Hi Alistair
Being an auction junkie myself, I can relate to your thoughts as you walked away from the
Trillium. Been there, done that, kicked myself in the same part of my anatomy afterwards.
Who knows...the frame could have been cracked in three places, the floor might have been rotted thru' and the mold may have been just getting into high gear...
Then again, it maybe did go for $100 "as is , where is" !!!
Look at it this way, too...if you had bought it, you might still be there, trying to un-stick the flat
tires from the mud, at the same time wondering why one side of the unit is 4" lower than the other, why the
tires won't take air, and hoping the wheel bearings will last out the drive home.
.......Just trying to make you feel better !!
From one 73 Trill owner to another...
Joe/Peterborough
, but I used the old left brain and passed it up. "It" was a'71or'72 Trill that had serial #437. It had a decent shell(barn fresh I think )but the inside was decrepit. The tail-light lenses were small -6" trapezoidal- not like the long Bargmans on my 73 and all others I'd seen. The frame did not extend back to form a rear bumper ...no idea how the spare was mounted to the rear body! The "project" really intrigued me but the deal-breaker was the front window and gravel guard were gone and replaced by a large panel of polycarbonate. My wife kept asking questions like"Where would I store it?...get the new window?...find the TIME to re-do it? " and all sorts of annoyingly logical things. But ...I walked away from the auction without this piece of Egg History. 
Alistair
Alistair
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