On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Tom Winslow wrote:
>
> I must have bought a good one! I just drove it back from Little Rock,
> Arkansas and did battle with the trucks on that I-40 corridor!
>
> Question number one:
>
> This TR does not have Electric OD. The '65 that I bought new (33 years ago)
> did and I loved it. Would it make since for me to try to acquire the parts
> and install (or have installed) the electric OD?
>
> Regards,
> Tom Winslow
Tom
This may seem a bit over the top... But here goes anyway.
The original advice came from a Triumph mechanic... buy a rust
bucket with working overdrive. You'll get enough parts you keep
your TR, an overdrive, and may be able to sell what parts you don't
use to recoup the some of the cost of the parts car. If you go
looking for just an overdrive, you'll pay through the nose, trust
me. a month after I paid $600 for the OD tranny alone I ran across
a parts car with OD and factory alloys for about $1000 (I probably
could have hammered the owner down to $800). Since I bought the OD
I had no money for the car.
Greg "with 20/20 hindsight" Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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