[TR] Radiator Shroud

[Don Hiscock]

VHP 529, an Apple Green ex-works TR3A, is owned by a friend of mine in the
UK.  (He just returned from the 2019 TR Register Liège-Brescia-Liège Rally,
for those who have followed that -- in fact there were several American
sidescreen cars in Europe for that event, possibly correspondents on here?)
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-jR7PQ3n/0/bb5ff095/O/i-jR7PQ3n.jpg

The car has original works competition aluminum air deflectors inside the
shroud.  I've always liked these -- seems like a better design than the
crappy paperboard production version, although possibly with more risk of
radiator damage in a small bump than with cardboard.  They don't look like
they'd be hard to fab were one so inclined.
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-hxbzKSs/0/6c5a7e69/O/i-hxbzKSs.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mPG4VQX/0/0e755b25/O/i-mPG4VQX.jpg

Don
1962 TR3B TSF202L


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:48 PM TERRY SMITH <terryrs at comcast.net> wrote:

> When I restored the '3, I put in the usual cardboard shroud.  It lasted--I
> don't know--maybe three years?  Got caught several times in hard rain.
> Next, I bought another cardboard shroud, but this time I used the plastic
> from a garage sale shower wall.  It lasted--I don't know--maybe five years,
> then cracked apart.
>
>
> While installing a new electric fan, I took the time while I was in there
> to use the cardboard shroud to trace out a shroud using this time a floor
> mat I'd had around that goes underneath a chair on a hardwood floor (no
> little spikes on the bottom).  In this heat, the floor mat was entirely
> flexible and bent easily, though it won't at lower temps.  Couple of screws
> to hold it down and done is done.
>
>
> Looking forward to seeing how it does.  Gotta be better than cardboard.
>
>
> Meanwhile, with all these car mods, I'm thinking I could have been an
> engineer.  Just needed two things:  1)  more brains; and 3) more gray
> matter....
>
>
> :o)
>
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
>
> New Hampshire
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