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Re: [TR] Unexpected treasures?

To: John Macartney <john.macartney@ukpips.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [TR] Unexpected treasures?
From: Joe Burlein <floridatr6@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:37:52 -0500
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
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References: <C97D6B1F-92DF-4BB1-8BDA-9FA00B42D61F@flash.net> <20160310050604.2Y64G.111077.root@cdptpa-web01> <007c01d17ab2$4bd4a710$e37df530$@ukpips.org.uk>
How did that thing stay dry all those years?!  Surely the car has been rained 
on or washed! I don't JonMac, you may to remove it and preserve it for 
posterity. 

Joe B
72 TR6

> On Mar 10, 2016, at 04:50, John Macartney <john.macartney@ukpips.org.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> No *offence* intended in using another make name on the Triumph list but
> last summer I was doing some work to the passenger door on my younger son's
> MG Midget. Having removed door handle, window winder and trimboard there was
> a piece of tape secured to the door that read "the Abingdon jungle bunny was
> here". At the bottom of the door itself was the front and rear page of The
> Oxford Times still perfectly dry and complete. Struck me as a little odd
> that an Abingdon production worker should read such a paper when one might
> normally expect something like page 3 of The Sun which always has a scantily
> clad topless model as its prime attraction :)
> 
> Jonmac
> 
> PS I left the tape and newspaper as I had found them. Seemed a little
> sacrilegious to throw them away?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> glemon@neb.rr.com
> Sent: 10 March 2016 05:06
> To: Wbeech@flash.net; Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] Unexpected treasures?
> 
> I found a spare key in the rear tail light housing of my TR250 when I was
> restoring it.  I later read this was a factory thing for the spare key, wish
> I had left it there.
> 
> Greg Lemon
> 
> ---- "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net> wrote: 
>> Craftsman wrench, guaranteed for life!
>> 
>> Sent from my VIC-64
>> 
>> On Mar 9, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Oddly enough I've been doing a 10 car in 10 days thing on Facebook, and
> just did one on my first ever Triumph, a GT6+.  I have no photos of the car,
> but even though I purchased the thing back in 197? I still have this relic I
> found under the passenger seat.  I bought the car from a Fellow named Eric
> White.
>> 
>> 
>> mjb.
>> 
>> 
>> <ew_wrench.jpg>
>> 
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