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Moseso

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I just got back from the body shop where my TR3 has been since last October. Jamie has worked on it in fits and starts but, as spring approaches, he's getting serious about finishing the job. All the extraneous dents, dings and holes in the sheet metal have been welded/massaged/smoothed, and primer applied. The thing looks great!

I approved the paint color, so he WILL be ready for me to do final assembly, right about the time the salt is washed off the road. It's hard to wait...

I don't have any pictures -- shame on me -- so I thought I'd post this link. It's a new feature on the TR Register of Australia page. My car will become a member, when I get some pics of it. "The Powder Blue Club"
 
Moseso said:
I don't have any pictures -- shame on me -- so I thought I'd post this link. It's a new feature on the TR Register of Australia page. My car will become a member, when I get some pics of it. "The Powder Blue Club"
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Very nice, Moses. I'm in. I just sent Rick a photograph.

Thanks for the link!
 
My favorite color on 3. Man, shoot, jeez, the one I saw on a lot in 68. No $ much desire. Enjoy.
 
My very first 3A was a 59 flintstones version with rusty floors and a starter that worked SOMETIMES..........so it was push, jump in and pop the clutch. BUT it was powder blue. BEAUTIFULL!!! My 2nd TR was a 1960 model in much better condition and also in that nice blue color. I revv'ed it up with white racing stripes from JC Whitney. It will always be my favorite car. Unfortunately a tree ran out in front of it, but I kept the keys and my current 59 has been keyed to fit the earlier love. Everyone has a signal red TR, powder blue is the really classy color IMO........ so why did I paint mine black???
Gordon
 
Ours will be powder blue as well which is its current color although I found out from the BMIHT certificate that it was originally silverstone grey.

This was the car that made me want a Triumph when I was 16 and led to me getting my first TR4A when I was 18. I got the chance to buy it 15 years later and since it was powder blue when I first saw it that's the color that looks "right" on it for me.

Scott
 
Oh, I meant to ask what paint and paint code are you using for future information? :smile:

Scott
 
Gordon_Dedrick said:
My very first 3A was a 59 flintstones version with rusty floors and a starter that worked SOMETIMES..........so it was push, jump in and pop the clutch. BUT it was powder blue. BEAUTIFULL!!! My 2nd TR was a 1960 model in much better condition and also in that nice blue color. I revv'ed it up with white racing stripes from JC Whitney. It will always be my favorite car. Unfortunately a tree ran out in front of it, but I kept the keys and my current 59 has been keyed to fit the earlier love...
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Gordon --
You and I are in some kind of special club here...
Not many people get to wreck two TR3s and restore/drive a third.
My first (a small-mouth '57) was some kind of darker blue (wrecked). My second was Powder Blue (wrecked -- coulda died in that one, but didn't). My last (I ain't doin' this again) came to me blue, and is being being painted Powder Blue.

Scott --
I think the paint Jamie has is VERY close. I'll see that you get a code. It's not lacquer. It's some kind of modern, catalyzed, super-paint. He and I have talked endlessly about the problems of getting pre-1960 colors properly translated to 21st century paint.
 
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