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New member and new owner of a derelict 64 TR4

Landrith

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Hi All! My first car was a 2nd hand TR7, then I had a couple of 70's Spitfires, then 25 years later a couple of XJ40's. When the electric fuel pump in my 87 XJ was stranding me and the shops were holding on to it for 6 weeks or more and out of experience with the model, not even beginning to work on it, I started thinking again about simpler, pre computer times..I noticed that my 1948 Ferguson TO20 always started and when I realized a car in the background of another car for sale in a classified ad was a TR4 with the same engine and mechanical bowl fuel filter and also for sale, I bought it sight unseen and trailered what was probably someone's extra or parts car home 5 hours.
 
Welcome to BCF Landrith! Good move going back to the simpler times of pre-computer cars - especially true with British cars! Be sure to pop in at our Triumph forum - very active group and very friendly.
 
Hi Landrith, welcome to the asylum!

Don't be surprised to find some differences with your TR4. A TO20 actually has a Continental engine; only TEA20 got the Standard engine. And even then, there are rather more differences than similarities. I hadn't realized just how many, until I bought a TEA20 myself.
 
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