A Parts cars should be cheap...particularly if you intend to scrap
them.
I recently bought a complete 74 TR-6 for $100.00...removed the engine,
trans, drive shaft, differential, glass, chrome, master and slave
cylinders, radiator, dash (in excellent shape) and gauges, seats,
spare tire and tool kit, jack and all lighting fixtures. Sold the
bonnet, front valance, air inlet shroud and boot lid to an insurance
company for about $500.00. Two wheels appeared ok but later turned
out to be bent...the near new exhaust system is in the attic. I
traded the carbs, and gave away (to a friend) the chrome gas tank
filler cap. A local junk yard came and took the rusted floorpans,
fenders, and frame for free...tho may have given me $5.00 if I had
been around to ask for it.
I was sorry the frame couldn't have been saved.
Shop around...a TR-6 parts car should be cheap.
I know of a complete, "rust free", 73 TR-6 which was just bought for
$3000.00 from original owners who had put nearly all of 60,000 miles
on the car...it has now been disassembled for restoration, but is a
much nicer car than my 73 which has received good care, many new parts
and new imron paint (and more than 170,000 miles) since I bought it in
80. (I
An overdrive unit should be worth $5-800, rear differential
$3-500...but a complete car with lots of rust should be worth just
what it is worth to you to expend the work necessary to get pieces and
parts...
a TR-6 parts car should be cheap!
PMcQ
73 TR-6
72 GT-6
69 GT-6+ (2)
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Subject: Re: parts car
Author: ak627@dayton.wright.edu at Internet
Date: 4/1/97 11:11 AM
A.J. Hankens wrote :
>I have 76 TR6 after replacing the fuel pump with a electric it runs great.I
>may replace the carpet later but thats about it.I told my wife I was
>thinking about looking for a parts car,to put up on blocks for down the
>road,I plan on keeping this car for a long time,I guess what I'm asking
>what is what kind of price range,I looked at 74 for $1600 it ran but needs
>,int, body work,carbs.After I got home I realized I love triumphs that I
>would have fixed it up,I could not have set it up on blocks,it have been a
>waste of a great car,maybe I'm going about this wrong I'll tell her its a
>parts car and fix it up anyway! A.J.Hankins TR6 that runs
>great
>
..and if you are asking what price range to expect for a parts car,
there was a '69 sold recently in my neighborhood north of Dayton,
Ohio, for $350. that was more or less complete, but very rusty and
generally dilapidated. If I had a TR-6, I would have jumped on
that one, at that price. This is about as cheap as I would expect
to find a complete car these days.
Many more 2-cent data points available, inquire.
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio
'72 TRident 750cc basket case
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