Jerry Kaidor posted:
>***** This reminds me of the guy I met at a Triumphest who claimed to have the
>original TR in boxes in his garage. By "The Original TR", I mean the first TR2
>ever made, serial number TS1. He told me that he was afraid to even lay a
>wrench to it and make it nonoriginal.
Now this is something I do know about. The last I heard,
TS1 was owned by Joe Richards, President of the Triumph
Register of America. Joe bought the car from a Canadian
owner about 10 years ago. As I recall, he sold some
rust pieces from the floorboards at a past TRA national
meet. Joe's intention was to restore the car and I
belive that is what he is doing. Knowing that Joe would
want the end result to be as near perfect as possible, he
has been taking a considerable time to do the restoration.
The very early TRs had numerous items that are different
then later TRs, so locating original stuff that might
have been replaced over the years is not easy.
Teriann Wakeman is a member of TRA as I recall, perhaps
she can add any additional info that might have been
mentioned by Joe Richards in the TRA newsletter.
TRA by the way is a national group that focuses only
on the TR2 and TR3 models.
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