Hello All,
I got a lead on an Alpine at our Brit car club meeting, from a Triumph
owner, he said " it has a V6 and the front is not like yours, they want
$700". Well you never know, and as it was at a place I drive by often
when working, why not look. The car turned out to be a SV that had had
a cutting torch used to install a GM V6 auto trans... water pipe and
chain sort of held it in. There are a few things missing a like master
cyl, clutch cyl, and steering all the creature comforts are gone seats,
carpet, floor, windshield, tail lights ect it was sad. The car sat there
in all of its misery with a cobra nose and I thought "well not even any
parts" Then I noticed that there were window cranks, so for the heck of
it I gave one a turn, and the window went up and down like it was new.
The driver side also worked without a hitch, I looked at the inside of
the doors and the mechanisms looked new, the channels the windows sit in
were gleaming their black rubber firmly gripping the window. This on a
car with no top no interior door panels sitting outside in a junk yard.
What I would not give for windows that go up and down like that.. maybe
they need the ventilation to keep from going to bits and all that inside
storage is not what it is cracked up to be. Just for fun I tried to buy
just the window mechanisms, but it was not to be. Still all in all it
was worth the trip even if just to see two windows that go up and
down. jim SV [still gathering parts for the new motor]
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