OT: Epiphany

"Robatoy" wrote

I would also have to do some training because there quite a bit more
to fabricating solid surface than Lee Michaels seems to think. <G>

======================================

Hey, hey there. I resemble that remark! You know I was just a funnin' ya.
But I never thought there was no skills involved. In fact you are somebody
on this forum that has some real skills.

I was just givin ya some shit about how FAKE the materials are. Not that
this is a bad thing in many cases. Particularly if you end up with a solid
surface that does the job it is intended for.

I am just wonderin' how well you would take to retirement. And I definitely
don't see you giving up your CNC machine. There is a serious relationship
there.

I assume that you can continue to work with the sign makers. Maybe you can
build some of those fancy doll houses!
===

"Robatoy" wrote

One of the guys I read at a forum, makes little victorian screen
doors, gingerbread trim and other 1:12 scale doll-house parts.
He gets some awesome detail...and sales are good.

============================

I went to a sewing expo with my wife one year and saw a guy who makes doll
display cases. It turns out the many people collect dolls and have no way
to display them. They need to keep the dust off and keep them out of the
sun. And, of course, they want to show the dolls off.

I couldn't believe the prices he was charging. And he was taking all kinds
of special orders too. The cases are mostly glass, some hardware and thin
wood strips to hold it all together. I took some measurements and went home
and did some figurin'. He was charging about six to seven times cost of
materials that I could get quickly and locally. And I am sure he is getting
better prices on his materials than me too. So his markup is even higher.

It is obviously a niche market. But those doll collecters spend big money
on their hobby/obsession. And lack of display cases is a common complaint
among these folks.

Maybe it's time to tell my TR3 story. Suffice it to say I was the
third passenger, sitting on the trunk with my legs down in the
passenger seating area, when we hit the curb I was airborne, flipped
and stuck the landing

On Jul 30, 12:15=A0pm, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2:51=A0pm, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:> Robatoy wrote=
:
> > > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> > > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>
> > How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete with par=
ts car
> > (sans front clip).
>
> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
> till 1957(?)
> Like this one:http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg

On Jul 30, 11:51=A0am, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>
> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete with parts=
car
> (sans front clip).

As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
mechanic is included?

Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
Today".

:-)

L.

On Jul 30, 8:08=A0pm, Gerald Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doug Miller wrote:
> > In article<[email protected]=
s.com>, Luigi Zanasi<[email protected]> =A0wrote:
> >>On Jul 30, 11:51=3DA0am, "dadiOH"<[email protected]> =A0wrote:
> >>> =A0Robatoy wrote:
> >>> =A0> =A0------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Tr=
iumph
> >>> =A0> =A0TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>
> >>> =A0How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =3DA0Complete w=
ith parts=3D
> >> =A0car
> >>> =A0(sans front clip).
>
> >>As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
> >>mechanic is included?
>
> >>Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
> >>Today".
>
> >>:-)
>
> > Many years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live in which two me=
n were
> > arguing, each asserting that he himself was stupider than the other:
> > "I'm so dumb, I did X".
> > "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so dumb, I did Y!"
> > for several iterations. Then --
> > "*I* bought a FIAT."
> > [end of argument]
>
> I once owned a Fiat 500. Drove it all over Sicily. It looked like a
> miniature beetle, had two cylinders. It would actually run on one
> cylinder but not very much power.
>

They're Baaaaack......

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/112_0807_fiat_500_abarth_first_d=
rive/index.html

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>TR3..wait.. I NEED one...

I guess that offer came just in time.
You're going to need all your spare time to keep that Triumph
going.;-)

Mike O.

On Jul 30, 1:56=A0pm, [email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]=
.com>, Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Jul 30, 11:51=3DA0am, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =3DA0Complete
>>>with parts car (sans front clip).
>
>>As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
>>mechanic is included?
>
>>Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
>>Today".
>
> Many years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live in which
> two men were arguing, each asserting that he himself was stupider
> than the other:
> "I'm so dumb, I did X".
> "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so dumb, I did Y!"
> for several iterations. Then --
> "*I* bought a FIAT."
> [end of argument]

I am buying a Fiat Ram 2006 2500 SLT (3/4 ton) 4X4 with a Cummings
diesel. Some of us never learn. :-)

Luigi

"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> There was a young man from Boston,
> Who bought himself a new Austin,
> Had room for his ass and a gallon of gas,
> The rest hung out and he lost them.

Then there was, "Ass, gas, or grass; nobody rides for free."

Dave in Houston

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:17:00 -0700, Robatoy wrote:

> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...

Every time I visit the local Triumph dealer, I salivate like Pavlov's
dogs. OK, some of the new stuff is a bit radical for my taste, but the
Thunderbird/Bonnieville look alikes are almost as they used to be. Even
got a scrambler model.

Guess I'll have to wait till my wife wins the lottery - in the meantime
I'm still loving my old '78 SR500 thumper. I've had it since '83!

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:17:00 -0700, Robatoy wrote:

> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...

Oops! I forgot Triumph built cars too :-).

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

Doug Miller wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Mark &
> Juanita <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm wit' ya there. 1988 Sterling, bought new. When I sold it 4 years
>>later, it had a stack of repair orders over 1" thick.
>
> SWMBO and I nearly bought an '86 Sterling -- but after some of the things
> I've read, man oh man oh man am I ever glad the dealer was holding out for
> list price and wouldn't negotiate....

Pretty much guaranteed you dodged a bullet.

When we bought ours, the deal was exactly the opposite, the dealer was
offering what appeared to be a great deal on them. Should have known we
were in for trouble when I had to take the car back the following Monday
because one of the turn indicators wasn't working (missing bulb) and a
couple other nitnoid things were wrong with a brand new car.

--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

Gerald Ross wrote:

> I once owned a Fiat 500. Drove it all over Sicily. It looked like a
> miniature beetle, had two cylinders. It would actually run on one
> cylinder but not very much power.

Not being a car junkie, must say I have had the best of all worlds.

1) Living in SoCal where the car is king and a rag top makes sense to
own and operate.

2) A SO who owned a nice shiny bright red Toyota convertible and let
me drive it with the top down on special occasions, like almost every
time I got to drive it.

Lew

Gerald Ross wrote:

... snip
>
> I once owned a Fiat 500. Drove it all over Sicily. It looked like a
> miniature beetle, had two cylinders. It would actually run on one
> cylinder

That's why it had two -- you at least had a chance that one of them would
actually work.

> but not very much power.
>

--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

Robatoy wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, "dadiOH"<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote:
>> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>> > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>
>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with parts car
>> (sans front clip).
>>
> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
> till 1957(?)
> Like this one: http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg
>
Nothing like the semi-opaque sliding side windows or the rain dripping
on your feet because the battery acid has eaten through it's rack.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

Crime wouldn't pay if the government
ran it.

"dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Robatoy wrote:
>
>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...

Like I'd want to have to live with Lucas electrics again!
I learned my [very expensive] lesson when at the tender [and naive] age of
19 I bought a 5-year old '64 TR4A, complete with wire wheels and 65k miles
or so. The very first day I discovered there were loose teeth floating
around in the rear end. When one would catch in the ring and pinion it
would lock up the rear end which would invite the right rear wire wheel to
spin itself off the drum. I watched it go rolling through a shallow
roadside ditch and jump the barbed wire fence. Probably rolled another
hundred yards or so. I was able to put it back on the car and I did make it
home w/o further incident. That was the first trip to the salvage yard and
the seller agreed to cut and move the axle saddles to fit. The rear axle
continued to "rock" some for the remainder of it's life with me.
Down the road I managed to break the crank it that POS - right over the
front main. It continued to run but sounded like a tank. Another trip to
the salvage yard. IIRC the junkyard crank cost me $65 which seemed like a
lot in 1970. That rebuild also required a salvaged block ("Gee, I've never
seen a block warp like this.") and a J.C.Whitney catalogue. I also learned
that the mid-main would bolt on either way you placed it but that the crank
it would only spin if it was on the correct way. Who would have guessed?
Before I unloaded it towards the end of 1971 I managed to burn it up,
cracking the head in the process. The temp gauge had long since quit and
when the thermostat gasket gave way . . . well, I WAS late for work that
morning. When I pulled into the parking lot after five or six miles on I-10
at 70+ mph the blue smoke poured up through the transmission tunnel. All
that was after the broken crankshaft rebuild. I learned the hard way what
polarizing (?) the voltage regulator meant - it meant buying one twice.
Took $150 for it but still owed the credit union several hundreds of
dollars for the repair loans. Good riddance. Took me more than year to
finish off the loans. In early 1972 I bought my first new car, a '72 Celica
and moved on.
No more British cars for me. Did I mention the body rust on The
Triumph?

Dave in Houston

Doug Miller wrote:
> In article<1c5d96e7-62ce-41ed-b1b2-682eea6386a8@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Luigi Zanasi<[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Jul 30, 11:51=A0am, "dadiOH"<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Robatoy wrote:
>>> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>> > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>>
>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete with parts=
>> car
>>> (sans front clip).
>>
>>As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
>>mechanic is included?
>>
>>Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
>>Today".
>>
>>:-)
>
> Many years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live in which two men were
> arguing, each asserting that he himself was stupider than the other:
> "I'm so dumb, I did X".
> "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so dumb, I did Y!"
> for several iterations. Then --
> "*I* bought a FIAT."
> [end of argument]

I once owned a Fiat 500. Drove it all over Sicily. It looked like a
miniature beetle, had two cylinders. It would actually run on one
cylinder but not very much power.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

Crime wouldn't pay if the government
ran it.

Dave in Houston wrote:

>
> "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Robatoy wrote:
>>
>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>
> Like I'd want to have to live with Lucas electrics again!
> I learned my [very expensive] lesson when at the tender [and naive] age of
> 19 I bought a 5-year old '64 TR4A, complete with wire wheels and 65k miles
... snip
> No more British cars for me. Did I mention the body rust on The
> Triumph?
>
> Dave in Houston

I'm wit' ya there. 1988 Sterling, bought new. When I sold it 4 years
later, it had a stack of repair orders over 1" thick.

--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

Luigi Zanasi wrote:
> On Jul 30, 11:51 am, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote:
>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>
>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with
>> parts car (sans front clip).
>
> As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
> mechanic is included?

I had very few mechanical problems with the car and it was my sole mode of
transportation for almost 30 years.

I did have considerable trouble with so-called professional mechanics
screwing stuff up, no idea why, it is a very simple car mechanically. For
example...

I was on a trip, long (150 mile) detour in Georgia, heavy traffic and slow
going, car stopped running. The local mechanic decided the mechanical fuel
pump needed to be replaced with an electrical one. That didn't fix it - the
distributor was the problem - but I still wound up with the new fuel pump.

Months later I was driving along, top closed, and the compartment fills with
smoke. Turns out the fuel pump "mechanic" had routed the wire to the fuel
pump so that it wasn't secured and ultimately fell onto the manifold where
the insulation immediately burned off shorting the wire and burning out most
of the rest of the wiring. Cost 100s to rewire. The Georgia mechanic
screwed up the distributor repair too.



--

dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

dadiOH wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, "dadiOH"<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Robatoy wrote:
>>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>>
>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with
>>> parts car (sans front clip).
>>>
>> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
>> till 1957(?)
>> Like this one: http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg
>
> Well, to each their own I guess. I used to have a '56 Austin-Healy
> 100/6...I never again want to deal with side curtains, stow in the trunk
> tops or wire spoke wheels. I liked the electric overdrive though.
>
My TR3 had electric overdrive too. It was like having a 7 speed
transmission. After replacing the solenoid which engaged it twice, I
just punched a hole in the hump and attached a piece of haywire with a
loop on the end. It worked fine but was not the same as having a
toggle switch.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

Crime wouldn't pay if the government
ran it.

Robatoy wrote:

> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...

How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with parts car
(sans front clip).

--

dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

On Jul 30, 8:18=A0pm, "Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*[email protected]>
wrote:
> "Robatoy" =A0wrote
>
> I would also have to do some training because there quite a bit more
> to fabricating solid surface than Lee Michaels seems to think. <G>
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> Hey, hey there. =A0I resemble that remark! =A0You know I was just a funni=
n' ya.

Hell Yes, I knew that. So was I.

> But I never thought there was no skills involved. =A0In fact you are some=
body
> on this forum that has some real skills.

No black magic. It is a skill that is relatively easy to acquire.
Common sense and a healthy respect for safety.

> I was just givin ya some shit about how FAKE the materials are. =A0Not th=
at
> this is a bad thing in many cases. Particularly if you end up with a soli=
d
> surface that does the job it is intended for.

Fortunately for me and the guys that work with me, the cheques those
countertops generate aren't fake. *s*

> I am just wonderin' how well you would take to retirement. =A0And I defin=
itely
> don't see you giving up your CNC machine. =A0There is a serious relations=
hip
> there.

It's love. There, I said it. I got that puppy humming opera.

> I assume that you can continue to work with the sign makers. =A0Maybe you=
can
> build some of those fancy doll houses!

One of the guys I read at a forum, makes little victorian screen
doors, gingerbread trim and other 1:12 scale doll-house parts.
He gets some awesome detail...and sales are good.

Today I used my CNC as a jointer. A slab of walnut, 15" x 24" x 1
7/8" . Put it on the table and zig-zagged a 1" bit all over it until I
had one very flat side. I then buzzed it through my planer. I can, in
fact do glued-up tabletops up to 50 x 100".... a nice feature, I
think.

Robatoy wrote:
> I think I had one of those. One definition of epiphany states:
> "3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or
> essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple,
> homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience."
[bandwidth snip]

Bruce Cockburn, eh? Does this mean you're gonna do it? Does this mean
that all your toys will be sold, eh? What will you do then, eh?
eh?
jo4hn

p.s. sounds neat if the price is right.

"Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> SWMBO and I nearly bought an '86 Sterling -- but after some of the things
> I've
> read, man oh man oh man am I ever glad the dealer was holding out for list
> price and wouldn't negotiate....

List price for a Sterling? He may still have it on the lot.

On Jul 30, 2:26=A0pm, jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
> > I think I had one of those. One definition of epiphany states:
> > "3. =A0 a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality o=
r
> > essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple,
> > homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience."
>
> [bandwidth snip]
>
> Bruce Cockburn, eh? =A0Does this mean you're gonna do it? =A0Does this me=
an
> that all your toys will be sold, eh? =A0What will you do then, eh?
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 eh?
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 jo4hn
>
> p.s. sounds neat if the price is right.

That CNC isn't going anywhere. That is one reason I'm even considering
it=97to spend more time with it.
Besides, those countertops are getting heavier by the day.
I might forge a deal which would include my participation on the front-
end. Like sales and estimates....maybe weasel a bit of profit sharing.
I would like to keep access to my toys*COUGHS*tools.
I would also have to do some training because there quite a bit more
to fabricating solid surface than Lee Michaels seems to think. <G>

Robatoy wrote:
> I think I had one of those. One definition of epiphany states:
> "3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or
> essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple,
> homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience."
>

Know what you mean. I often hum a tune for similar reasons. The words go
something like:

Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there -
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev'rywhere.

So prepare, say a pray'r,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over
Over there.

On Jul 30, 2:51=A0pm, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
> > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>
> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete with parts=
car
> (sans front clip).
>
Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
till 1957(?)
Like this one: http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg

Is that when you exclaimed "Poop!" and "Darn!" ?

SonomaProducts.com wrote:
> Maybe it's time to tell my TR3 story. Suffice it to say I was the
> third passenger, sitting on the trunk with my legs down in the
> passenger seating area, when we hit the curb I was airborne, flipped
> and stuck the landing
>
> On Jul 30, 12:15 pm, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:> Robatoy wrote:
>>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with parts car
>>> (sans front clip).
>> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
>> till 1957(?)
>> Like this one:http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg

--
Any given amount of traffic flow, no matter how
sparse, will expand to fill all available lanes.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/

In article <1c5d96e7-62ce-41ed-b1b2-682eea6386a8@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Jul 30, 11:51=A0am, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote:
>> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>> > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>
>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete with parts=
> car
>> (sans front clip).
>
>As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
>mechanic is included?
>
>Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
>Today".
>
>:-)

Many years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live in which two men were
arguing, each asserting that he himself was stupider than the other:
"I'm so dumb, I did X".
"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so dumb, I did Y!"
for several iterations. Then --
"*I* bought a FIAT."
[end of argument]

Gerald Ross wrote:
> Doug Miller wrote:
>> In
>> article<1c5d96e7-62ce-41ed-b1b2-682eea6386a8@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>> Luigi Zanasi<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Jul 30, 11:51=A0am, "dadiOH"<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Robatoy wrote:
>>>> > ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old
>>>> Triumph > TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>>>
>>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? =A0Complete
>>>> with parts=
>>> car
>>>> (sans front clip).
>>>
>>> As a former multiple 70s Fiat owner, I need to ask whether the
>>> mechanic is included?
>>>
>>> Fiat: "Failed Italian Attempt at Transportation" or "Fix It Again
>>> Today".
>>>
>>> :-)
>>
>> Many years ago, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live in which two
>> men were
>> arguing, each asserting that he himself was stupider than the other:
>> "I'm so dumb, I did X".
>> "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so dumb, I did Y!"
>> for several iterations. Then --
>> "*I* bought a FIAT."
>> [end of argument]
>
> I once owned a Fiat 500. Drove it all over Sicily. It looked like a
> miniature beetle, had two cylinders. It would actually run on one
> cylinder but not very much power.

I used to have an X1/9, which was a very nice car except that the heater
wasn't up to a New England winter. Some asshole stole it though and when it
was recovered there wasn't enough left to be worth trying to rebuild.

In article <[email protected]>, "J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I used to have an X1/9, which was a very nice car except that the heater
>wasn't up to a New England winter. Some asshole stole it though and when it
>was recovered there wasn't enough left to be worth trying to rebuild.

I used to have an X-1/9 also -- lots of fun to drive, but what a PITA to
repair. Mine was a '78. What year was yours?

One day, I was unloading mine after a trip to the grocery. Had both trunks
open (for those who don't know, the X-1/9 is a mid-engine car, with a large
luggage compartment in the nose, and a much smaller one behind the engine).
One of the neighborhood kids (about 7 yrs old) wandered over, curious. Peered
in the front trunk. Then the back trunk. Looked up at me, puzzled. "Does this
car have an engine??"

dadiOH wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Robatoy wrote:
>>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>>
>>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with
>>> parts car (sans front clip).
>>>
>> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
>> till 1957(?)
>> Like this one: http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg
>
> Well, to each their own I guess. I used to have a '56 Austin-Healy
> 100/6...I never again want to deal with side curtains, stow in the
> trunk tops or wire spoke wheels. I liked the electric overdrive
> though.

The stow in the trunk top on my Corvette wasn't too bad, except for having
to pull four bolts to remove it.

In news:[email protected],
Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> dropped this bit of wisdom:
> Dave in Houston wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Robatoy wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>=20
>> Like I'd want to have to live with Lucas electrics again!
>> I learned my [very expensive] lesson when at the tender [and naive]
>> age of 19 I bought a 5-year old '64 TR4A, complete with wire wheels
>> and 65k miles ... snip No more British cars for me. Did I
>> mention the body rust on The=20
>> Triumph?
>>=20
>> Dave in Houston
>=20
> I'm wit' ya there. 1988 Sterling, bought new. When I sold it 4
> years later, it had a stack of repair orders over 1" thick.

That sound about like your basic Jag from that time.

I had a 64 AH with wires and side curtains. Liked it so much I got a =
65.
Should have kept them. Just saw a late 65 go for some 60k.
P D Q

In article <[email protected]>, Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm wit' ya there. 1988 Sterling, bought new. When I sold it 4 years
>later, it had a stack of repair orders over 1" thick.

SWMBO and I nearly bought an '86 Sterling -- but after some of the things I've
read, man oh man oh man am I ever glad the dealer was holding out for list
price and wouldn't negotiate....

In article <[email protected]>, "Ed Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>
>> SWMBO and I nearly bought an '86 Sterling -- but after some of the things I've
>> read, man oh man oh man am I ever glad the dealer was holding out for list
>> price and wouldn't negotiate....
>
>List price for a Sterling? He may still have it on the lot.

<g>

Since we were shopping in mid/late '86, it might have been an '87 model we
were looking at -- in any event, I'm almost sure that it was the first year
they were sold in the U.S., so the dealer apparently thought he could get list
price for it. Perhaps he could; perhaps he did -- but not from me. :-)

Robatoy wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote:
>>> ------------ a very slow drive home.... I want another old Triumph
>>> TR3..wait.. I NEED one...
>>
>> How about a cherry, one owner 73' Fiat 124 Spyder? Complete with
>> parts car (sans front clip).
>>
> Too new. I want a 'Smallmouth' TR3.. not a 'A'. They only made them
> till 1957(?)
> Like this one: http://www.triumph-tr3.nl/longdoor.jpg

Well, to each their own I guess. I used to have a '56 Austin-Healy
100/6...I never again want to deal with side curtains, stow in the trunk
tops or wire spoke wheels. I liked the electric overdrive though.

--

dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

"SonomaProducts.com" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Maybe it's time to tell my TR3 story. Suffice it to say I was the
third passenger, sitting on the trunk with my legs down in the
passenger seating area, when we hit the curb I was airborne, flipped
and stuck the landing


9.0 !

Dave in Houston

"Dave in Houston" wrote:

> No more British cars for me. Did I mention the body rust on The
> Triumph?


There was a young man from Boston,
Who bought himself a new Austin,
Had room for his ass and a gallon of gas,
The rest hung out and he lost them.

Lew

"Luigi Zanasi" wrote:

> I am buying a Fiat Ram 2006 2500 SLT (3/4 ton) 4X4 with a Cummings
diesel. Some of us never learn. :-)

I assume the above is a typo.

Think you mean Cummins, based in Columbus, IN; however, based on the
size, it's probably coming out of Rocky Mount, NC, a joint venture to
produce small diesels between Cummins and Case (J I Case) to compete
with Deere and the off shore stuff in the construction equipment
market.

Lew