Dirty Cars...

[swift6]

I thought I would start this thread here to get everyone in on the game. Lets keep it to LBC's though please.

Some of you know that I drive my TR8 daily (I don't mean just daily capable). I know others are out there that drive theirs daily as well. Since we are entering our fourth week of storms here in Colorado. (Started snowing again tonight, supposed to snow lightly the next few days, and were heading for a few days of single digit temps for projected highs) So its been a while since I have been able to wash my car. If you don't count wiping off the snow as washing. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif

Doesn't look too bad though for all the muck that I have been driving through. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Lets see 'em everyone. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif Show us your dirt!

 

[vping]

Sorry to say - no dirt. My car looks the same as pictured. I do not drive it every day but the weather here has been really weird. 70º here this past Saturday, 36º and dropping today. No snow yet and it's mid Jan. so there is no mud, slush, salt or nuttin on the road. I went through a small puddle the other day and dirtied my wheel well if that counts.

 

[R6MGS]

Great thread....Don't think I have any dirty pics thou. My wifes MGA is usually dirtier than my driver(iunno where she goes to get it like that?)

 

[AngliaGT]

I drive the Cortina MKIII almost every day.
Wash it once in awhile.
We're supposed to get down to 20 degrees tonight-
-all time low for the 12th of January.
Maybe I'll even fix the heater soon.

- Doug

 

[Steve_S]

I found three. One of the '65 B in the garage many years ago, one of the '67 GT driving off road, and one of the '49 TC's rear end after an off road excursion.

 

[Baz]

From the NWS: An Ice Storm Warning remains in effect until 0600 Monday morning. And poor Minerva is out in it.
It's not only dirty, but will need an inch of ice chipping of it in the morning; maybe the dirt will stick to the ice?

 

[DrEntropy]

Get out there NOW with the chamois and wipe her down!!!

I'll be right there with ya! ...right...

As soon as they bring on the aerobatic swine.

 

[Baz]

Just threw a tarp over her, I can handle an icy tarp. Freezing rain came earlier than expected, caught her exposed.
It's Brass Monkeys out there.

 

[DrEntropy]

No doubt.

Time to crack open the single malt container.

 

[R6MGS]

Well..I did find one dirty pic...the TR6 after sitting outside all last summer in the PO's driveway.

I know I have a pic of my old yellow 78 MGB after driving 4 hours through a blizzard in northern Ontario...but it's buried under a pile of junk somewhere. I even took a pic of the center cap with a spiral of ice shooting off of it, it's actually pretty amazing.

 

[drooartz]

Here's the Tunebug after the trip home with it last March. Poor thing was dirty and frozen from the trip. Yes, that's ice coating most of the front and the windshield.

 

[Sherlock]

Shawn... Just noticed that your TR8 is a coupe... I assume then that your's is one of the rare "prototype" TR8 coupes prior to the common TR8 roadsters? I've only ever seen one TR8 coupe before, and got the crappiest photo I could possibly take... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

 

[swift6]

Shawn... Just noticed that your TR8 is a coupe... I assume then that your's is one of the rare "prototype" TR8 coupes prior to the common TR8 roadsters? I've only ever seen one TR8 coupe before, and got the crappiest photo I could possibly take... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

There were some production coupes made. Mine is actually the 15th production TR8. Built in December of 1978. If you count pre-production and production coupes together I think its still less than 400 in number. Making it in a very real sense one of the rarest of all production TR's. Even so, it doesn't help the value any.

The pre-production coupes are known as 'ACN' cars and production coupes are 'TCN' cars. In reference to the beginnings of their chassis designation (these are still before Triumph switched too the international VIN system). Mine is TCN150015. From what I can tell there were two runs of production coupes, TCN150XXX and TCN160XXX.

In Mike Cook's book 'Triumph in America', he talks about being 'issued' a pre-production coupe for testing and evaluation (they were given to executives to gather some 'real world' feedback), how much he enjoyed it and how many of them were automatics.

 

[Twosheds]

As soon as they bring on the aerobatic swine.

O.K., Doc, you asked for it!

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