>> Colour me reactionary, brand me
>>stick in the mud, call me old fashioned but it beats the hell out of
>>me...if you don't like the ways it steers, handles or goes why, oh why
>>bloody buy one !!!!!!!!
>>
>> Yours, in utter despair, JH
>
>You know it's an amazing phenomenon when people buy something by and large
>the first thing they want to do is change it. Cars, Houses, EVERYTHING! I
>sell a bit of used computer equipment and how saleable a piece is to a large
>extent depends on how upgrade able it is, not what it'll do for the
>customer, sometimes not even what it costs, just it's upgradeablility.
>Strange .....
> Well no more time for this, my garage and my 4 wheel drive, make it a damn
>chopped & channeled sedan, TD conversion await. . . . . gag~!
George, before you gag please hear me out. I feel deeply about originality
with these old clunks. I also feel it is my mission in life to actually
drive the TC not just look at it. In order to do this with some degree of
safety in mind it then becomes necessary to accept that some changes will
have to be made.The TC was originally made with no bumpers, no rear view
mirrors at all, no turn signals, and one dim stop/tail lite on the left
side of the license plate holder. The steering which was an economic
compromise at best was not made for modern highways. All we are trying to
do is to keep these cars on the road instead of sitting in a museaum. Any
modifications we make are minimal and really do not detract from the
originality of the TC.
Now if you want to talk about modifications I remember back in the fifties
when these were just old cars all kinds of things were done My ex partner
had a TA with a Willys Jeep engine. Many TC's had Ford V8 60's stuffed in.
One of our old club members had a TD with a Studebaker 6 cyl motor in it. I
have a copy somewhere of an old issue of "Road & Track" showing a TC with a
Bugatti type 40 motor in it. Comments? Regards, Ron
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