Bye Bye Stripes ?

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You could always have one side each way [:D]

[Hasbeen]

Thanks for that Ruddy, love that old photo, with the coal loading conveyor system. I can imagine the labour that went over the centuries to build up that little port.

It really is a fantastic place to the likes of me. All that & a beautiful TR, you really are a lucky chappy.

I pulled it up om Google earth, & found the coal loader gone. They should have kept it for its history I reckon. Nothing like that in Oz, our coal loading facilities in my area are a 3 to 5 mile long finger jetty, going straight out to sea, with a head out there to take 4 or 5, 100,000 ton bulk carriers at a time.

The one at Hay Point near MacKay has 8 to 12, 3 mile long trains of coal trucks a day coming in, to keep the conveyors fed with the stuff. Pity really, yours looked much nicer.

Interestingly my favourite place on earth is Whitehaven Beach, on Whitsunday Island in Queensland Great Barrier Reef. Pull it up on Google Earth, you should find it interesting. 8 miles of snow white coral sand, it is a beautiful natural place, 10 miles from even the nearest island resort. Hazlewood island, which shelters it has a couple of thousand acres of coral reefs & flats to explore, a truly beautiful place, as is yours in an entirely different way.

It is a pity there is not enough time to get to see all this stuff personally, but thanks for the glimpse of yours. [Sorry about your thread].

Hasbeen

[MCNX BFF]

Paul,
I am <font color="red">loving</font id="red"> the black stripe against that gorgeous paint! I would keep the alloys as well as the US spec bumper.[^] Let us know what you decide.

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[john]

Just to add my five pence worth having seen the car in the flesh i thought it looked amazing as it is


So take a few days to think it over before you do anything

[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

[RUDDY]

Thanks for all your comments, I finally got hold of a set of centre caps for the factory alloys so I will get some tyres on them (swapped them over when I bought Minilites) and maybe have a spell with those fitted.

The stripes are a more difficult one, once you start peeling theres no turning back !!

US spec bumpers would always stay, one of my favourite parts of the car.

All the best, Paul

[Howard]

Can you tell me what size minilites you have fitted? It looks like you haven't needed to do any arch modifications? Ohh and the car will look fantastic either with or without stripes and whatever set of alloys you go with!!

[RUDDY]

The Minilites are 7"x13" running 205/60 tyres

Cheers, Paul

[Chris Turner]

There is a superb article about Pauls fantastic TR7V8 in the next issue of the TR Drivers club magazine, there is so much detailed information, I think it will be divided into 2 parts. I think everyone knows its one of my favourite cars and I was very impressed with Pauls article.

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[RUDDY]

Hope you can all read Cumbrian, some words are similar to English [:D]

[frankman]

[:I] Hi Ruddy, I've seen your restoration picture . May I ask who is the guy that organized the looking original seat fabric - I would like to have the substance in green - but the true color match the door panel.. I could not find the article Thanks for the info

Hello from Switzerland

Frank

[RUDDY]

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[:I] Hi Ruddy, I've seen your restoration picture . May I ask who is the guy that organized the looking original seat fabric - I would like to have the substance in green - but the true color match the door panel.. I could not find the article Thanks for the info

Hello from Switzerland

Frank
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Frank, have a look at the following

Cheers, Paul

http://www.forum.triumphtr7.com/topic.a ... t,material

[frankman]

Thank you Ruddy I will ask there and if someone needs also the green Version let me know

Hello from Switzerland

Frank

[Cobber]

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Paul

There is much to be said for leaving it as the designer intended

Lancsman
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<font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Nah sorry but I don't buy the concept of what rolled outta the factory gate is what the designer really intended.
The original car was not necessarily as the as designer intended,
I'd say it was more like as the accountants intended!
Remember great hoards of parsimonious, misery-guts, penny-pinching bean-counters ruled the Planet Leyland in those days, designers and engineers were way down the food chain.
For instance, there is no way known that in the 70's a designer would've considered steelies and those fugly hubcaps for a sportscar!

So by making sympathetic period improvements to the car, your probably closer to what the designer actually intended!

And lets face it if the bloody bean-counters hadn't 've meddled, our cars would've had a much better reputation for reliability.
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80'Triumph TR7, , 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
85'Alfa 90, 69'Ford F250.
76' Ford F100

[FI Spyder]

The car is basically what the designer intended. The headlight pods were changed from the flush square style and the swage line had a reverse swoop behind the front wheel well. It may have been a T top (a la Stag) but that's where the bean counters came in. US dealers (where most of the cars would go) wanted a low cost sports car so steel wheels where standard (although they could have done a better job than the full cover plastics). Reliability was a result of bad assembly because the plant was located in high unemployment militant longshoremen land. We make much of the rusting of early cars but most cars of that era rusted. How many Datsun 240Z's, B510's, B210's do you see running around compared to when they were ubiquitous back in the day. Even Audi where rust buckets until they made a serious attack on the problem with plastic floors etc. Even as late as 1988 Japanese cars were rust buckets. Take my Tercel station wagon, they used to be all over the road, then you would see them with wheel wells all rusted out. Now they're all gone except for a few such that I have people come up to me to talk about it and wanting to know if I would sell it to them. This summer I do have to attend to some rust on wheel well edges to prepare it for collector plate approval next year (25 years old).

T would say rust wise my Solihull Spider is rust free like my Acura and although it has 24,000 fewer miles it is 11 years older.

The switches are cheap and electrical connections not sealed but that is part and parcel of the low end English car. Shame they didn't spend a few more quid on that part of it.







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