[V8] Ah...the TR's...

Mon May 14 19:22:05 EDT 2007

I had a 74 TR6 long ago while in college.  Never did put a new top on
it.  Drove year round back and forth, about 30 miles round trip.  Of
course this was in LA so not too much of a challenge.

Aside from the looks and the sound of which both are responsible for
my ownership, about the best thing I can say about it was it had a
great heater.  ;-)

I did enjoy that car though and even though I had the transmission
rebuilt twice, I still am glad I owned it and wish I had kept it as
they have never done anything but appreciate.

Supposedly the guy who bought mine was shipping a boat load of them
overseas somewhere, I forget where.

Oh well.

On 5/14/07, Roger M. Woodbury <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> wrote:
> For a brief few months between ending my two years' teaching career and
> going in to the USAF, I got a summertime job doing something that I had
> always wanted to do, and that was sell cars.
>
> The stealership that I worked for sold six brands of new cars and a slew of
> used (mostly clapped out) ones.  We sold Peugeot, Volvo, Renault (!),
> Triumph, Fiat and a really strange American car wannebe called Toyota.
>
> Triumph had two models that it sold here at that time.  There was the rather
> ubiquitous Spitfire and a successor to the TR4 called the TR-250.  Later it
> became a more or less REAL car, called the TR6.
>
> The TR-250 was a stone of the first order.  It was slow, ponderous and
> handled worse than an overloaded oxcart. I sold one to someone and it burst
> into flames not long after delivery.  I drove one to Providence to trade
> with a stealership down there, and had an awful trip.
>
> Fortunately, I went off to the war in Southeast Asia and escaped having to
> have anything more to do with those awful cars.
>
> Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: justin.bowers at comcast.net [mailto:justin.bowers at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:10 PM
> To: Roger M. Woodbury; cobram at juno.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Ah...the TR's...
>
> Wow, what a funny trip down memory lane!
>
> My father had a TR6 that  he loved.  When it came time for ME to purchase my
> first car at the ripe old age of 16 he found a TR4A that someone had
> neglected for what appeared to be its entire life.  :)
>
> In the end, I wasn't able to purchase the car for several reasons...1. The
> guy believed the car was made of gold and even though he had neglected it
> for years it was still worth as much as one in pristine condition.  2.  My
> dad wasn't all that interested in working on, repairing, or chipping in to
> sort out all that was wrong with it.  3.  Did I mention I had just turned
> 16, had very little money, a part time job that paid peanuts, etc.?  :)
>
> Anyway, I've always liked the looks of the TR's (anything from the TR6 era
> or earlier), and I certainly have fond memories of riding around in my
> fathers (even though he only let me drive it one time - and he was in the
> car, and it was just around the block!).
>
> Justin
> 01 S8q
> 90 V8q
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net>
> > My '61 Triumph TR3A when I was an undergraduate.  My best friend next door
> > had a '64 Triumph TR4.  Sunday's were reserved for tinkering by the side
> of
> > the road with the two British Racing Green cars.
> >
> > I got pretty good with SU carburetors and all sort of other things.  I
> > managed at some point to take apart the electric switch that engaged the
> > overdrive.  When it all got back together...and I have NO idea what
> > happened, I managed to get eight speeds out of the transmission...
> >
> > Not that it mattered really, but I could get an overdrive in each of the
> > four forward speeds.
> >
> > To this day, I have NO idea how that happened.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cobram at juno.com [mailto:cobram at juno.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:03 PM
> > To: rmwoodbury at adelphia.net
> > Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [V8] $59000....nope
> >
> >  "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> writes:
> >
> > > That great tractor motor up front was sluggish to say the least.
> >
> > I have a transmission out of one somewhere out of some English car.  I
> > can't remember what I pulled it out of, but it's a tractor transmission,
> > literally, all they did was slap it in the car with a bolted piece of
> > steel over reduced 1st gear, so 2nd tractor gear becomes...ta da....1st
> > motor carriage gear.  R&D, what's that, a pub in Brighton?
> >
> > BCNU,
> > http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> > Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant
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