TC action

[Shirley Mink]

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

[murray arundell]

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.

[Want1937hd@aol.com]

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 << 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 >>

[Jeff & Merryl Redman]

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/ > >

[C Sherriff]

Message text written by INTERNET:Want1937hd@aol.com

>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

[mrbadger]

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

[Viv James TraX Interconnect (Pty.) Ltd]

You've got it Jim. The whole fun part of this list is that most of us are an illogical bunch of buggers! Nobody mentioned whether this little red wheeled non indigenous cause of memory lane emotions among our members was fitted with an alien steering box but surely this would have been the first "improvement" before fitting a Fergussen tractor engine and prettied up bonnet/hood/engine cover. Viv (Datsun steering + Furneaux 1/2 shafts and electronic voltage regulators in 2 so called bog standard TCs only ever driven by little old ladies neither of which will fetch $30K) .........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

[joecurto@aol.com]

Bob I have to agree with Jim on this one, while I like a car to be personalized if I wanted to drive a Triumph than I would buy one, on the other hand a nice "street rod" is a joy in its own right but it is not a MG or what ever the base line car was. Joe

[mrbadger]

> .........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.

[Want1937hd@aol.com]

I know this subject will never end, but we buy colector cars because we like them for personal reasons. The 110% original vs. modified battle will never end. A stone stock 1932 Ford roadster in the best National first prise condition is worth 25% of a highly modified 1932 Ford roadster that wins the Oakland National Roadster show. I like the Clydesdales that pull that Budweiser beer wagon, but you'll never see one in the winners circle at the Kentucky Durby. Apples and oranges. Bob TC4956 << Well, it proves one thing beyond doubt.. the old proverb "Fools and their money are soon parted" >>