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TR2/3/3A Last ride of the year

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Scot1966

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I took one last ride in my dads TR3 before putting it in the basement for the winter today. ( He bought it in 1964 - It will always be my dads to me ) When I passed the bank, I noticed the temperature was 34. Definitely the coldest weather I have driven the TR in. The side curtains are in bad shape so they were left off, but I put on the original top yellow windows and all, for the the first time since my brother drove it to college through the winter of 1974. I ran the gas tank low and drove about 20 miles to a gas station that sells 110 octane CAM2 and put in a couple gallons. My friend uses it at the end of every season in place of stabilizer and tells me it works well for him. I have used Startron for a while now, but last year I took the carbs apart and they had green residue on the throttle plates and in the bores of the carbs, so I am willing to give CAM2 a try. It was a chilly ride, but it was still great. 110 octane definitely makes a difference in throttle response !
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Scot1966 said:
I took one last ride in my dads TR3 before putting it in the basement for the winter today. ( He bought it in 1964 - It will always be my dads to me ) When I passed the bank, I noticed the temperature was 34. Definitely the coldest weather I have driven the TR in. The side curtains are in bad shape so they were left off, but I put on the original top yellow windows and all, for the the first time since my brother drove it to college through the winter of 1974. I ran the gas tank low and drove about 20 miles to a gas station that sells 110 octane CAM2 and put in a couple gallons. My friend uses it at the end of every season in place of stabilizer and tells me it works well for him. I have used Startron for a while now, but last year I took the carbs apart and they had green residue on the throttle plates and in the bores of the carbs, so I am willing to give CAM2 a try. It was a chilly ride, but it was still great. 110 octane definitely makes a difference in throttle response !
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Good for you, Scott. !964 was the same year I bought mine and although I still have it, it didn't fair as well as yours. I bet it will start in the spring without fuss. Tom
 
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I drove my 6 today. I'm hopeful I'll get one more good day to drive it before the white stuff comes.
 
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110 octane!

i can't even find 90 octane pure gas anymore.
( though, I can drive most of the winter with the top down.....I won't rub that in)
 
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With the help of a friend and my son, I got my top up today - them pushing (hard) and me latching.
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Here's a funny little add on to my journey. Like yours, this top was tight - especially since it hasn't been on since 1974. About halfway into my ride, the two straps that hold the top frame from going too far forward snapped and the frame came down on my head. I had a bungee cord in the trunk, so I attached it to the rearmost tube and down to the interior capping corner. Not pretty, but it got me home.
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Why are LBC tops - especially TR's -so poorly designed? My son's Alfa top goes up or down with one hand while sitting in the driver's seat. Ditto for the Fiat Spider he once owned. Leave these tops down for two days and it takes a gorilla to put them back up. Plus you have to fold them j-u-s-t right or you get a crease or (as mine) a nice hole. There's even a video on how to put down the top of a TR6 - a video yet. Critics have complained long and hard about the tops of the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. To a TR owner, what's the big deal?
 
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