Project Tank: 1963 Triumph TR4 Bugatti Type 32
The expression “project car” conjures up images of hard work and some bucks to provide material and parts, but most of my experience with project cars has been limited to getting an old car back on the road. Maybe some paint/body repair. Perhaps an engine rebuild. But this next car. I’m not sure if it is a project car…or just a project. it reminds me of a Mad Magazine spoof of a model sailing ship kit that came with a piece of a 2X4 and instructions to “remove everything that doesn’t look like the photo on the box.” Find this 1963 Triumph TR4 Bugatti Type 32 offered for $2500 in Dallas, TX.
From the seller:
1963
condition: good
cylinders: 4 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 10001
odometer broken
size: mid-size
title status: missing
transmission: manual
type: convertible
1963 triumph TR4 frame with a hand built Bugatti style type 32 body this has been a project that I’ve been working on for about 7 years . Will need to move roller only. What you see is what you get. Comes with brass radiator . No loball offers if you insult me I will walk away. I have put untold hours in this car will consider reasonable offer don’t go to low . No title
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“condition: good”
Well the condition may be good but the car itself seems to have some issues. At least the usual body rust seems to be absent.
Are the C-clamps included at that price?
And just a note that such a beast already exists, although that one has a Bugatti engine, running gear and frame. It is considered a valid replica. Ran at the Monterey Historic back when benevolent dictator Earle still had control.
I saw it then. Those Bugatti drivers are a fun bunch. Lots of regular folks who have had them since when they were cheap old cars and they drive the snot out of them.
“I KNOW WHAT I’VE GOT!”
…Good thing, too. cuz no one else knows.
Untold hours in this car? only way i could honestly make that claim for anything that looks like this pile was as a 10 year old, freshly moved onto an old derelict farmstead, with a doodle bug project in the carriage barn.
friend and i spent …
” Untold Hours” …
pretending it was an operational car in imaginary races.
” No loball offers if you insult me I will walk away. I have put untold hours in this car will consider reasonable offer don’t go to low . No title”
Between this guy’s tude and $2500, I can’t even. A new low for Daily Turismo. What a loser, what a piece of crap.
I looked this up yesterday to see what the finished product should look like and that sent me down the rabbit hole of cycle karts. I bet a finished version would be a lot of fun to run around in.
Chris Miller: “I bet a finished version would be a lot of fun to run around in…”
…or drive off a cliff.
You can be in it when that happens, or not. It all depends on how many “untold hours” you have into it at that point.
-Stan (who had, thankfully, outgrown those untold hours of torture and now tends to buy finished, working vehicles)
And now, a musical interlude…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDfrW5cWqMU