Make:	Triumph
Model:	TR6
Year:	1974

I'd promised not to buy myself another car until I'd done up my recently purchased bachelor pad but.....

This was back in 1991!
My TR is a 1974 TR6. It had been imported from Texas and bodily was in very good condition, except for the floors, battery shelf (all horizonal bulkhead panels) and slight rust damage to the boot floor.
The paint and interior where shot and the engine didn't look to healthy, but what the heck.. other than that it looked OK!!

I started by removing the engine, gearbox and all the ancillaries in the engine bay. What was left of the interior was also stripped out. While the seat frames may be salvageable, the seat covers, carpets etc are beyond repair and will require replacement.
At this point, I decided to swap to right hand drive and have installed, as a temporary measure, a new RH steering rack and cut new holes for the column.
The horizontal panels that make up the bulkhead (battery box etc) have also been replaced.

That's about all that had been done, so it has sat in the garage, next to the MG waiting for me to get a spurt of enthusiasm.

Fast foward to 2010.....
I've nearly had this car for 20 years!
I decided that 2010 was the year to start work on it again.

So, what should I do first?
Back in 1993, I was very lucky to find a 'new' engine which was being auctioned off from the local college. This engine had never been in a car and had been donated to the college by Triumph back in the '70s.
It sat in it's own rig which included a radiator, alternator, battery etc, so that it could be fired up and run.
I used to regularly fire it up and run it for a good 15mins but over time this enthusiasm faded.
It had sat for a good 10 years and I had turned it over by hand a few times, but that was it.

I decided that the engine should be my first port of call .. I mean, how bad could it be? ... hmmmmmm

I connected up fuel and a battery, primed the fuel pump, only to find a pool of fuel on the floor. The seals in the pump had gone hard and needed replacement. One visit to Canley Classics later, new seals aquired, I changed the seals and tried again.
Fuel was now getting as far as the metering unit (MU) and then promptly decided to run out of the distributor pedestal... I could just tell that things were not going to go to plan.
MU removed, same again, all seals were hard and perished. Oh yeah, and while removing the MU, a couple of the injection hoses snapped. They'd all gone brittle too.
Ho hum....
One phone call to Malcolm at 'Prestige Developements and Injection' and all the seals and hoses were on their way.
Rebuilding the MU looked a bit of a daunting task, but I followed various instructions that I'd found on the web and all went well. Finally, the engine was running, with no fuel leaks and it didn't sound that bad either.
I'll most likely semi strip the engine before it goes anywhere near the car, but we'll see.

Next job was to remove the body from the chassis.
I'd promised myself that this would happen before the end of 2010.

Hmm.. Well..... on the 31st December 2010, my brother popped over and we did, indeed, remove the TR6 body from the chassis. Cutting it fine or what?

So, here we are in early 2011 with the TR6 body removed.
The chassis has been checked and the usual damage found to the differential mountings (the OSF differential mounting had completely 'let go') and the welds between the steering rack to suspension mounts.
The chassis is completely stripped and I've started to repair it.
I'll be adding strenghtening to the differential mounts, differential and suspension bridges, the front suspension mounts and between the rack and suspension mounts.
The plan is to then get the chassis blasted, etch primed and two pack painted.