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I thought this photo might be of interest on a dull
Sunday afternoon.

Many of you know the 1969ish TR6 Crypt Car has few original
commission numbers. Mostly aftermarket number tags from
the big three.

For real, I've got a TR250 engine block and TR4a tranny
casing and that's all I know for sure with manufacture
stamps.

I think I found another one this morning while tearing out
the passenger side trailing arm. "Wed 5-1-72" embossed on
the T/A outside arm.

Cool!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

May 1st was my mother's birthday
I was born on a Wednesday
In 1972 I was working my first job out of University
in Columbia, Maryland.

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TADate.jpg
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]May 1st was my mother's birthday
I was born on a Wednesday
In 1972 I was working my first job out of University
in Columbia, Maryland. [/QUOTE]

Maybe a conspiracy here.......

There are seven letters in the name Lincoln,

There are seven letters in the name Kennedy,

Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln,

Kennedy was killed while riding in a Lincoln,

Lincoln was killed in the Ford theater, ya-da, ya-da ya-da....

Did you check you email yet???? I need some answers.
 
Isn't your car a 69? with a 68 engine, a tr4 trans, and 72 trailing arm. Are there any original parts in Crypty?
It's like a Heinz 57 variety car.
I found out my 72 Tr6 has a later rear valance eith the licence plate light cutouts up high, but unused, so your not the only one.
 
I think it's great how many parts we can swap from car to car. Now that's engineering!
 
Dale,
I hate to spoil your fun, but if that date was applied in the UK it would refer to the fifth of January.
On the other hand, why would they put a date on in such a way in the factory. Maybe it was applied States-side when it was removed from a wrecked car.
Nick
 
Just checked. January 5th was a Wednesday. May 1st was a Monday in 1972.
 
I knew it!!

The writing on that control arm looked exactly like the writing on the space ship that Dana Scully found off the coast of Africa when Fox Mulder had disappeared in the next to last season of the X-Files.

(BioGenesis aired on 5/16/99) How about that coincidence in May again?

Crypty is really an alien craft!!!!

That explains a lot of things.
 
YOu guys got too much time on yer hands..... C'mon over here and use it to work on this TR2.
course now its driving me crazy.. I remember finding a date on something I was cleaning up the other day, but I can't remember what it was.. I think It may have been the crankshaft extention I had in the electrolisys bucket, but I'm not sure.
Cool pic Dale. I love finding stuff like that.
 
I think that the one that I'm mailing to Dale is dated 7/8/72. Close, but not May.
 
That "date code" is raised up, not scratched or engraved in.

Now who can explain that casting method??

I'm tellin' ya, it's back to the space ship......
 
You ain't lookin at no space ship. That's
a weather balloon with wheels.

Your gonna scare the people talking about
space ships.

2wrench
 
That's Major Jesse Marcelle said the second time he was asked. His first story was a bit different and thus began the legend known as Roswell.
 
Kinda looks like a result of something called "sand casting", hence the texture on the casting. Can't explain it being hollow though; sand casting tends to make solid castings. In sand casting, a master model is half-embedded into a tray of sand, a separating medium (a powder) is sprinkled over, and a second tray is laid down and packed with sand. When separated, the master model is removed, mold reassembled, and through vent holes the molten aluminum is poured into sand mold and allowed to cool. Voila, a new aluminum piece. That, however, doesn't explain how it is hollow.

So much for the sand-cast theory.
 
In a sand casting they add a core to the inside of the mold to make a hollow area in the final cast piece, then there is investment casting whole different way to make a casting and then replacast, where they make a part from foam, encase it in Sand, pour in molten metal, it melts the foam and replace foam with metal,
 
Tom-

Back in my younger days I worked at a custom sand casting
shop. The molds themselves were hand pressed sand that were
a one use only mold. It was destroyed removing the finished piece. The molds were usually two halfs.

Hollow areas could be made by several methods.

Looking at the TR trailing arm, I suspect the aluminum was
poured into the mold and allowed to cool for a very precise
amount of time in order to build a cooled thickness against the sand mold shape.

Then while the core was still molten aluminum, the mold was
dumped and a hollow shape resulted. Kinda like making
chocholate easter eggs.

But that was a lifetime ago and I'm mostly befuddled these
days!

d
 
I too worked in a casting shop. The holes in the T/A are made from the "posts" that supported the center of the mold to form the hollow area. If it was a labor intensive process, the Brits would surely employ it.
 
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