A real concours

[Tom Fremont]

Here's a link to a recent concours, 1st one CD8315L gained entry into:

 

http://www.ohioconcours.com/gallery.asp

 

Mine was in " Sports Contemporary 1960-1975 "

 

See if you can find the NART Spyder

[Rhodri]

Yours looks real smart, with the machined Surrey top and all.

 

Rod

[TR 2100]

Yours looks real smart, with the machined Surrey top and all.

 

I'm not sure if the surrey top is 'machined', polished or painted -

I suspect painted.

 

I've seen photos of a TR4 with the rear screen section polished but

with body colour top section.

It looked very smart and I wanted to do mine the same way, but

it seems the casting is not really such good quality and there are

two welds in it, so it doesn't lend itself to polishing and I was put

off the idea.

 

Anyone else tried this?

 

AlanR

[Tom Fremont]

I'm not sure if the surrey top is 'machined', polished or painted -

I suspect painted.

 

I've seen photos of a TR4 with the rear screen section polished but

with body colour top section.

It looked very smart and I wanted to do mine the same way, but

it seems the casting is not really such good quality and there are

two welds in it, so it doesn't lend itself to polishing and I was put

off the idea.

 

Anyone else tried this?

 

AlanR

 

Hi Alan,

 

I have another frame I thought to do this to, but haven't moved on it because 1) the car has a body colour roof which looks quite fetching too, but may look peculiar with the polished backlight, and 2) the rubber seal for the glass could become a bit of an eyesore with everything else so swish. These seals, fore and aft, present a significant limitation on the refinement potential IMO. I'd like to discover a way around this, like a stainless cover of some sort. Short of that it would be nice to find a metal bead ( like the early TR4s had ) to replace the plastic one .

 

The alloy roof panel was metal finished, polished in " engine turn " fashion and clear coated. Several concours guests postulated that it was carbon fiber and I didn't bother to enlighten them - they're already so enlightened of course . All it takes is to peer down into the rain gutters to see the spot welds .

 

http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/im...15L9-6-8027.jpg