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Re: Is there such a thing as a TR6 in Showroom Condition?

To: Scions of Stanpart <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Is there such a thing as a TR6 in Showroom Condition?
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:37:36 -0400 ()
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 VK0216@aol.com wrote:

> To me, and maybe I am out in leftfield on this, but when a car is sited as 
> "showroom condition", I pretty much think of when I bought my first TR6 from 
> a Triumph dealer in Cleveland in 1976.  Every single part on it was new, 
> including the oil leak I had the first week of ownership but thats another 
> story.

Virgil, if you REALLY want showroom condition, there should be traces of
cosmoline around various edges of trim strips and lamps; little "spec"
stickers or traces of same on lamp lenses; tufts of polyethylene sticking
out from around the door panels where the protective covering wasn't
completely removed; trim rings and/or other bits still in boxes in the
trunk....

At least that is what I remember of "showroom" cars at my local dealers
back then!

Rest assured that most show judges do NOT deduct for either presence or
absence of any of the above features. ;-)

--Andy

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