TR2/3/3A 1960 TR3A Small Mouth [Huh?] on eBay

[PeterK]

It's a really creative way to add a couple of fuses, side by side with the original fuse block. Much more so than if you added modern blade fuses mounted in sight on the firewall. I have a six circuit aux panel mounted beside the glovebox, out of sight. Also many other hidden improvements for every day driving.

Good call on the fan stat Randall.

 

[60TR3A]

This has certainly been an entertaining read.

One question about the Minotars being accepted as period correct. Just because the VTR expert wants them for his car doesn't mean they are period correct for judging. He probably wants them for his car because they are a more stable wheel for driving than the original 48 spokers. I doubt the car they would be going on would ne in any sort of concourse judging especially if he were a judge.

Also, just because they are made in the same factory doesn't mean that they qualify for period correct. Otherwise a TR4A engine in a TR2 should be allowed. While the Minotar is a wheel of the correct diameter but not width, and it may match the widths available of a period correct wheel, the look is a little updated and not quite the same as true period correct wheel. In the same manner, the TR4A engine is an updated 4 cylinder, based on the same block even as the TR2, and made in the same factory, possibly by the same people, but would still not be period correct for a TR2 (or TR3, TR3A or possibly even a TR4 depending upon VIN). At a glance, they would look the same espeically to the uninitiated but are not the same.

There are two basic standards used for judging side screen TR's in the US on a nationwide basis. One is TRA, the other is VTR. My guess, and that is all it is, would be that your TR3A, as it sits, would be classed as modified and you would be put in the same class as that small mouth "Resto-Mod" (which there seems to be as many definitions for as there are for "restored") on ebay (the original subject of the thread).

This of course is all my opinion and as you so ably put it, they are like aresholes.

Welcome to the forum.

Hi, Shawn, and thanks for the welcome!

I doubt I'll ever enter my car into any serious shows, leastwise a concours d'elegance. I love wire wheels and the classic look they give early British sports cars but the car I bought was already shod with the Minator Minilite replicas and since they are less of a maintenance issue and do provide an extra inch of rubber to the asphalt, I'm leaving well enough alone. To make my car into a show car would cost way more money than the resulting car would be worth so I'm just going to use it as an occasional driver and enter it into whatever car shows there are around for fun, not judging for national points or anything along those lines.

To show you and other readers just how unimportant "correctness" is to me, I'm personalizing my car by adding a wood steering wheel, Monza exhaust, Lucas fog lamps, badges, Lucas headlamps, etc. I'm just fulfilling the dreams I had as a teenager when I owned my first car, a '60 TR3A and couldn't afford such niceties. If these modifications would deduct points in a concours, that's not a problem for me since I don't intend to enter any. I'm doing it just for me. All the mods I am doing were being done back in the sixties and I'm ordering everything from Moss Motors and the like so as to get the "right stuff". I don't believe my doing such mods anywhere approaches the idea of changing the front apron to a small mouth, which was the sole objection I had to what the eBay seller did to his car. I seem to have invited a [censored] storm from some members of this forum who objected to my opinion & how I stated it, so in self-defense I fought back against some of the sarcasm thrown at me by certain individuals who were just baiting me.

I just think it's a crying shame to spend all the time and money into restoring a TR3A by trying to make it look like a TR2 or early TR3, but it's his money and apparently there are plenty of takers who are interested in owning such a car. Not me. If I wanted a small mouth TR, I'd find me one that came from the factory that way, but I was always a fan of the TR3A because that was my first car and had no love for the small mouth because it was "outdated" back in 1964 when I bought mine. Old preferences are hard to lose, I guess.

On a more positive note, my 3-car garage smells like my original car and I love it! Hard to believe that I can remember a smell that I last experienced in 1965 but it's a joy to have it in my garage now!

 

[swift6]

On a more positive note, my 3-car garage smells like my original car and I love it! Hard to believe that I can remember a smell that I last experienced in 1965 but it's a joy to have it in my garage now!

Eau de Triumph, the sweet smell of Triumph exhaust that lingers, remember the smell well from my TR6 days, my TR8 is a different flavor all together.

 

[DNK]

AHHHHHHH!!!!!! :hammer: :hammer: