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1. TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Charles F. Inman" <floydinman@compuserve.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:23:17 -0600; A friend is looking for a "Show Quality" TC. What that means I do not know. Anyone knowing of or having a quality TC they are interested in selling, please contact: Mike Bailey (801) 743-2875 sharon.; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00058.html (7,395 bytes)
2. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: KEN PORTER <kporter@unix.asb.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:11:19 -0400; If you want an outstanding TC contact Geoff Weatley at <MDandGI@webtv.net> or call Geoff at (315) 859-0962. I have seen this car and it is worth every penny of the $35,000 Geoff is asking. Ken TC 414; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00064.html (7,785 bytes)
3. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:32:37 -0400; I agree. You could not restore one to the condition of his for anywhere near that price. Bob or penny know. Canada.; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00065.html (8,089 bytes)
4. RE: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Moorhead, Tim" <TMoorhead@leapnet.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:17:08 -0500; Dear Listers - IMHO, you can find many, many "show quality TC's" for far, far less than $35,000. Tim in Dallas; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00067.html (8,686 bytes)
5. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:20:43 -0700; And, yet, why is this? The present-day cost of professionally building a correct "Show-quality" TC is about $40,000. So, either there are great variations in peoples' ideas of what really is "Show qu; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00069.html (9,642 bytes)
6. RE: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Moorhead, Tim" <TMoorhead@leapnet.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:53:48 -0500; Thanks for the reply. You use the words "professionally building" and cite a 40,000 figure. This doesn't mean that the car is worth that amount of money. I have found that one can get upside-down fa; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00071.html (9,716 bytes)
7. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: JustBrits@aol.com; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:21:25 EDT; << I have personally restored a TD and a TF to what I (and my fellow club members) would term "correct show quality", and didn't get upside-down on either of them. Some work was done "professionally"; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00072.html (8,654 bytes)
8. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:15:16 -0700; And I guess my point, Tim, is that we -as owners and restorers of these cars - should do all we can to change that situation! If we, the "experts", decry the high prices and tell the world at large t; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00073.html (11,647 bytes)
9. RE: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Moorhead, Tim" <TMoorhead@leapnet.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:27:17 -0500; Dear Listers - Seems like I've stirred up a hornet's nest. I'd like to point out that I restored the cars purely as a hobby. I just enjoy doing it. Since I am an "office worker", going to the garage; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00074.html (10,163 bytes)
10. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu (Mark Hineline); Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:42:06 -0700 (PDT); This is an interesting question that will never have a suitable answer. But here is a possible rule of thumb. Let us suppose that someone buys a TC new in 1948 and drives it 60 miles per year for 52; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00075.html (8,855 bytes)
11. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@bcpl.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:40:40 -0400 (EDT); Lawrie, this "what is it worth" debate has been going round and round as long as I've been involved with T-Types. It's interesting that the $35,000 someone is looking to pay now is $7,925 in 1970 dol; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00076.html (11,295 bytes)
12. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "British Sportscar Center" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:59:41 -0700; No argument from this corner, Chip! But I still stick to my main point which was that we in the hobby and in the trade need to discourage the spread of the belief that T-types are not worth a whole l; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00077.html (13,181 bytes)
13. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@bcpl.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:11:38 -0400 (EDT); On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, British Sportscar Center wrote to Chip Old and...: I agree, Lawrie, but on the other hand I don't want potential sellers to have unrealistic expectations. I've seen too many hurt; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00078.html (8,752 bytes)
14. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Charles F. Inman" <floydinman@compuserve.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:08:28 -0600; Oh, good. A Cat Fight! Haven't seen one of these since someone tried to define a paint color. Floyd that who's to it to "Blue that This that Does show a what to; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00079.html (12,849 bytes)
15. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:45:17 -0400; I've seen lots of $25,000 TCs that look good, but when you put them next to an authentic restoration that has had careful consideration paid to lining up the front fenders correctly, doing the chrome; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00080.html (9,502 bytes)
16. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@mail.monmouth.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:47:19 -0400; Am I missing something here? Do the rules of economics not apply? Isn't price a function of demand and supply. What's different here, is a mix of emotion and hobby. Each person in the hobby has diffe; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00083.html (10,394 bytes)
17. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: JustBrits@aol.com; Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:52:29 EDT; << If you've spent $40,000 to restore the car and expect to get at least that much out of it, then it may take a very long time to sell the car. BINGO, Chip (and well said)!!! Cheers.......... Ed; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00085.html (7,680 bytes)
18. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu (Mark Hineline); Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:39:56 -0700 (PDT); Fred Leckstein asks rhetorically: Yes, price is a function of demand and supply. But, oh so imperfectly! The ideal venue through which price might be set is a closed market, such as the New York Stoc; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00086.html (9,457 bytes)
19. RE: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: "Bill Harkins" <bharkins@tfb.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:02:36 -0700; On the other side of this, imagine an owner-restorer who knows how to beat metal, has a mill and a metal lathe and knows how to use them, and who has a pal across town with a forge and a foundry. Not; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00092.html (7,896 bytes)
20. Re: TC Wanted (score: 1): Author: hineline@helix.ucsd.edu (Mark Hineline); Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:31:48 -0700 (PDT); You've confused me now. I will give you the chrome plating, but that's about all. Back in Maine I knew a machinist who retired from Bath Iron Works and bought up most of the shop to take with him, b; /html/mg-t/2000-08/msg00093.html (7,915 bytes)

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