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I read on another post that TR3A's are hand built.If so,can I say to my friends you drive one of those "assembly line" cars.Much the same way while Im drinking a homebrew I say,you drink that "mass produced stuff!"
 
This is a bit of a grey area. The cars were built on assembly lines out of mass-produced parts; it's not as if each body panel was hand-formed over a wooden buck, etc. However, the basic body tubs were somewhat hand-assembled and welded together, and the tools for stamping those parts as well as fenders and such were nowhere near as sophisticated as those used today on the average Corolla, etc. So sometimes stampings weren't as clean as they should have been, and the tooling wore more quickly (hence, for example, the change at TS60001 dictated in large part by the fact that the old tooling -- not originally intended to have produced the volume of cars that it did -- had worn out.

And, this was long before the robots, computer-controlled machinery, etc. found on modern assembly lines and the extreme precision that came with those innovations!

Summary: not hand-built the way some Rolls-Royces and Morgans were built, but not quite as cars are built today, either. So everyone's right...to a point. :laugh:
 
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