I will chime in here as well. My first (but not last) experience with a
total basket case was with a Triumph TR6R motorcycle some years ago. I
bought it because I had had a TR7 motorcycle (1973) years earlier and
wanted to get another bike. I figured, how tough can it be.
Well, pretty tough. Armed with parts manuals, and shop manuals, I still
had great difficulty figuring out which side of a fitting held the rubber
distance piece, and where the dojag actually went on the thingamagig.
I did get it together, after finally buying another TR6R to use as a guide
to reassembling the basket case. So there is a lot to what the previous
writers have said.
M. W. Jordan, Jr.
Greenwood, MS
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> From: DUHART JOHN <duhart@symbol.com>
> To: Return requested <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Car in a box
> Date: Thursday, May 15, 1997 1:53 PM
>
> >Paul Arildsen wrote:
> >A little help? A little encouragement? A little reality!
> > I have an oppourtunity to pick up a 1960 TR-3A for $1500.
> > It's at a dealer and he says that even though its in boxes
> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >Paul - while I don't have any personal experience with TR3s, I can think
> of
> >some questions I'd want the answers to if I were you.......
> >
> >How's your mechanical skill level? Can you rebuild it without knowing
> where
> >all of the parts went in the first place? Having "tried" to put
> together a
> >'68 Pontiac Firebird in pieces I can attest that it is far more
> difficult
> >than taking a car apart and putting it back together. How much of the
> car
> >is missing? Are the missing parts that you will eventually need readily
>
> >available? Sorry if these are self-evident questions. It may be that
> this
> >is a terrific opportunity and even if you can't build it you can always
> sell
> >the parts to other list members.
> >
> >Ross D. Vincenti - Costa Mesa, CA
> >64 Spitfire 4
> >64 Porsche 356C Coupe
>
> I have to agree with Ross here. If you don't have a good/great
> knowledge about this car I would be careful. I started my TR6 rebuild
> back in Oct. Everything is currently in boxes waiting to be put back
> together. Everything I pull a bag of bolts out of a box I thank goodness
> I labeled each bag. Just this morning I grabbed a bag and was quite
> surprised to read I was looking at bolts that attached the front-cross
> member (my term).
>
> Later,
> JHD IV
>
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