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My friends Bret and Adam accompanied me to go get the '59 TR3 today. I also transferred the title, and attempted to change the title from '60 (date of sale) to '59 (date of manufacture) with no dice.
Since Bret's extra tow truck was out of commission, we used a good old fashioned wheel dolly. It actually worked well to free up those dragging wheels! (Smell those brake pads!)
When we got up to my street, Adam jumped into the TR3 and on the second push of the clutch, he was able to engage it (clutch works!!!) He let the clutch out and the frozen engine (with anti-seize sitting in the spark-plug holes for two days) freed-up!!!
So we pushed it down my hill into my garage -- brakes work.
The car was very obviously originally Powder Blue with Blue interior/white piping. I actually wish it was still this combo, since I happen to like it better than BRG/Black! The interior has been painted black. The carpets are quite good. The center panel needs to be painted in correct wrinkle black.
There are a lot of little MacGyver home built things on this car. I took off the home-built wind wings, as well as the ugly (and broken) coolant overflow.
Mostly the car is just plain filthy. There's so much junk on the underside of the bonnet that I'm simply going to take it off and wash it outside so it doesn't all fall into the engine, which I'm making progress on cleaning.
There are some scrapes, scratches, and the obligatory repaired with fiberglass battery tray, but no other rust that I've seen so far. The hubcap chrome is toasted, but I think these are repros, since they are very thinly chromed.
Otherwise, there are a bunch of parts I'll need to assemble, and a tushy-load of cleaning to do.
After a coolant flush, gas tank flush, oil change, spark plug change, rear-end oil change and a new battery I'll try to fire her up.
Since Bret's extra tow truck was out of commission, we used a good old fashioned wheel dolly. It actually worked well to free up those dragging wheels! (Smell those brake pads!)
When we got up to my street, Adam jumped into the TR3 and on the second push of the clutch, he was able to engage it (clutch works!!!) He let the clutch out and the frozen engine (with anti-seize sitting in the spark-plug holes for two days) freed-up!!!
So we pushed it down my hill into my garage -- brakes work.
The car was very obviously originally Powder Blue with Blue interior/white piping. I actually wish it was still this combo, since I happen to like it better than BRG/Black! The interior has been painted black. The carpets are quite good. The center panel needs to be painted in correct wrinkle black.
There are a lot of little MacGyver home built things on this car. I took off the home-built wind wings, as well as the ugly (and broken) coolant overflow.
Mostly the car is just plain filthy. There's so much junk on the underside of the bonnet that I'm simply going to take it off and wash it outside so it doesn't all fall into the engine, which I'm making progress on cleaning.
There are some scrapes, scratches, and the obligatory repaired with fiberglass battery tray, but no other rust that I've seen so far. The hubcap chrome is toasted, but I think these are repros, since they are very thinly chromed.
Otherwise, there are a bunch of parts I'll need to assemble, and a tushy-load of cleaning to do.
After a coolant flush, gas tank flush, oil change, spark plug change, rear-end oil change and a new battery I'll try to fire her up.
