[TR] Barn find!!! or is this a Garage Find???

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

On 12/23/18 8:44 PM, dave wrote:
> As my son is now bringing this beast home,  he relayed an interesting 
> story from the now previous owner.
>
> Apparently back in the 70s, when these were just old cars, he came 
> upon a derelict tr3 by the side of the road.   It had a factory hard 
> top.   Which is now on this car.
>
> I think we used to call that "midnight auto supply. "


My garage find found me while I was at a gas station. The owner asked me 
if I wanted another one. He had to move for a new job on short notice 
and had a non-running TR3A in the garage he needed to get rid of 
quickly. The car was complete and basically just worn out. It needed a 
drive train, suspension and brake system rebuild plus new paint. The 
engine had not been started in over a decade. The car was one of those 
projects the buyer never got around to doing. But it did have a good 
complete hard top and excellent condition factory leather seats, the 
same colour as mine. Mine had really bad reproduction springs that was 
like sitting on a pad of jello. He offered it to me for $300 if I could 
get it off the property before the end of the week. $300 changed hands 
and I towed it home.  The body was nice and unrusted but in desperate 
need of new paint. The windscreen was cracked. The car was complete and 
an easy rebuild project. However I did not need a second TR3A. The 
hardtop came off to go on my car, the seats got swapped, and I traded my 
leather shift knob for the other car's walnut shift knob which I thought 
wold go better with my Motolita steering wheel. Then sold the TR for 
$3000 to someone in Menlo Park, CA who was eager to restore it.

Every once in a while the fickle finger of fate can tap you on the 
shoulder when you least expect it.

TeriAnn

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