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Saw this gorgeous TR4 at the car show on Saturday. This car is a body-on-frame restoration, and a very nice one at that. He found the car, after much searching, in basically original conditon, zero rust. Reworked the engine, hired a top-drawer spray man and slapped in a new interior. A real beauty she was! This goes to show that solid cars are still around, just gotta find them. (I think the had to dig pretty deep to acquire her at the outset, worth it)

Bill
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Shoot, it's a twin! Looks just like my '62 did... back in 1979-80!

Even the int/ext colors are the same, along with the black sunvisors and early TR6 steering wheel. Only differnces would have been the wheels (I now have the same KNs), exterior mirrors and my dash is painted rather than wood trimmed.

I wonder if it's Brian Sanborn car (https://webpages.charter.net/sanborn/TR4.html)? His was pretty much original and he was careful to keep it that way during the years he owned it, and it brought a premium price when he decided he needed a Miata instead (yes, that's a gagging noise you hear!).

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Actually, if I take my glasses off so the picture blurs this looks a lot like my running TR4. As soon as I rebuild the chassis, fix the small rust patch in the floorboards, straighten the rear fender, get a good coat of paint on her, rip out the tatty interior and replace with something similar, put on some good KN wheels, and get a new wife after my current one divorces me from spending so much triumph money, I should be very competitive with this one!

Don't think this was Mr Sanborn's car - he had a painted dash. Was the owner by chance out of Houston? There supposedly is a nice TR4 around here (not mine!) but I haven't hooked up yet with the club to confirm.

Randy
 
Naw, this guy is out of New Roads, Louisiana. It was one of the best "non professional" restorations I had seen. He farmed out the work locally (near Baton Rouge), his son helped with the engine, and he hired a really good spray man that knew how to paint. The paint was pretty near flawless. (I did see a TR6 that was done at the show by a "professional" shop and it couldn't hold a candle to this little TR4)

I was impressed.....
Shoot, makes me want to have a red sports car.

Bill
 
Hi All, It's my understanding that Brian's TR4 is now in England, Brian sold it about a year ago. For some reason he bought a Miata. Mike

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Man, If my old TR4A looked like that, I'd still have it.
 
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