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Re: Could've had a V8? Not from a TR-8!

To: "Datsun Roadster" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Could've had a V8? Not from a TR-8!
From: <eddie@ratdat.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:29:42 -0800
No way...that car wouldn't fetch that much here even if it was straight! I
used to work on Triumphs and the only one I'd own would be an early GT6 or
TR4A the rest are pretty poor, especially TR7's.

Eddie
England
1969 SRL311-08567
eddie@ratdat.com
www.ratdat.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Laury <vlaury@earthlink.net>
To: Jeff Etheridge <maurell@bellsouth.net>; Datsun Roadster
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Could've had a V8? Not from a TR-8!


> Whoa,
>
> Anything from a TR-8 has to be cursed. Everything I hear reinforces the
> belief that this was the biggest POS ever to leave the British Isles.
>
> The very reason you did not see these on the road, is that four years
after
> they were sold, they were all scrap metal!
>
> I did see a TR-7 just the other day and thought that was amazing it was
> still operating!
>
> Advertised as "The Shape"  turned out to be "The shape to bury itself"

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