Barn finds!! Another gem!!!

Cookie-boy · 11-07-2009, 09:47 AM

I don't know about you but if I pass a rickety old shop with the sign half hanging off the wall and a couple of windows boarded up then I have to go in and have a poke around. Same with Garage sales, I can't park up and get in there quick enough, and I have found one or two things worth having over the years.

But the thing I get most excited about are barns. If I happen to find myself alone and unsupervised in a farmyard, well.................

No!!!!!!! Not that!!!!! Barns!!!! Get in there and have a "shuftie" about. I've found all sorts over the years, cars, antiques.........I once found a pair of matching cushion moulded oak dressers that were 17th century and being used as nesting boxes for chickens. OK that was thirty years ago but now they'd be worth as much as a Burst and not the five grand I got for them.

Which brings me to yesterday. I was out with some mates having a little walk around shoot and we called in at the farm for a rest and a bit of lunch. I wandered around like I do, and there inside a grain dryer I found this.........

The only down side is that the rats have made it their home.............

.............1975 Triumph TR6. I've made an offer and I think I own it.

HARDWEAR · 11-07-2009, 10:04 AM

Not a lot of barns around here but I'm the same way...especially with garage sales...ya just never know. Great find!

Drudeboy · 11-07-2009, 10:07 AM

And it comes with a free can of coke!

mrpesca · 11-07-2009, 10:12 AM

You've got your work cut out for you. Now what the heck are you going to do with that? Relive your youth?

Hyper · 11-07-2009, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drudeboy

And it comes with a free can of coke!

And an Alpine! Nice find!

LazyDays · 11-07-2009, 10:17 AM

I hope the offer doesn't include the rats.

AXE · 11-07-2009, 10:18 AM

I had a few acquaintances in my youth that owned TR-6s'.

And there is a reason you found it IN-THE-BARN.

Good luck and happy rubbing.

PapaSquash · 11-07-2009, 10:24 AM

Triumphs are oxcarts! (says any MG owner)

I think I had the same stereo in a Midget once. The same six square buttons. 1980's style where the whole unit slid out, instead of the modern removeable faceplate. Convertibles are radio theft bait.

Alloy wheels are OK. No real serious cancer visible. Do I detect a reasonably modern tread pattern? If so, It hasn't been off the road all that long. I'd take it.

Cookie-boy · 11-07-2009, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AXE

I had a few acquaintances in my youth that owned TR-6s'.

And there is a reason you found it IN-THE-BARN.

Good luck and happy rubbing.

Yeah! Always breaking down. I believe if you throw the Lucas fuel pump away and install a Bosch one then your chances of a nervous breakdown are halved!!!!

JohnQ · 11-07-2009, 10:41 AM

Post some pics after you get the dust off her. Triumphs are cool cars.

Cookie-boy · 11-07-2009, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrpesca

You've got your work cut out for you. Now what the heck are you going to do with that? Relive your youth?

I was hoping you'd give it a visual appraisal!!!!

I haven't dare open the hood for fear of what lurks beneath!!!

I owned a V12 Jaguar XJS about 20 years agoo and one year over Christmas holidays a rat stored about 30 apples in a nest between the V of the 12!!!!

I don't know who was more shocked when I opened it up, the rodent or me!

AXE · 11-07-2009, 10:47 AM

I would like to know which power plant, if you can call it that' it has.
Seems I recall a lot of top end valve lash as well as oiling issues.

If I can make the trip I'd love to spin a few metric wrenches on it with you for a day.

I'm quite handy like that.

Cookie-boy · 11-07-2009, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AXE

I would like to know which power plant, if you can call it that' it has.
Seems I recall a lot of top end valve lash as well as oiling issues.

If I can make the trip I'd love to spin a few metric wrenches on it with you for a day.

I'm quite handy like that.

You're on!!!

The lump is a 2500 Triumph pi unit. Straight six.

H.E.L.Shane · 11-07-2009, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cookie-boy

I

.............1975 Triumph TR6. I've made an offer and I think I own it.

I hate you

jomo · 11-07-2009, 11:33 AM

Dammit, I'm at work today and didn't bring my laptop (because I rode ma choppa) and photobucket is blocked on this POS, so I can't see the pictures yet, but damn you Cookie boy!! Good luck with it ma man!!

Boleskinehouse · 11-07-2009, 11:39 AM

Those Triumphs are cool looking little cars. I'm sure there are many things you can do to it now that would make it much more reliable. (There goes AXE being a dick again)

Congrats.

nsureit · 11-07-2009, 11:42 AM

Cookie, too much work required to restore this one...everything on the dash is backwards!

LongBeach · 11-07-2009, 12:44 PM

I'm going to have to agree with nsureit.
It's probably going to cost allot of $ to get
the steering wheel, pedals, etc. moved over to
the correct side of car

seriously, nice find Cookie

have fun cleaning her up!

v8ko · 11-07-2009, 12:57 PM

Dude thats a sick ride, Congrats!!!!!!

I have a right hand drive Fairlady project sitting in my garage. Thinking about dropping a V-8 into it. The current motor is really buggy it gets spark and fuel but rarely at the same time lol. And we all know everything goes better with V-8!

Cookie-boy · 11-07-2009, 01:28 PM

My main concern is the wiring. I've seen what rats and mice can do to a car and I don't know whether I fancy putting a whole new loom in.

I think I'll do a full appraisal tomorrow, I'll get my Fred-in-a-shed to come and take a look.

Sinmastah · 11-07-2009, 01:31 PM

Cookie, pics are a must for the restoration process!

Boleskinehouse · 11-07-2009, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sinmastah

Cookie, pics are a must for the restoration process!

Yes!

davebag89 · 11-07-2009, 02:02 PM

Bloody hell cookie, you really are a lucky sod

I'd quite like to see the restoration myself

KSG_Standard · 11-07-2009, 02:14 PM

Nice find Cookie! That looks like a fun project and well worth the effort.

alligatorbling · 11-07-2009, 02:17 PM

awesome!!!! my dad has a 74 =)

EooN_PL · 11-07-2009, 02:18 PM

Oh dear, that's a sex-mobile!

Atomic · 11-07-2009, 02:18 PM

wow! look at that.

i love those old 5 hole mags.

crazymike · 11-07-2009, 03:04 PM

Nice one.

Anybody seen this story??

or this one??

lazz · 11-07-2009, 03:07 PM

your tone mouse can live in the glove box..........

MrWrong · 11-07-2009, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cookie-boy

Yeah! Always breaking down. I believe if you throw the Lucas fuel pump away and install a Bosch one then your chances of a nervous breakdown are halved!!!!

The old joke goes:

You know why the British drink room temperature beer?

Because their refrigerators are made by Lucas.

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Cookie-boy Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Under the care, custody and control of Matron. Posts: 6,708 Thanks: 146 Thanked 687 Times in 172 Posts	Barn finds!! Another gem!!! I don't know about you but if I pass a rickety old shop with the sign half hanging off the wall and a couple of windows boarded up then I have to go in and have a poke around. Same with Garage sales, I can't park up and get in there quick enough, and I have found one or two things worth having over the years. But the thing I get most excited about are barns. If I happen to find myself alone and unsupervised in a farmyard, well................. No!!!!!!! Not that!!!!! Barns!!!! Get in there and have a "shuftie" about. I've found all sorts over the years, cars, antiques.........I once found a pair of matching cushion moulded oak dressers that were 17th century and being used as nesting boxes for chickens. OK that was thirty years ago but now they'd be worth as much as a Burst and not the five grand I got for them. Which brings me to yesterday. I was out with some mates having a little walk around shoot and we called in at the farm for a rest and a bit of lunch. I wandered around like I do, and there inside a grain dryer I found this......... The only down side is that the rats have made it their home............. .............1975 Triumph TR6. I've made an offer and I think I own it. __________________ "No Tone Mouse? No Tone, Baby!"

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