Well, Mark, I asked the comptroller of Ikke se Hurtig Racing (wife) if I
could make an offer, but she says that since our investments have gone into
the toilet the past several weeks the capital is not there for adding to our
assets at this time.
:-(
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J Bradakis" <mjb@autox.team.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:44 AM
Subject: Mark 1 Spit for sale?
> As I often do I'm considering trimming down the list of projects so I can
> concentrate on actually making some progress on a few. For instance
getting
> a decent bonnet on Killer, which had that clapped out red one for the '97
> Texas VTR, and the '98 Minnesota VTR, and Oregon, and still today, though
> there is some Jasmine Yellow paint and a mostly striaght stripe painted on
> it. And perhaps fixing the brakes in the red racer.
>
> Anyway, one of the project cars is the only street legal Triumph I have,
> a Spitfire Mark 1. Drove it to the shop and back tonight, it is a fun
> little car. It is a running, driveable car that needs *everything*.
>
> Well, the 185/60 Yokos aren't too bad, and it does have some 13 x 5.5
alloy
> wheels. It currently sports a contender for the world's worst paint job.
> A contender, not a champion, mind you. Basically one weekend I was
looking
> at the car and wondered how roundtail Spits look in Triumph's Delft Blue
> [ http://www.team/net/mjb/Racket.html ] The 8 spoke wheels and wood
trimmed
> Nardi steering wheel in that shot are not part of the package, sorry.
I'll
> get more pics up soon. I plan to drive it on the British Motor Club of
Utah
> tour this weekend, a fresh 'For Sale' sign displayed on the boot lid.
>
> A major project, lots of rust and tweaks and previous repairs. It sports
> a Weber 40 DCOE sidedraft and the Mark 2 tube header. Also a conversion
> to a GM internally regulated alternator. The interior is crap, the seats
> are falling apart, the soft top has a cracked and darkend window, and I
love
> the little thing. Stout of heart, it always refreshes my enthusiasm for
> Triumphs. But there's Killer, and the red racer, and the TR7 I've been
> thinking about for IVR racing, and the TR6 I tore apart in '87 and need to
> finish...
>
> $895, cash, Visa, Mastercard - delivery at extra cost possible to, say,
Denver,
> Phoenix, Pasadena, Sacremento, Yakima - maybe even Topeka, Kansas around
> the middle of September. We shall see.
>
> mjb.
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