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Re: Tar Baby Triumphs

To: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Tar Baby Triumphs
From: Joe Curry <Spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:59:35 -0700
My experience has been that one does not have to cut up Triumphs.  If
one stacks them in a corner they will turn into brown piles before long
with out any intervention!  :)

Joe (C)

P.S. I did use a Saws-All to reduce my last parts car to pieces small
enough to be accepted by the dump once I removed all the useable parts
(including the rear end which ended up being a Love Seat and displayed
in Breckenridge.  It broke my heart to see a car with just over 5000
actual miles in such a pitiful state of rust!

Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> 
> When the shop was on the other side of the current shop's back wall
> the neighbor was a mud jacker, and had one of these gasoline powered
> chop saws.  Pretty impressive tools.  He's moved on, so I couldn't ask
> to borrow it for a few minutes, oh well.
> 
> Luckily cutting up a Triumph isn't something I do too often.  I prefer
> to stash the remains somewhere with the firm belief that any day now
> I'll finish up all my other projects and get around to resurrecting the
> car.  And the car that started this note arrived at the shop yesterday
> afternoon, and upon first inspection appears quite straight and solid.
> So there may be another squaretail Spit, probably two, in my not so
> distant future.  And those two aluminum wheels on the back match a set
> of four I have on hand, neat!  Too bad the motor had lost the thrust
> washers and chedwed up the crank and rear main cap.  So it goes.
> 
> mjb.
> 
> http://fatchancegarage.com/images/square_tail_01.jpg
> http://fatchancegarage.com/images/square_tail_02.jpg

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