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TR2/3/3A Where is my TR3?

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OK guys - I found it. The original Bill of Sale for my TR3 from Bill Vaughan in NYC dated June 23, 1956. His Bill of Sale did not even have a serial or motor number because the car was destined for another dealer in Worcester, MA but he sold it to me because there was a long wait for delivery and I was hot to go. The total purchase price was $2,731.52 and he took my MG TD Mark II in trade and gave me $1,100.00 for it - exactly the same price I paid for it several months before. I got the numbers from off the chattel mortgage from a local bank for $1,762.00 payable in 24-month installments of $74.00 each. The serial number was TS 11009E and the motor number was TS 10838. Check your titles and see if anyone has those numbers and let me know if my TR3 is still alive (like my Twin Cam MG that turned up in Australia of all places). Thanks.

PD
 
Good Luck. PD!
hope you find her !
( what was her original color, anyway?)
did you get pics of your old twin camMG from the current owner, or did I miss that?

Merry Xmas.

Guy
 
original color was green with tan interior and tan top. I got a picture of the Twin Cam from Australia but it didn't look like much. I believe it was posted here a couple of weeks ago. Funny about those old cars we owned. I can still recall the sound of the engines as they went through the gears and what they drove and handled like - even more than 50 years later. Amazing.
 
Geo Hahn said:
The E suffix sounds more like an engine number - or perhaps they read an 'L' as an 'E'.
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I think the two numbers just got swapped somehow. Usually engine numbers run a little higher.

But, there should be an 'L' somewhere, if it was sold in NYC.
 
You're probably right. Who remembers. It was 58 years ago. After a short but hard and interesting life which included getting rolled over at Lime Rock (not by me! The story appeared in the VTR Register a few years ago.), the TR3 was traded in on a 1957 Porsche coupe from Tolm Motors in Darien, Ct. I wonder what happened to that one as well. Anyone familiar with Porsches?
 
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