[TR] The Gift of a Triumph

[Rye Livingston]

Gonna be a lot of opinions on this.  

I am going to counter that one because my stock steering is very easy to steer and turn.  My wife, who is a smallish woman, has driven my 1960 TR3A in that last 3 autocross events held at Triumphest on the west coast, and won the women's class.  Obviously lots of hard cornering, and no problems.

For those of you interested, this was my run.  https://youtu.be/6BZ7LfgOgnA
Second fastest lap of the day, yes I'm bragging, only beat by a crazy fast TR6 with a Buick V6 engine, and fully autocross modified suspension, with 12" wide tires all the way around.

Back to the steering, if your stock system is difficult to steer, time to rebuild it.

Rye
PH: 530-FIND-RYE

On Dec 15, 2018, at 03:17 PM, Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net> wrote:

So many suggestions, but if the car is for a young lady, a rack and pinion
conversion would make steering soooo much easier.

Andrew Uprichard
Jackson, MIchigan

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From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Hoyt
Duff
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 2:53 PM
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Subject: [TR] The Gift of a Triumph

I met a new friend today. He owns a TR3 and has owned it for about 35
years, He did a restoration on it a while back and talked to me about
doing some maintenance on this treasure because he wants to give it
to his daughter, who is graduating from college this spring.

I reminded him that giving someone a TR3, especially someone not
mechanical inclined, is not necessarily a gift of love.

We discussed some ways in which the TR3 could be a more reliable car
for his daughter. It would not be her primary transportation, just
something to occasionally enjoy, but not become a maintenance burden
or morph into just another non-running TR3 laid up in someone's
garage.

It is bone stock. I have a few ideas about what might be changed to
make it more suitable for a gift, but I'd appreciate some ideas from
the list since what I would do for my TR# might be very different from
what might be best for this young TR3 owner.

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Hoyt
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