Fony Pond Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 A wheel that I've always liked and occasionally seen on the odd TR7 and Spitfire, is the Dolomite Sprint alloy. Probably the nicest alloy Triumph produced and would suit your orange car down to the ground! Very period! Would look best with spacers on the back though to fill the rear arches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Thx for the effort that indeed looks nice but this car will get banded black steel wheels.And as it will get a Sprint engine I have a set of original TR7 alloys as spares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 I managed to lay my hands on a small but vital period part for the FHC, this undamaged early interior light.A bit of elbow grease should get it back to its former glory ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 16, 2016 Author Share Posted July 16, 2016 I received a letter from the Internal Revenue Office today.It contained the official statement that the 1976 FHC was first registered 40 years ago on October the 6th of this year.And as such it will be tax exempt from that date ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 Sadly haven't been able to work on the car over the past few months.But as the car is officially 40 years old since last week (6-10-2016 to be precise), it's a good time to look back ... As bought:Dismantling almost complete:Metalwork in progress:Paint preparations & painting:interior, trim etc.:The initial plan was to finish the restoration by the time she turned 40, and thus being tax exempt.But I abandoned that schedule well over a year ago. Initially caused by the paint preparations taking longer than planned.But also by work that had to be carried out (or actually is still in progress) on the Defender I bought well over a year ago as my daily driver ...Sure to be continued! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzo Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 I love this car, great colour! I think I asked previously but where did you get the new chassis plates? Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Quoted from Benzo ... I think I asked previously but where did you get the new chassis plates? ... I am quite sure you did earlier this year Quoted from Benzo Where did you get these made Theo? http://tr7beans.blogspot.nl/2016/01/fhc-resto-nr-45-numbers-game.html 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzo Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Quoted from Beans I am quite sure you did earlier this year http://tr7beans.blogspot.nl/2016/01/fhc-resto-nr-45-numbers-game.html 😉 Could your company make up another set of these easily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 The car specific numbers (VIN number/colour/trim) are machined the rest is printed.But it is one file and adapting that needs a bit of work.Since I ordered the plate they sent a few updates as a result of which I lost access to the printing part of the file 🤔As I am rather busy with none TR7 related stuff at the moment it might be a while before I get this sorted (dizzy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzo Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Quoted from Beans The car specific numbers (VIN number/colour/trim) are machined the rest is printed.But it is one file and adapting that needs a bit of work.Since I ordered the plate they sent a few updates as a result of which I lost access to the printing part of the file 🤔As I am rather busy with none TR7 related stuff at the moment it might be a while before I get this sorted (dizzy) I undertand that, my car is a long time in needing one aswell so maybe that will work out. Ill drop you a PM closer to the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 The reason why I haven't done much on the restoration of the FHC this year ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 At the closing of the year I am able to report some (slight) progress on the restoration, sorting parts for coating.Almost finished the first batch, the parts that will be powder coated. Hopefully I'll be able to drop these of early next year ...And started sorting parts that will be galvanised, including some spares for future use ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Work slowly resumes. Dismantled the car's heater in preparations for it rebuilt:Locking corroded pop rivets and preventing them from rotating, to help drilling them out;So more parts in need of a new coating; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted February 4, 2017 Author Share Posted February 4, 2017 Continued with sorting parts for the '76 FHC, and registering and recording them ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 The repairs to the air filter box's lid have been finished (welded up the hole including some dent removal).Which completes the first batch of parts that will be sent of on Wednesday for powder- or e-coating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 Dropped of the first batch off parts for powder- and e-coating yesterday, a small selection ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted May 10, 2017 Author Share Posted May 10, 2017 Most important part of the car finished and fitted, the loud pedal (evil) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fony Pond Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Very nice job! Could do with a set of those pedal grips myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted May 14, 2017 Author Share Posted May 14, 2017 Finished selecting parts for the '76 FHC that need a new coating ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Fitted the remaining pedals and bootlid to the car today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 The shape of things to come ... or how I applied some of the decals and striping I fabricated for the car ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Finished the refurbishment of the car's fuel tank. A few before and after pictures.The outside ...The inside ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 Carried out some smaller jobs on the car over the past few weeks, like fitting new foam backing to the heater's flaps ...Dropped of the heater's matrix to have it re-manufactured in alloy and with proper connections ...Continued sorting through the parts that need galvanising ...And cleaned the brake fluid reservoir while watching the Le Mans 24 Hours race ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 As ever great work Theo - attention to detail etc. is just fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Thx 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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