Wilsons Sandbox

Go to the top of the class Jim. Its perfect logic isn't it? Murray Arundell

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] mink@enter.net [b]To:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Friday, 24 August 2001 1:03 pm [b]Subject:[/b] [mg-tabc] TC action I just want to make sure I have this right. If I change the steering on my TC for one that works, this is wrong! On the other hand, if I change the entire drive train, the bonnet etc. I will have a TC(?) worth $30,000. I guess I just don't understand. Jim Mink Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

Please enlighten me ... are we talking about a rebodied TR4... or a bastardised TC? $30,000? Well, it proves one thing beyond doubt.. the old proverb "Fools and their money are soon parted" Jeff TC3306

----- Original Message ----- From: Want1937hd@aol.com> To: mink@enter.net>; mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] TC action > Collector cars sometimes take on a life of their own. The TC in question and > its former owner were unique. There are far too many "perfect" TC's is is > nice to see a nice driver racing down the road. Bob TC4956 > > my TC for one that works, this is wrong! On the other hand, if I change > the entire drive train, the bonnet etc. I will have a TC(?) worth $30,000. I > guess I just don't understand. Jim Mink >> > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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>Collector cars sometimes take on a life of their own. The TC in question

and its former owner were unique. There are far too many "perfect" TC's is is nice to see a nice driver racing down the road. Bob TC4956

Jeff & Merryl Redman wrote: ".........Well, it proves one thing beyond doubt.. the old proverb

> "Fools and their money are soon parted"

I always thought the proverb went, "A fool and his money are soon partying" Badger

> .........just want to make sure I have this right. If I change the > steering on my TC for one that works, this is wrong! On the other > hand, if I change the entire drive train, the bonnet etc. I will have a TC(?) worth $30,000. > I guess I just don't understand. Jim Mink

YES! This is exactly so! The whole thing about these cars is, "character", "charm", "personality". The thing about Japanese cars is that while they perform perfectly, they are totally lacking in "personality" while T-cars have lots of faults but are positively dripping with charm and personality. By making a T car perform more like a modern Japanese car, that is, steer with perfection, not drip oil, etc. one is actually robbing it of the very qualities that make it unique and charming - its personality. While I have only seen the Miles car in pictures, it is not hard to see that the alterations that were made to it were aimed at giving that wonderful car a unique personality all its own rather than robbing it of the qualities that make T cars special. The applying of terms like, personality and character to an automobile is difficult to explain in logical terms so lots of well meaning people will "not get it". It's the sort of concept that one either understands instinctively or he will never understand. To Viv's comment that this car would have been "....... fitted with an alien steering box......surely this would have been the first "improvement" ..........". I have no personal knowledge of this car but I'll bet the steering box would have been of little or no concern. In short, for most of us, T cars tend to appeal to the emotional side rather than to the rational - as proof, I submit the tremendous affection with which this one very unoriginal but very charming car is remembered by so many people but there will always be those, with their Datson steering boxes and such, who just don't "get it". Badger - who gets it.