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Finally got to go out driving today

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History: I had two stainless resonators installed to quiet things down back there, but they were made incorrectly (read completely blocked up), as a consequence, I lost roughly 3/4 power. Anyway, the vendor was good to me and replaced everything, but by the time I got all the parts in, scheduled time with the exhaust guy and sorted out my work stuff, nearly two months have passed.

I've also had a nagging miss that was fixed with a finding a loose intake manifold bolt and finally getting the A/F mixture on the carbs close to right. With all the mods, the engine is really pulling strong now.

Now with new, still a little loud exhaust (but in a good way), I got to blast down the North Carolina countryside today at (occasionally) breakneck speeds for a couple hours. The weather was sunny and 50's but with the tonneau cover and the heat on made a pretty comfortable ride.

With the miss and the exhaust fiasco (a project I have waaaayy too much money tied up into), I was getting a little depressed.

These little drives are a good reminder of why we all go through the sometimes miserable trials of ownership. I love my little red TR6.
 

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I didn't get back out today because there was no sun and it was 10-15 degrees colder than yesterday.

I completely understand your feelings of why we do what we do with these cars. But any collector car is a labor of love and to drive them is the ultimate pleasure. I say this as the boxes of parts are starting to line up for winter and spring installation, when the weather cooperates.
 

R6MGS

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Boxs of parts! It's rooms of parts here, and never enough time to get through them all. The biggest disadvantage of multiple LBC's is that you never have time to drive them because at least one is always broken or in need of something.....I did get to drive the 6 yesterday, but that because all the other cars are in storage, but one can't fully enjoy the 6 anyway when you've gotta have the hartop and heat on just to stay comfortable.....I was out in the driveway polishing out the paint in the snow today...neighbours looking on guessing at how many beverages I had before hand - the things we do for our cars!
 

PeterK

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It's funny how that drive makes you forget everything unimportant. woohoo!
 
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Peter, are you telling me these TRs will
actually drive? You able able to go places in them?

Cooool!!

And here I thought I have been building a museum car
to be towed from place to place for kiddies to view.

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