I know a TR4/4A (something like that...) here in South Jersey. It sits out
front of a house as though for sale, no sign, though. Sad to look at.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Hansen" <hansenc@zianet.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: A sad, sad sight
> Thought I'd stumbled onto the legendary barn car. I went to our local car
> club meeting; the club is cleaning up a '74 VW Bug for this summer's
> charity raffle. The guy who was loaning space in his barn mentioned that
> he had a old British car under a tarp in the back, had been there for
> years. Remember, this is the desert Southwest USA, I thought I had really
> found something. The shape said TR3. I convinced him to let me look at
it.
>
> Sad, sad sight.
>
> Someone took an air chisel and removed the grill. No headlamps, no
driving
> lights. The fenders are good at the top but swiss cheese at the
> bottoms. The bonnet sits askew. Battery tray is a compacted mass of
> rodent droppings with little metal underneath.
>
> Interior is rotted away. You can see concrete through the floors and it
> was dark back there.
>
> No overdrive.
>
> He admitted that they had lifted the car into the barn with a forklift,
> after it had sat outside for a long, long time. They didn't even clean
the
> dirt away.
>
> Someone with a lot of love and enough money could make a car out of this
> sorry mess. I gather that, even in its present state, the owner (not the
> guy with the barn) is still of the opinion that its worth a lot of money.
>
> On the positive side, that assemblage of parts makes my car look _so_ much
> better.
>
>
> Cliff Hansen
> hansenc@flash.net
> 1966 TR-4A CTC 64615L (new sills and floors and finally a repaired rear
> valence)
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