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Thank You Geo Hahn mine looks just like yours did. Nice ride and nice documentation!

So my thought is to leave the original plate intact and in place, Stamp a new plate and install it adjacent to the original.


Now back to the questions of which of the two plates and block stamp do I provide and to whom do I provide the numbers to?
 
To answer your prior question then... all you need to provide the Hertiage Trust is the commission number -- i.e. the number usually used as a VIN and on that now bare plate under the master cylinders.

The body number was on that flat shelf on the opposite side of the engine compartment. It and the engine number that the car left Coventry with should appear on the certificate you'll receive.

To prepare the certificate they examine film of the original records -- sometimes probably looking at them crossed-eyed (like that famous photo of the Florida vote counter studying hanging chads) as the image they have to work with may not be ideal.

On mine they got the engine number wrong (reading an '8' as a '3') but promptly reissued a correct certificate when I told them about the error.
 
I ran across this thread yesterday when I was looking for something else, and decided it was time to get it ordered. I went to their site and got it all taken care of. It now costs 35 pounds but so be it. Can't wait to get it.

Cheers, Tinkerman
 
I wouldn't attach the original plate next to the newly stamped one. You're just asking for trouble. If you are stopped for any reason, the two plates side by side will attract attention. With only one plate there no-one would think twice about it. But keep the original plate for the next owner, should you ever sell your car.
 
Well, rec'd the certificate for my car yesterday.
Dispatch date June 14.1966
Shipped from Samuel Williams Warf, Dagenham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagenham
on board the Berganger
Shiuipped to Vancouver Canada
Only discrepancy seems to be the top and (now non existant ) tonneau which are list as being white however my car has black trim.

Could this have been changed out by the dealer in Canada or is this an error?
I also imagine that this dating also explains no "flash to pass" headlight switch and no sun visors.
Any thoughts?
 
Tom - out of curiosity, how long did it take to get that certificate?

My cert arrived in about 10 days after the online order. Showed dispatch date of April 23 1959, shipped on Star of Canada to Portland. No discrepancies that I can find.

Certainly possible (?) that the top and tonneau cover were different colors from your interior trim. I've seen a tan tonneau cover on several otherwise black TRs.

When did "flash to pass" headlights start appearing on Canadian cars?

Tom
 
The cert arrived about 15 days after order. PITA that you aren't cc'd on your original request that you submitted. You only get their acknowledgment of receipt of your request.

Have you researched the ship with any success?

I had flash to pass on a 72 Volvo but see references to this on 4A-IRS models in Bill Piggots newest book (Just arrived as well , Fantastic)
 
I recently received a certificate for a TR3B, it was full of typo's and misspelled words. I don't mean where a word is different in English than in English (tire vs. tyre). Words like synchromesh and syncromech. So I e-mailed them and they were quite good about getting another one out, got it in 7 days. It also had misspelled words. So I e-mailed them and they were quite good about getting another one out, got it in 7 days. PERFECT What the heck, for $80, it should be.
 

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I guess that they don't have spell checkers in GB?
 
Hoodstick cover is the strip of fabric/vinyl/whatever that covers up the hood sticks (the rails which support the soft top), when you fold the sticks down behind the seats. It's in the lower right corner of this:
 
After you remove the top, the "hood sticks", or top frame, that gets folded down in the back has a cover. It snaps along the back where the top snapped on and has a few more snaps and pockets inside which totally enclose the hood sticks sort of wrapping around them. It's a little tricky to install if you've never done it before. Alot of people get it wrong.

You can see it on this watercolor that I painted...well, you can't see it that good, but I took this opportunity to post one of my watercolors! :yesnod:
 

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Nice watercolor! The background is very olde England as well. You do requests?

Randy
 
Sunbeam
 
A chap in Essex, England, did a watercolour painting of my 1958 TR3A from a photo. His name is Paul Rumsey.
 

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TR4nut said:
Nice watercolor! The background is very olde England as well. You do requests?

Randy
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I've done several for friends and relatives but never took any money for them. The most difficult one (actually two pictures) was of a '58 Impala done from a couple of 35mm slides. I had to project them on a wall while I worked on the paintings. It's a hobby like restoring the TR. I have sold some of my watercolors, but none of them have been of autos...mostly florals, as they are an easy sell.
 
For the artistically clueless... most photo handling software has a feature for a natural painting effect. This enables you to take an ordinary photo and apply some degree of effect, for example --

Using the 'Watercolor' effect:

TR3Watercolor.JPG



Or the 'Pen & Ink' effect:

TR3Pen&Ink.JPG



If Monet had this those haystacks would have been a cinch!

Okay, way off topic but thought someone might enjoy.
 
Actually, those look pretty good. I'm always amazed at what these computers can do. Here we take a photograph and turn it into a "painting" in a matter of seconds, and I sit and struggle for hours trying to get a painting to look like a photgraph!! :wall:
 
Art,

That's like trying to explain to someone watching you pour money, blood, sweat, tears and more money into your car, that British cars are fun.
 
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