ASSET!!
You are very lucky to have a wife that would consider any Triumph an
asset!
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Rocky Entriken
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:42 PM
To: Mark J Bradakis; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Mark 1 Spit for sale?
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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