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Re: Car Lists

To: "Jim Gambony" <gambony@hotmail.com>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Car Lists
From: "John Peacock" <pearesto@totcon.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:31:26 -0800
Jim 

You should sell it or give it to someone that appreciates it.

John

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> From: Jim Gambony <gambony@hotmail.com>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re:  Car Lists
> Date: Friday, October 31, 1997 9:52 AM
> 
> John,
> 
> As for the TR7, I currently have one being parted in my backyard because 
> the local import parts yard wouldn't "take" the car, even as a 
> "donation" because it would take valuable space in his yard. And yes, I 
> do have title for the car.  Evidently the last TR7 he took in the yard 
> sat for more than a year without any parts sold.  His suggestion was to 
> take it down directly to the scrap dealer, they might take it in.  
> 
> Do I dare admit that I only bought the car for the Western Wheel turbine 
> wheels? (identical to the ones on my Spit autox car)  Didn't hurt that 
> it's a 5 speed!
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
> John Peacock wrote:(snip)
>  TR7 sold more than any other Triumph but where are they.  Don't tell me
> in salvage yards either because I have checked almost everyone in FL and
> there are hardly any there.
> 
> Sadly, the TR7 ariived on the scene just as junk yards were transforming
> themselves into "auto recyclers"! Up until the mid '70's, junk yards
> would get a car in, and it would stay there. I remember seing stacks of
> '40's and 50's iron in every bone yard I visited in that time period. If
> you see a car more than 15 years old in the yard today, it really stands
> out.
> Nowadays, as auto recyclers, they'll get a car in, let it be parted out
> for maybe 18 months, then it's off to the crusher for the scrap metal
> value. This generates cash flow, and frees up space in the yard for the
> process to start over again.
> And the TR7, which hit the bone yard real fast, it didn't have the
> enthuisist following that the earlier TR's did. A car that was badly
> built as the TR7 didn't inspire people to keep fixing it. It was more
> likely hauled to the crusher after the head warped for the 2nd or 3rd
> time. And, the TR7's compettion, the RX7, MR2, etc... had a level of
> reliabilty that BL had no hope of matching.
> 
> 
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