Tell you what Fred. I'll be happy to take that o/d out of there for you and
"carl" the rest away - I mean "cart" the rest away.....
Sitting with crossed fingers... (for you)
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Thomas [SMTP:vafred@erols.com]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 3:00 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: The old garage story
Listers, we have all heard it, but have never had it happen to us.
Today
driving into the shopping center parking lot, a elderly gent
approached
me and asked about my "3", we talked for a few minutes and he then
informed me he had a 1959 T/R 3-A with a non-working O/D unit, and
he
had no idea how to repair it, we talked some more, and he was
starting
to repair the O/D when his wife told him we have no money for those
repairs as I am expecting our first child so the car has to wait. He
pushed it to the back of his garage and let it sit due to his
money/child problems, this occurred in 1961 and the car still sits
in
his garage, I have a date with him next Tuesday to go for a look
see, he
is very interested in getting it a new home, it has never been out
of
the garage since then and he has raised 5 children. He is not
interested
in a rebuild or parting-out, just "want the damn thing to go away".
Could this be the lost city of gold coming to my front door, or just
a
bucket of rust, I'll let you all know Tues. No Carl the O/D is
attached
to the car.
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