Teher
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In the last few days, we have been to Spain, as far as Calella de Palafrugell and Tossa de Mar…
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Michelin XAS 165/15 (80) (no inner tube needed).
A little more expensive than the competition, of course, but safety is priceless, even if you just have to go and buy your baguette !
29 psi at the front wheels and 26 psi at the rear and the steering will be as light as a post-war van…
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After 1960 !
if you are registered in historic (Carte Grise « Véhicule de Collection ») with a pre-1960 car, no MOT needed !
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Just like Bugatti 35 and 51 !
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Last war paint.
The front mask is in paint and the frog is going to stop the lipstick...
And what dashboard !
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That’s exactly what I did on my Caterham, so I wouldn't end up with legs like sequoia trunks…
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I recently bought this handcrafted radiator and it works perfectly. I am sure that any craftsman will be able to do the same.
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Remember to check the felt seal of the oil dipstick !
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My fake one doesn’t hurt !
And also is so cheap !
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La Cie du Garage Monceau was the official French retailer of Triumph. If my information is correct, they were created in 1956 and remained Triumph dealers until the 70s…
And with our greatest French singer !
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Thanks !
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1 hour ago, ianc said:
In 4VC, the panel which closes the rear of the cockpit, called (I think) the Rear Squab Assembly), has been fitted with a number of toggles. These toggles turn through 90 degrees to lock into position, and allowed a net to be fixed in position, and inside could be placed maps and other paraphernalia. This arrangement was confirmed to me by Graham Robson and Willy Cave.
In 1969, when I bought the car, there was no net, but I have used the toggles to mount a simple net, and it's very useful.
Ian Cornish
Would you post a photo, please ?
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On 1/8/2022 at 10:51 AM, Ian Vincent said:
Teher, you are clearly a man with too much time on his hands.
very smart though.
Rgds Ian
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Last achievement strongly reflecting the amateur craftsmanship but, all the same, very practical…
My co-pilot and I often ride with helmets for obvious aesthetic reasons… and also and above all because, except to have the two side-screens in place, the TR2 and 3 are a festival of drafts…
Nevertheless, there are times when the helmets are at rest and I then install them on the small seats that my older children now refuse to use on the false pretext that they cannot fit their seat and their long legs in a space of 1000 cm !
As I wish to avoid the Bolide the humiliation too often reserved for TRs by their aging owners, which consists in adopting a driving rhythm that by the nuance that characterizes me, I would qualify as "phlegmatic", in other words, devoid of any sportiness, I force myself to adopt a rhythm that is to say the least sustained and inevitably, my two beautiful helmets begin to dance the jig until they settle down in a very inconsistent way and at the risk of being irreparably damaged, between the seats mounting brackets and the tunnel…
Today's rally pilots use nets to store their helmets and I guess in the old days the technique to prevent them from wandering dangerously around the cockpit and having them on hand at all times must have been the same as it is today. ... Anyway, I imagined that it had to be so and undertook a highly "crappy" but very practical realisation !
Tried with an Ikéa provision net, the first realization turned out to be rather disappointing and quite frankly pathetically grotesque ... Also, I had to find a more "authentic" net… I then had the idea of using the helmet nets used by the military to slip camouflage bands or branches into them.
A thin branch of reed to keep them on the back wall and some old military leather to hang everything from the hood poles and voila !
I don’t know if it ever happened, but it’s very practical and looking old enough not to swear in the Bolide’s cabin!
Well, I promise, I'll stop decorating !
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There is a complete technical control in France for all cars, to be done every two years.
However, for cars over thirty years old which have a “collection” traffic title, this technical control is increased to five years because it is considered that these cars run little.
For cars endowed with a "collection" circulation title and which were manufactured before 1960, there is no longer any mandatory technical control because their owners are considered to be passionate collectors and very attentive to their vehicle and therefore, it would be superfluous ...
Regarding road mortality, I doubt that this is the result of poor maintenance of old vehicles!
I would rather lean for a general behavior of French motorists and more precisely that of a certain category of the population, rather young and not necessarily French for several generations who happily frees themselves from the rules ... It is only to circulate a little on our road network to quickly notice ...
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No MOT here, in France…
And as a pre-1960 vehicle, my venerable automobile is exempt from any checks !
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Wiring of rear light done!
Obviously with Jean-Louis at the maneuver and me as a zealous assistant ...
He also took the opportunity to review the fixation of 123, which my now ex-mechanic had not seen fit to ensure correct fixation…
I entered through a fog as dense as an Xmas pudding and when I got there, the reversing into the passage to the garage was done by the comforting glow of a long range spotlight!
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My TR2 is surrounded by a fake old namesake and a contemporary Italian…
Where did you drive to with your TR today
in TRs Out and About
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