Taking a gift horse to the orthodontist (Triumph TR3)

[Alaska Ranger]

This morning's email includes one that contains this:

"....a sweet little TR4A just waiting for the
final touches that I know you would look "smashing" (in the best
of British way) driving - just the sort of red sports car every couple look good in!


Well, even at the right price - I'm thinking $0 - I'm wondering whether this may be too expensive. I can drive a TR4 exactly 21 miles up and down the Denali Highway. That is, I might, and occasionally do, drive my '06 TDI onto the gravel portion of our famous road, but the Triumph will have even less clearance than that, so I could responsibly stick only to that small amount - 21 miles - of pavement. Besides, it's from the early '60s....so that leaves me all dressed down (it's a convertible, of course) and no place to go.

Also, I know exactly what that famous "final touches" clause means....

And, of course, it's 4,000 miles away on the left coast...

Anyone want to trade for a Troopy? How about some blinker fluid?....spark plugs for my 3B?....a decal?.....

 

[GOZ 2 11]

My dad still has the TR4 he bought in 1965. It's made several cross country trips and spend several years touring Europe. He rarely drives it anymore and I think my mom would like to have the extra space in the garage for more of her stuff. Every time I make it home the battery is always dead or some other ailment that keeps it from running. If you do get it, plan on having a mechanic versed on British electrics live with you. I could think of few things I'd rather not do than drive it in Alaska in the Winter. Cheers!

 

[Alaska Ranger]

Every time I make it home the battery is always dead or some other ailment that keeps it from running.

Yaaah - Lord Lucas the Prince of Darkness certainly holds those Triumphs in thrall. On the other hand....who cares about light in our Alaska summers?!?!?!?!

Should I talk to your Mom....when your Dad's not around?

 

[GOZ 2 11]

Best we keep it. I've seen projects like these tear families apart. As long as he's satisfied it's not running, she's satisfied not pouring any money into it. Nothing like a broken down Triumph to keep the family together. I'll probably have to dump my girlfriend if I ever acquire it.

 

[toyrunner]

This morning's email includes one that contains this:

"....a sweet little TR4A just waiting for the
final touches that I know you would look "smashing" (in the best
of British way) driving - just the sort of red sports car every couple look good in!


Well, even at the right price - I'm thinking $0 - I'm wondering whether this may be too expensive. I can drive a TR4 exactly 21 miles up and down the Denali Highway. That is, I might, and occasionally do, drive my '06 TDI onto the gravel portion of our famous road, but the Triumph will have even less clearance than that, so I could responsibly stick only to that small amount - 21 miles - of pavement. Besides, it's from the early '60s....so that leaves me all dressed down (it's a convertible, of course) and no place to go.

Also, I know exactly what that famous "final touches" clause means....

And, of course, it's 4,000 miles away on the left coast...

Anyone want to trade for a Troopy? How about some blinker fluid?....spark plugs for my 3B?....a decal?.....

I would love another TR4! Where and when?

 

[Alaska Ranger]

Where's the TR4???

Ahem.
umm....

Must be my location. When I look....down....from here on the lesser-48...

...the "left coast" is the other coast. You know - the one closest to England.

Maybe I should have used other terminololology.

Anyway, I'm off to the East Coast to pick up my new F350, which Ford will have finished banging together in mid-December, then off to Tepui's land (Chile, and also Peru) in Jan and Feb. Will be driving back home in March; so what the hey - California's hardly out of my way. Got a FJ47 ya wanna trade for the TR4???

 

[toyrunner]

Twenty years ago, this was my project 63 TR4