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TR2/3/3A Trailering when wet.

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If you are going to trailer in the wet are you better with the hood up or tonneau cover on?

I don't like loading my TR3A with the hood up.

David
 
I would use whichever you think leaks the least. For me that would be the hood, closely followed by the tonneau (only because the zipper is not waterproof.
 
I trailer in the uk to race meeting with just tonneau and no windscreen. Just one aero.
If it’s really wet I tape the front edge of the tonneau to the scuttle.

if it’s a fabric hood you have just consider the need to put it away wet when you get to your destination- not the best idea.
 
I can understand a race car on a trailer, but have NO idea why a good running Tr is not driven
to whatever show or event. Sure, you may get damp. but you wont melt.
Mad dog
 
Unless it's an enclosed trailer in tow it will get even more wet, dirt, grime with what the trailer & tow vehicle kicks up. How I know towed mine on open trailer 1K miles road muck got so bad stopped at spray car wash 3 times along the way washing it on trailer, didn't want the grim to bake in sun between downpours. Lesson should have drove the TR towed the 2nd vehicle
 
We have a show here in the UK called Fast Ford, for exactly that,
Every year the same car won the concourse, it was a Mk 2 Escort RS 2000 that was trailered to the show, rolled off the trailer,
Then they changed the wheels where it stood, they had never seen the road, or even turned, Just could not get my head around it.
Waste of a good RS.
 
Well ..... having judged concourse at the VTR, a number of times, I fully get the restored
beauty trailered to the show for her debout. Get a nice trophy to catch dust on a shelf. Cool,
but at some point JUST DRIVE IT!!
Too many cars don't get driven enough for the kids of this generation to even see them and smile and wave .
We can all remember that day when, as freshed faced kids, we lusted after a LBC purring down the street.
What if we had NOT seen this car and dreamed???
Mad dog
 
mctriumph said:
Well ..... having judged concourse at the VTR, a number of times, I fully get the restored
beauty trailered to the show for her debout. Get a nice trophy to catch dust on a shelf. Cool,
but at some point JUST DRIVE IT!!
Too many cars don't get driven enough for the kids of this generation to even see them and smile and wave .
We can all remember that day when, as freshed faced kids, we lusted after a LBC purring down the street.
What if we had NOT seen this car and dreamed???
Mad dog
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I have also judged Concours in my past. But I have to admit that I was a bit surprised when I received deductions for not having a perfectly clean undercarriage on my TR4. I had driven it from California to Colorado for the event. I did spend considerable time cleaning the whole car after the trip. But without a lift the frame was not perfect.
I just know that I had a lot more fun driving to the event than the trailer queens. And after the event I had even more enjoyment zig zagging my way across many continental divide passes.
Charley
 
With car shows of 50 or more years ago, were the cars trailered to the show? Were "dust on the tires and suspension" issues a big thing back then?
 
I spent 5 years restoring my TR2. It's mine to do what I choose...drive it, trailer it, crash it, burn it, or park it in my living room to look at until I die. If you put the time into a perfect restoration, you would get it to. I can tell you that my TR2 was restored as closely to the condition it rolled off the boat as is humanly possible...and I would neither let any judge pick at it nor care what anyone else thinks about it or the way I keep it.

If you want to drive your car, then enter the "survivor" class. See... a class for everyone and every car.

I have no interest in car shows or trophies. But some are, and that is fine. My reason is I had a close friend who purchased a 1976 bicentennial Vette. It showed up with 3.2 miles on the odometer, and he rolled it off the truck in reverse onto his trailer and into a shed ( so the odometer would never add mileage. 25 years later he backed back on the trailer to back to a car show in the survivor class. He lost to a 1990 car that was driven regularly, but looked perfect. The DA judge could not be convinced the car had not been in an accident! By definition, no car newer than 1976 could possibly beat his car, but one did. That's how bad original Vettes were, but we are conditioned to see them restored better than new. Judges are human...and car shows are biased subjective. I got no use for them.
 
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My first judging experience was in Chicago(Rockford) 95, our team could find no fault with
2 prefect Tr3's. Top to bottom just like showroom new. Except one car had unpainted wing
bolts/washers. Minus one point for each wing not having "factory finish" on the fasteners.
First and second place.
Mad dog
 
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