They said "Factory" not "Showroom" so you have to be the spot on winner!
Looking for pictures soon.
All the best,
Bill
Bill Beecher
'58 TR3A TS/30766L "Tarbaby"
'62 TR3B TCF/2549L www.triumphowners.com/1566
'68 Land Rover Series IIa 88" "The Beast"
"Hello, my name is Bill and I own an old British car. Now...What are the
next 11 steps?"
-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Macartney
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:32 AM
To: Triumph List
Subject: [TR] "As it left the Factory" Wish us luck ????
This coming weekend (being Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee) an old and valued
friend from Standard-Triumph and I, have prepared his imported and superbly
restored TR250 for a special event. Sadly, we were committed to the car
event some months ago, so the invitation from The Palace to take part in the
River Thames Festival on the Royal Barge came just a tad too late. But never
mind, I'm sure Her Majesty will have a lovely day!
Anyway, back to the car event.
It's a very large one and the organisers are expecting over 2000 LBC's of
all makes and types to take part. Mike (my old chum) and I have been busy
preparing the 250 for its debut in a group called "As It Left The Factory."
Actually, we expect to find a lot of people jockeying for a concours prize
in the same category so with our own 'inside knowledge' from days of yore,
the 250 has had the following work done to it:
1. The body has been completely
sprayed with industrial lanolin. This nicely covers the superb paint job and
gives the car a boring, dull, matt finish.We've been careful to ensure an
overspray of lanolin around the windscreen edge and glass side windows. All
this lanolin will easily wash off with warm water and a high pressure hose -
just as did the original stuff.
2. The soft top is covered with protective plastic sheeting held in place
with tape around the roof edges and to stop flapping 3. All chromework has
been covered in adhesive-backed white cotton masking tape, while stainless
or ally brightwork is covered with the lanolin anyway 4. The rostyle hub
caps and licence plates have been removed and are in a box in the boot 5.
The headlamps are out and waxed cardboard discs cover the headlamp buckets.
This is how the cars left the UK anyway and as the 250 now has dip left
halogen units instead of the dip right sealed beams, it's entirely right the
lights should be removed for 'authentic judging'
6. The red
and white indicator lenses are back in place to temporarily replace the
yellow ones of a TR5 7. Carpets in the footwells have been removed and are
in another box in the boot 8. All upholstery is covered with protective
plastic 9. The windscreen has replica (as far as our memories and Photoshop
skills allow) production / shipping / storage / anti-freeze labels - and all
slapped on it such a way you can hardly see out of it. In other words, just
as it left the factory.
10. To complete the picture, we'll be delivering it to the event on a
trailer - because that's exactly how the vast majority of export cars came
off the line and got themselves shipped to the docks.
There's only one thing
we've been unable to do and that's to run a set of 1968 Goodyear redlines to
earth - but hopefully no-one will notice. We think this plan is just a bit
of harmless fun-poking at a real PITA arrogant, know-all (who actually
doesn't) UK TR5 enthusiast we know will be there with both his grossly
over-restored cars who he maintains are always exhibited as factory fresh.
The idea is to park the 250 in between them if we can, while another friend
with a Standard 10 Van, signwritten as The Standard Motor Company, Coventry
in the original grey/blue paint colour hopes to be very close at hand. Will
we be successful?
I'll let you know next week.
Jonmac
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