> Ed
>
> PS: My "every day driver" is an unrestored '70 El Camino. Even beats
> out the '80 I have<smirk>!!
What Ed! You don't drive an English car every day! And an El Camino at
that... ;-)
Seriously, my TR-6 has been incredibly reliable this year as a daily driver.
So far the maintenance bill hasn't surpassed $80... and $35 of that is for a
Lucas sport coil which I didn't need. I guess most everything that could go
wrong went wrong the first year I had this TR-6 (1999). That isn't to say
things haven't gone wrong... as of last week the driver's door no longer
opens from the inside, and I've developed an ill-sounding starting noise
(bearings), and it drinks a quart of Mobil1 every 150 miles. Daily mileage
for the summer averaged from 20 to 60 miles a day, so it gets a decent work
out.
Engine rebuild is in due course for this winter (heh, I said that last
winter!)!
LBCs can be reliable daily drivers. It also helps if you don't run them
into the ground (learned that after breaking a few TR axles!).
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Kai M. Radicke -- kai@radiohead.net
1974 Triumph TR-6S (as in supercharged!)
http://www.pil.net/~felix/supercharger/
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