[TR] TR3 question

Fri Aug 14 19:37:32 MDT 2015

I had a Healey 100, I don't worry overly much about things.  But with the windshield down in "racing position" I do remember contemplating the effects of a collision with the narrow metal top of the windshield and my face and (or teeth)

Greg Lemon

---- Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net> wrote: 
> I'd also like to nominate my wife for the "grip onto something if the brake
> lights come on in the car 400 yards in front" society.  In our "regular" car
> it is the handle above the door:  in the TR3 it is usually a bracing posture
> against the cockpit capping.  One reason NEVER to get a grab handle.
> 
> But I must add:  one time a truck passed us and a guy leaned out the window.
> "She's a beauty!" he hollered.  "Yes, " I replied, "and we've been married a
> long time!"
> 
> I am still milking that one !
> 
> Andrew Uprichard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> terryrs at comcast.net
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> 
> I do feel need to congratulate the manufacturer's engineering of that
> handle, since it's big enough for my wife to clinch with both hands as she,
> vociferously, I might add, contemplates the proximity of the pavement and
> the girth and ponderous rubber of two-story Peterbilt tires rumbling near
> her head as we whizz past them in the slow lane.  
> 
> One thing, though, that could have been improved.  British Leyland could
> have built the handle pre-engineered with the indents of knuckle grips
> instead of forcing owners' wives to imprint these into the metal manually
> later.  
> 
> All that said, she's come to enjoy our rides through New Hampshire country
> lanes on sunny summer days, top down and wind flinging through the cockpit.
> Note that she doesn't take naps like she does in our other cars.
> 
> Benefit for me?  No room for paper parcels from shopping mall forays, hence
> ready excuse to go for ice cream instead. I am, of course, expressive of
> sorrow that we are forced to miss that bonding experience....
> 
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A  TS 58667, driving like a dream right now.
> New Hampshire
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Macartney" <john.macartney at ukpips.org.uk>
> To: "Bob Labuz" <yellowtr at adelphia.net>, "Don Hiscock"
> <don.hiscock at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Triumphs" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 5:17:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 question
> 
> In today's safety conscious age, I suppose the grab handle does look a bit
> out of place, bearing in mind safety belts hadn't registered on the
> Standard-Triumph Engineering or Production radars of the fifties and
> sixties. So yup, it's a good place to test the uncrackability of your skull
> or compression resistance of front teeth :) But if anyone gets the
> opportunity of checking out a pre-war MG PA/PB or even a J2, not only did
> the passenger have the opportunity of smashing themselves against the grab
> handle, they had the added pleasure of an ignition key and main lighting
> switch ensuring the 'job' was really done properly!
> 
> Jonmac
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
> Labuz
> Sent: 14 August 2015 19:26
> To: Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com>; Andrew Uprichard
> <auprichard at uprichard.net>
> Cc: Triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 question
> 
> Don and Andrew,
> 
> I always called the "Panic Bar"
> 
> Bob
> 
> On 08/14/2015 01:32 PM, Don Hiscock wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Those are for the passenger grab rail.  They attach with sort of an
> Acme-style slotted, countersunk screw.
> 
> 	On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Uprichard
> <auprichard at uprichard.net <mailto:auprichard at uprichard.net> > wrote:
> 	
> 
> 		My last several cars have been small-mouth or early 3As.  I
> am now restoring a 1961 3A which has an all-metal front scuttle.  Under the
> scuttle lip and likely to be covered by the dash capping, there are 4 sets
> of two captured speed nuts set in at angles (see pic).  Anyone know what
> these are for?
> 
> 		 
> 
> 		Andrew Uprichard
> 
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