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Are there any real TR5s left, or have they all been broken up to a greater or lesser degree and reconstructed to create multiple clones ?

 

Cheers

 

Alec

 

Always willing to learn Alex, how would you tell a 'real' one?

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All the fine detail unique to the TR5PI, taken in conjunction with a known and documented good history and provenance.

 

Of course there are some kosher TR5s remaining, but there are also far too many nine bob noters masquerading as pukka 5s.

 

I wouldn't even think about discussing the fine detail in public, by the way, that's how the creators of fraud cars learn how to do it . . . . . some of these guys spent years learning their trade, whether it's replicating / cloning relatively mundane items like a boggo TR5 or at the other end miraculously recreating an ex-works Whatevermobile team car from a half of lager, a packet of crisps, and a handful of nuts'n'bolts that a bloke down the pub said came off the original car.

 

Cheers

 

Alec

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Alec, you know full well that I never drink lager !!! B)B)B) (well not by choice but if I'm in Germany then there aren't many alternatives ) :wub:

 

hoges.

 

By the way i can confirm that who ever owns UUW102F then it is a genuine TR5 and not a re-worked/re-badged 250

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Most TR,s would have had panels replaced and new or chassis repairs done by now.They evolve like the works Tr,s, parts replaced etc. Unless you have a time warped TR such as Andrews TR6 then most are not as they were from the factory. We are extremely lucky that we can still get parts for our cars and carry on with our obsession/hobby.

Regards Harry

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I knew this TR5 and its owner many years ago when it was local. I had a small hand in final stages of rebuild - fitting fibre glass wings. Good steel ones were just not available. I wonder if it still has them?

 

It was a fast TR5, faster than mine. The owner at the time looked after it meticulously and had owned for some time before he did the work on it - which was a first class. Last seen in a garage near by being sold by his Ex as part of settlement - sad day.

 

It also featured in Piggots book on TR's pictured at Nene Valley rail shed.

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