[TR] "As it left the Factory" Wish us luck ????

[Jim Henningsen]

Sounds like a blast! Good luck and post pictures.
Jim Henningsen
Ocala, FL
62 TR4 (about to get painted after an18 month tear down)
75TR6



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On May 31, 2012, at 7:31 AM, John Macartney <flywheelcoventry1 at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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