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TR4/4A What is the car worth [detroit locker]

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Got_All_4

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Last fall I but out a message about this guy that has a 65 TR4 that he raced in the 70s. Race prepared with moholy liners, triumph racing cam, alloy American Racing wheels, overdrive tranny and the big prize is the Detroit Locker rear end. He cleaned the area around the car and I was able to get a good look at it. Wow! Not a good panel left on that car. The only thing left is the drive train and all of that is on the ground. Tires are sunk in the ground and the frame is rotted away.

I've asked for a price and he just can't get it out. Keeps saying I just don't know. I know too the next person that speaks looses but everything is so ruff and I just don't know the internal condition ether.

What do you guys think?
 

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Geo Hahn

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Just my opinion - if you offered to haul it away for free you'd being doing him a favor.

What is was once has little to do with what it is now.
 
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Looks like there's not much there worth struggling with to get it out of the ground. Wheels, body and running gear are obviously gone. Depending on whether water got in through the carbs the engine might just be a rusted solid block for a boat anchor. The Trans and rear end "might" be salvageable, since they're sealed hopefully ... with a lot of work. Maybe $100 - $200 if they look like they are intact and stayed sealed up? You could always sell the OD for parts to recoup the costs. Anything else is pretty much scrap. But he may still see it the way it used to be.
 
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Brinkerhoff said:
I love TR4s but I don't see any value other than the OD.
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I'd add the wheels and locker to that, and you might even find some interesting goodies inside the engine, but even so, it's hardly worth the effort of moving it, then stripping and scrapping the rest.
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The key word is "effort" ! I've got plenty of heavy used parts now that aren't worth a penny until someone needs them, let this one go to scrap and drive the value of mine up!
 
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About what I thought too. I offered him $200 for the tranny. The shifter is locked up but the internals are unknown. The A type that was in my TR6 was stored from 1982 to 2006 in a body shop. then when I got it, it was outside for a year then inside from 2008 to current and the overdrive had some rust issues inside. So I can't imagine what I would find in this one.
 
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