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Correct Color and Car Value

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...and I'm getting fond of grey...

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I started off a color string a few months ago when I first got my pile of TR3 parts and still haven't decided...but i've been getting fond of grey lately too and since found two gentlement off of the TRRegistry who sent photos of their silverstone grey cars (one attached) - they do look great and are pretty unique color wise - so i'm now between silverstone grey (black interior) and sunset red (a triumph color from a different year and much darker than signal red) - incidentally, mine was powder blue subsequently painted...you guessed it...signal red.
By the way, I now have an engine that runs, clutch and brakes ...body on restoration is next is next - don't think there is much chance of a fall colors run this year!
Cheers,
Kerry /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/canpatriot.GIF
 

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Jsneddon, HAHAHAHA That's awsome! I never saw that before (wipes tears from eyes) I'm gonna have to mark that page in my catalog.
My take on the color is this. It's your car. Make it what you want.
every time I see a Grey TR3, It looks like it's in primer to me. I worked on one that was originally grey with a two tone red/black int. Ewwww I wasen't overly fond of it.
The TR2 I'm getting looks like it was originally white, then painted, you guessed it, Signal Red.
I,m pretty confident that I'm going to paint it British Racing Green with either a black or dark brown int. But we had one at the shop a while back that was a maroon with a medium brown int. I really liked it. I know it wasent an original color, but it really looked good.
I also remember seeing one at Watkins that was a copper color with TR6 wheels. Not a color I'd paint mine, but a color that worked surprisingly well.
 
I think a high grade restoration should include as much originality as possible. You are a lucky man to have a beautiful and desirable original color. My TR6 started life with Maple Brown; it is now beautiful blue.
 
I think you have basically two type of buyers for this type of car. The first wants everything as original as possible and will pay top dollar for that. The second type sees the car as how he wants it to be... such as a "resto-mod" and will likely pay extra for that as well.

Put simply, if the paint is well done then SOMEONE will think it's worth it.
 
Introduction and opinion

Hello everybody, I am the proud owner of a new (to me) 1959 TR3A that I "accidently" bought on E-bay. My goal was to end up with a nice driver so I really wasn't concerned with matching (or near matching) numbers or originality .... however ... the car I ended up with is completly factory original, so I'm compelled to keep it as original as practical. The car is grey, with blue leather interior. I would have never EVER picked grey to paint my car ... but everybody who sees it sitting in the garage asks "what color I'm going to paint it .... because who ever heard of a grey sports car." ...... That sealed my fate ..... it has to ... MUST ... be painted it's original color ... just because it's NOT red, BRG, black, or white. I will make some changes ... interior will go from leather to vinyl, just because I don't want to worry about water leaking on my leather interior, and I'll go from blue/white to black/white interior just because I like that combination better. But I'm only changing things that can be easily returned to "stock" in case The car is ever pryed from my cold dead fingers by a "purist" in the distant future.
 
Re: Introduction and opinion

Banjo, the copper TR3a you saw at Watkins Glen was almost certainly the car of Malcolm and Brenda Taylor of the Toronto Triumph Club.
On trips they usually take Buster, a small terrier, and tow a folding camper. In 2000 they took part in a Millenium celebration by driving across Canada, of course driving to the starting point first, then back home afterwards which means they crossed the country twice. Since it wasn't a direct route, and they diverted to visit friends in the US, they totalled over 17,000 miles pulling the trailer on that one trip!
Perhaps you noticed the car looked like a "driver", it is!
Simon.
 
Re: Correct Color and Car Value - Codes

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every time I see a Grey TR3, It looks like it's in primer to me.

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Nuts, I was really warming up to grey - but since this comment I keep thinking the same thing...I have about two weeks to decide too, the car goes in for body work next week - yippie!

Here is a question, I know what the TS number is, what do the other two on the firewall mean?

Mine are "EB 61182" and "1066342"

I think my car was originally powder blue (code 36) but that is not in there...

Cheers,
Kerry /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/canpatriot.GIF
 
Re: Correct Color and Car Value - Codes

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Here is a question, I know what the TS number is, what do the other two on the firewall mean?

Mine are "EB 61182" and "1066342"

[/ QUOTE ]I believe the "EB.." number is a (bare) body number, while the other is a number assigned to a fully trimmed body.

Seems to me that the "EB..." plate was attached before the body received its color coat and, therefore, was usually painted body color. The other plate, usually below the "EB..." plate, was left in natural brass finish.
 
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