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Re: [TR] Relative values

To: "Joe Burlein" <supertr6@earthlink.net>, "Andrew Uprichard"
Subject: Re: [TR] Relative values
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:42:31 -0000
Joe Burlein wrote:

>I think the upgrades detract from the overall value.  For big money, you want 
>original or as close 
>as you can get.  Just my 2 cents.

Well, thanks to everyone for their replies and guidance. Sure looks as though 
sidescreeners are 
beginning to make the money in the US that they've been making here for a while.

Andy Mace was right in his statement that the bulk of sports car shipments went 
to North America and 
this is why prices in the US have remained low by comparison. Its all down to 
supply and demand in 
virtually any commodity. Make anything desirable difficult to obtain and the 
price always goes up or 
the residual values of used stays high. Sidescreeners have been like chicken's 
teeth in Europe for 
years and have always commanded high prices - even for trash condition.

As for wanting something that just looks and probably is original in 
appearance, that's not really 
my scene. I was lucky(?) enough to see hundreds of Triumphs that were as 
original as they come - 
when they were new and straight off the line. IMHO, they were just plain 
uninteresting because they 
all looked the same. The 'originality' (for me) comes in when you pit the 
technology of fifty or 
more years ago against modern vehicles. Not only engine performance but 
gearing, tyre and braking 
technology and overall handling. I've had a lot of fun that way in taking an 
older car *almost* to 
its safe limits against the best of modern mass produced stuff and when you do 
that - and come out 
ahead of the other guy, or you make him mad by so doing - that's where 
'originality' comes to the 
fore. Dare I say it, or has it got something to do with the ability to safely 
push older technology 
to the limit? Yes, miles on the odometer, squashed flies on the paintwork, the 
smell of a hot engine 
and brake pad dust on the wheels.

Jonmac 
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