[TR] Rug Rat Seats in TR's

[Ken Gano, home PC]

Great story.  I remember my Dad stuffing 2 or 3 1st and 2nd graders in the 
TR3 and giving rides, but, of course, that was 1959 or 1960 and no one had 
ever heard of seat belts, much less car seats :-)

It clearly would not be "legal" today, but we all seemed to survive.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cosmo Kramer" <tr4a2712 at yahoo.com>
To: <Triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 8:31 AM
Subject: [TR] Rug Rat Seats in TR's


> Hi
> List!
> To the person that started this thread of wanting to know if his
> children were legal to ride in a TRIUMPH. As was stated before by another 
> list
> person, YES it is legal as long as you use the proper approved law seat. I
> don't see any problem occurring if you do this. I started taking my grand
> daughter out in my TR4A when she was two years old, as a reward for her
> willing to help me work on the car. I had loosened the bolts that held the
> tranny cover on the floor pans & had her use the proper size socket,
> extension, & ratchet to finish removing them. I also had her help me do 
> the
> assembling of the cover when the time came. Of course I had to Finnish up 
> with
> the finial torquing because she didn't have the strength, but she was 
> pretty
> close to that point by using the torque wrench with an extender bar. The 
> next
> year, I had her help me rotate the wheels. again I had to help her remove 
> the
> tyre off the wheel studs after she had loosen & removed each lug nut
> (again she was using an extension on a ratchet. This time I placed a piece 
> of
> corrugated cardboard on the passenger seat before placing the child's 
> approved
> seat on my leather seats, so as not to cause any harm to the TR seats from 
> the
> sharp corners that are on the child's seat. Also she was now about 20 
> pounds
> heavier than the last time. It was a joy to see her enjoying the wind 
> blowing
> her long hair ponytail about & the her smile from ear to ear. This year I
> taught her how to remove the spark plugs, gap them, & reinstall them into 
> the
> engine. She's getting better in handling the torque wrench now. Because I 
> have
> the engine out of the car now with the tranny off, because I want to 
> install
> the Christian Marx's rear Engine Seal, I'm having her learn about marking 
> the
> Flywheel at every 90^ so I can mark these points on the Fan Extension 
> before I
> have them notched, as I have described in Cosmo's Repair Manual.
>
> This
> TRIUMPH has served many purpose in it's life. It taught me how to repair 
> it
> (when I first obtained it I only knew where to put the gas & the key in 
> it).
> It taught me how to use the computor (so I could send E-mails to the list,
> pictures to friends, &  the use of many different programs. Like PFD that 
> I
> used for the manual, how to cut & paste pictures when writing articles, & 
> I'm
> wanting to learn how to edit movies from those that I've made with the 
> TR4A
> going through the 'Tail of the Dragon' & many other rides). It has opened 
> up
> my knowledge of machining, & location of industrial supply companies.
>
> It has
> also given me a chance to meet many of the VTR members & other TRIUMPH 
> clubs &
> their cars. So to me, my TR4A has opened up many different worlds of 
> learning
> & has paid for itself over & over again in the joys of enriching my life.
> -Cosmo Kramer
>
>
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