

I'll order the first "God drives a TR" bumper sticker from whomever offers it to me, by the way.






E Martin

And as we all know from Jim, the goose is the honker.

That is exactly how I picked up my project. The wife said " get it out of the garage, the basement, the spare room, and those 2 body shells off the back lawn".

Yes I am glad I was able to transplant a spare(s) into Matis' 6 and a few other people.
Let the spares live on.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

I bought my TR3A when I was 20 years old - brand new out the dealer's showroom. While I had first met Louise when I was 15, she was only the most beautiful girl who lived on my street. In a snow storm, in February, 1965 when "TRusty" was now 7 years old, I proposed and Louise accepted.

So I've had my TR longer than a wife. So our values and priorities are correctly in order.

BTW, the Triumph is the oldest car in history. It is written in the Bible, "Jesus rode into Jerusalem in Triumph !" It says so in the Bible. He takes after his old man.

Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A

Same car - same wife - see photo . . .

http://www.zen21606.zen.co.uk/Forum%20Gallery/don3a2_big.jpg
Don Elliott

Don, you may have started a thread here. I, too, have had my TR longer than I have had my spouse. I owned it for three years before we wed in '80. As my last remaining pre-marital property, the TR is the only thing she can't take when she finally comes to her senses and boots me out. In fact, it may be why she keeps me around.....

Tony
A. J. Koschinsky

Don, I think you've done better than most of us - same car, same wife for all this time - Wow! Peter G
Peter Gooch

Speaking of wives and TR’s I got mine in late 1974, only a year old (car not wife). Met the wife
In 1976. I literally picked her up in that car (she was hitchhiking). Got married in 1977. It happened on the return side of a 6000-mile cross-country road trip from northern California to Va.Beach, Virginia. And back to California. Stopped in Las Vegas gambled all my money away, then took a chance and asked her to marry me. After getting hitched we proceeded home to California with only enough money left for gas. Drove from Vegas to California with a dim (at first) getting ever-brighter ignition light and slowly decreasing voltage gauge. “Everything’s going to be ok “ I kept telling my new bride. “Don’t worry we’ll make it home”. It’s now starting to get dark and voltage gauge slightly over 12 volts (how long can I wait to turn on the headlights?). Finally (seemed like forever) got home. Very, very dim headlights, voltage gauge way left of 11-volt mark. Parked the TR. and turned off the ignition. Just for grins tried to restart. Nothing. Well first thing next morning, went down to local import auto parts store and the new wife bought the new alternator. 27 years later we’re still buying parts for that car. The TR’s in process of restoration, the wife’s still in pristine condition.

Tom
A 73 TR6
Tom Burke

This thread was discussed between 28/04/2004 and 01/05/2004

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