TR2/3/3A Christmas Gift.

[DavidApp]

My daughter found a copy of Triumph World in a used book store and gave it to me for Christmas. It is issue 48 from Feb/March 2003 so it is old but not that old.

There is a story about "A Friday Car" by Tony Beadle. It is the restoration of a 1955 TR2 built on Friday 28 January 1955 between 3 and 4PM .

Neat story but what cought my eye was the emblem just below the windshield stanchion. Was this on the early TR2 and later dropped or has someone added it? It looks very nice.

David

 

[CJD]

As far as I know it has to be added. Pretty car, though.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Pretty sure that was not a factory item.

But the TR3 ('57) that I restored was that exact color combination - Pearl White and red interior.

 

[ckeithjordan]

I've noticed quite a few TR3s that are in Europe have the Union Jack medallions. They're not a factory accessory, but an aftermarket one. They look pretty cool, but I'm not sure I want to drill four new holes in my bodywork to have a pair! And yes, that Pearl White and red interior is a winning combination!

The article's title is interesting, too. My car was built on Friday, July 19, 1957 after 4:30pm. I always wondered why that was noted on the Factory Trace (but not the BMHIT certificate) and whether they rushed to finish the car to get home for dinner. Friday in those days at the S-T factory was not the end of the work week, Saturday was.

 

[DavidApp]

Checking through Bill Piggott's book none of the TR2s have the flag emblem but I did come across a magazine from 1985 with an article about the TRs and it has a photo of a 1954 TR2 with the flag.
It is the Sports Cars Mechanics magazine and the article is called Sporting Triumphs by Graham Robertson.

In it there is mention of how loud the exhaust was on the early TR2s. (A healthy Bark is how he put it) My parents could hear me coming home at night from several miles away. Or at least that is what they said. I had the single silencer that was fitted on the TR2.

Dacid

 

[pdplot]

I seem to remember Road & Track test commenting on the exhaust bark at 2500 rpm. The TR2 was the first sports car to hit an honest 100 mph and cost less than $2500.00. It also got better than 30 mpg. I wanted one and in 1956, I bought a TR3 from Vaughn Motors located on upper Broadway in Manhattan. There was a 6-month wait at the time but Bill Vaughn was known to cut "deals" and my car was destined for one Pete Peterson in Massachusetts but he never got it. The gas tank was leaking; I took the car back to Vaughn under warranty and it was fixed and I never had another problem with the car as long as I owned it - other than the time my friend rolled it racing at Lime Rock. That's a story for another day.

 

[DavidApp]

Got Hot Sauce from my other daughter for Christmas. Her husband did the label design for the local hot sauce company. The Martians were the company's idea.

The first one I have sampled is good.

David