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Re: What's your *best* bit of Treasure?

To: John Macartney <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What's your *best* bit of Treasure?
From: "T.R. Householder" <trhouse@greenapple.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:48:02 -0400
Cc: JC <jc@gt6.co.uk>, Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net>, Triumph 2000 Register <2000-register@autox.team.net>
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Ok , I'll jump in here!!!!!


Churchill Hub Puller
Wooden shipping bumper. TR2 era
Lucas RMS 700 Spot light for the Hard top on the Rally car.
Tool for the TR1 badge .
Tool for early TR2 Tail light bezzel.
Tooling for Doretti Grille.

ETC.  ETC. ETC.

T.R.

John Macartney wrote:

> >I recently wrote: "We're about to start our house build here in Wiltshire,
> >so I guess there won't be much activity on the car front for some time, but
> >it's good to hoard this sort of gear (a PI set up)!!!"
> >Hey, sounds like a new thread!
> >" What is your best bit of Treasure?"
> >Mine is a 2.5 lump in bits and an almost complete triple weber set up!
> >What do you have hoarded, that you occasionally allow to see the light of
> >day, but only to admire before away it's packed?
>
> I've got two key treasure areas. One is 'Canley Girl' in duplicate - but in 
>bits. In fact,
> I've got so many bits, I haven't discovered what all of them are, even though 
>I've had
> them for over a year. The other treasure is in the 'tools' area. One genuine 
>original
> Standard Motor Company workbench. This was one of 500 made to an exacting Air 
>Ministry
> specification for the manufacture of Mosquito airframes in the war and is 
>painted belly
> blue. On the lower shelf, there is a toolbox that Dad had to make to hold all 
>his service
> tools before he was allowed out 'on the road' to service Standard cars in 
>1921. He also
> had to make most of the tools in it and apart from my two sons, these are my 
>greatest
> treasure of all.
>
> Jonmac


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