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Re: Where has this century Gone!

To: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>
Subject: Re: Where has this century Gone!
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:11:31 -0700
Cc: Triumph list <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <199912292150.NAA23408@blackie.cruzers.com>
TerriAnn,
I don't have to look in magazines to have such regrets.  All I have to
do is think back to all the cars I have sold that I wish I still had!!!

Joe

TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
> 
> > Complete Chevy V-8 (265 ci) for $125.00)
> > Triumph Carburetors for TR2, 3 and 4's for $38.95 ea.  (Herald carbs for
> > $29.50 ea.)
> 
> If you really want something to cry over, get hold of late sixties Road &
> Track then look in the cars for sale section at the back to see what the
> no longer competitive race cars were going for.  A few thousand dollars
> would have picked up a no longer competitive V12 racing Ferrari.  Or you
> could pick up an old clunker D type Jag on the cheap.
> 
> A person I worked with in '68 picked up a '56 Astin Martin DB3S for $350.
>  It belonged to a kid that choose Canada to the draft.  His Father sold
> it to get more garage space.  The new owner used it as a commute car in
> good weather.  The generator was bad so he would park it under my opening
> window & run an extension cord out to the charger when he drove it to
> work.
> 
> In '67 I looked at a Fiat Arbarth that was for sale for $1500.  Nice read
> double bubble car. I passed it up because I didn't know enough about
> mechanics then to keep it in good running order.
> 
> One era's clunker is another era's classic
> 
> 
> TeriAnn
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